Animal Welfare Professionals

Hello,

 I am curious about how you handle training and mitigation of animal bites to humans in your shelter.

• What training do you require before a staff, volunteer can handle an animal?
• Is there a difference on how you handle mitigating bites to staff, volunteers, and the public? 
• I would also like to know about post bite investigations.
• Do you also review the animal's behaviors, investigate FAS levels and factors? 

Hey!

Looks like this is a couple months old but it came up in my searches so here's what I've got:

All staff and volunteers are required to complete Fear Free Shelters and a handling 101 course taught by the behavior department. Staff participates in defensive handling training as well.

We treat human safety the same across the board whether staff or volunteers or public, however, obviously dogs with specific safety concerns are handled by staff only and they may be limited even further to "senior staff" or "supervisors" which would also include behavior team staff.

We have an incident report that is filled out for anything that poses a safety concern which obviously includes bites but also precursors to biting, growling/snarling/snapping being the most obvious things that would lead to this form being completed. This form allows us to generate the narrative for insurance claims if appropriate as well as gather the most pertinent details directly and timely. 

In addition to this we have (Thanks Dr Segurson) QR codes on each kennel that lead to a 2 question survey (name and FAS score) for all volunteers and staff to submit FAS data throughout the day. I am currently working on a way to better collect arousal level data that doesn't fall under FAS scoring.

Hope this helps some!

Hello,

 I am curious about how you handle training and mitigation of animal bites to humans in your shelter.

• What training do you require before a staff, volunteer can handle an animal?
• Is there a difference on how you handle mitigating bites to staff, volunteers, and the public? 
• I would also like to know about post bite investigations.
• Do you also review the animal's behaviors, investigate FAS levels and factors? 

Hey!

Looks like this is a couple months old but it came up in my searches so here's what I've got:

All staff and volunteers are required to complete Fear Free Shelters and a handling 101 course taught by the behavior department. Staff participates in defensive handling training as well.

We treat human safety the same across the board whether staff or volunteers or public, however, obviously dogs with specific safety concerns are handled by staff only and they may be limited even further to "senior staff" or "supervisors" which would also include behavior team staff.

We have an incident report that is filled out for anything that poses a safety concern which obviously includes bites but also precursors to biting, growling/snarling/snapping being the most obvious things that would lead to this form being completed. This form allows us to generate the narrative for insurance claims if appropriate as well as gather the most pertinent details directly and timely. 

In addition to this we have (Thanks Dr Segurson) QR codes on each kennel that lead to a 2 question survey (name and FAS score) for all volunteers and staff to submit FAS data throughout the day. I am currently working on a way to better collect arousal level data that doesn't fall under FAS scoring.

Hope this helps some!

Hello,

 I am curious about how you handle training and mitigation of animal bites to humans in your shelter.

• What training do you require before a staff, volunteer can handle an animal?
• Is there a difference on how you handle mitigating bites to staff, volunteers, and the public? 
• I would also like to know about post bite investigations.
• Do you also review the animal's behaviors, investigate FAS levels and factors? 

Just curious...we are a small rural shelter in SW Georgia.  We had everyone complete Fear Free training as well.  We aren't big enough for a "behavioral department" here.  Is there any other training we can do?  We have a fairly new staff (had to clean house!) who are great but comparatively inexperienced in some areas.  Looking for online training maybe?

Hey!

Looks like this is a couple months old but it came up in my searches so here's what I've got:

All staff and volunteers are required to complete Fear Free Shelters and a handling 101 course taught by the behavior department. Staff participates in defensive handling training as well.

We treat human safety the same across the board whether staff or volunteers or public, however, obviously dogs with specific safety concerns are handled by staff only and they may be limited even further to "senior staff" or "supervisors" which would also include behavior team staff.

We have an incident report that is filled out for anything that poses a safety concern which obviously includes bites but also precursors to biting, growling/snarling/snapping being the most obvious things that would lead to this form being completed. This form allows us to generate the narrative for insurance claims if appropriate as well as gather the most pertinent details directly and timely. 

In addition to this we have (Thanks Dr Segurson) QR codes on each kennel that lead to a 2 question survey (name and FAS score) for all volunteers and staff to submit FAS data throughout the day. I am currently working on a way to better collect arousal level data that doesn't fall under FAS scoring.

Hope this helps some!

Hello,

 I am curious about how you handle training and mitigation of animal bites to humans in your shelter.

• What training do you require before a staff, volunteer can handle an animal?
• Is there a difference on how you handle mitigating bites to staff, volunteers, and the public? 
• I would also like to know about post bite investigations.
• Do you also review the animal's behaviors, investigate FAS levels and factors? 

Just curious...we are a small rural shelter in SW Georgia.  We had everyone complete Fear Free training as well.  We aren't big enough for a "behavioral department" here.  Is there any other training we can do?  We have a fairly new staff (had to clean house!) who are great but comparatively inexperienced in some areas.  Looking for online training maybe?

Hey!

Looks like this is a couple months old but it came up in my searches so here's what I've got:

All staff and volunteers are required to complete Fear Free Shelters and a handling 101 course taught by the behavior department. Staff participates in defensive handling training as well.

We treat human safety the same across the board whether staff or volunteers or public, however, obviously dogs with specific safety concerns are handled by staff only and they may be limited even further to "senior staff" or "supervisors" which would also include behavior team staff.

We have an incident report that is filled out for anything that poses a safety concern which obviously includes bites but also precursors to biting, growling/snarling/snapping being the most obvious things that would lead to this form being completed. This form allows us to generate the narrative for insurance claims if appropriate as well as gather the most pertinent details directly and timely. 

In addition to this we have (Thanks Dr Segurson) QR codes on each kennel that lead to a 2 question survey (name and FAS score) for all volunteers and staff to submit FAS data throughout the day. I am currently working on a way to better collect arousal level data that doesn't fall under FAS scoring.

Hope this helps some!

Hello,

 I am curious about how you handle training and mitigation of animal bites to humans in your shelter.

• What training do you require before a staff, volunteer can handle an animal?
• Is there a difference on how you handle mitigating bites to staff, volunteers, and the public? 
• I would also like to know about post bite investigations.
• Do you also review the animal's behaviors, investigate FAS levels and factors? 

Just curious...we are a small rural shelter in SW Georgia.  We had everyone complete Fear Free training as well.  We aren't big enough for a "behavioral department" here.  Is there any other training we can do?  We have a fairly new staff (had to clean house!) who are great but comparatively inexperienced in some areas.  Looking for online training maybe?

Hey!

Looks like this is a couple months old but it came up in my searches so here's what I've got:

All staff and volunteers are required to complete Fear Free Shelters and a handling 101 course taught by the behavior department. Staff participates in defensive handling training as well.

We treat human safety the same across the board whether staff or volunteers or public, however, obviously dogs with specific safety concerns are handled by staff only and they may be limited even further to "senior staff" or "supervisors" which would also include behavior team staff.

We have an incident report that is filled out for anything that poses a safety concern which obviously includes bites but also precursors to biting, growling/snarling/snapping being the most obvious things that would lead to this form being completed. This form allows us to generate the narrative for insurance claims if appropriate as well as gather the most pertinent details directly and timely. 

In addition to this we have (Thanks Dr Segurson) QR codes on each kennel that lead to a 2 question survey (name and FAS score) for all volunteers and staff to submit FAS data throughout the day. I am currently working on a way to better collect arousal level data that doesn't fall under FAS scoring.

Hope this helps some!

Hello,

 I am curious about how you handle training and mitigation of animal bites to humans in your shelter.

• What training do you require before a staff, volunteer can handle an animal?
• Is there a difference on how you handle mitigating bites to staff, volunteers, and the public? 
• I would also like to know about post bite investigations.
• Do you also review the animal's behaviors, investigate FAS levels and factors? 

Hello,

 I am curious about how you handle training and mitigation of animal bites to humans in your shelter.

• What training do you require before a staff, volunteer can handle an animal?
• Is there a difference on how you handle mitigating bites to staff, volunteers, and the public? 
• I would also like to know about post bite investigations.
• Do you also review the animal's behaviors, investigate FAS levels and factors?