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Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter
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RE: June 2025 Giveaway: From Neonates to Feisty Felines - Share Your Kitten Stories!

Posted By Katie Pauli 06-04-2025 03:28 PM
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Kirby came into the shelter with terrible URI and eye inflammation. We were not sure at first if we would be able to save his eyes or if we would need to look into removal surgery. He had no appetite and his quality of life was poor. I had a conversation with him and told him that he had to choose life ...

RE: May 2025 Giveaway: Everyday Leadership in Animal Well-Being

Posted By Katie Pauli 05-04-2025 02:31 PM
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🐾 What does leadership look like in your daily work, even if "leader" isn't in your title? We have a leadership team that meets weekly to check in and make sure that staffs concerns are addressed or to monitor how animals are doing in our shelter. I have been a part of the leadership ...

RE: April 2025 Giveaway: Celebrating Maddie and the Pets Who Inspire Us!

Posted By Katie Pauli 04-03-2025 01:02 PM
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RE: April 2025 Giveaway: Celebrating Maddie and the Pets Who Inspire Us!

Posted By Katie Pauli 04-03-2025 01:02 PM
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🐾 Is there a pet in your life (past or present) who has inspired you? My current dog Winnie inspires me every day. She was a street dog in Texas that was brought to Montana on a plane. She was curled up in a ball and was so terrified of everything at 8 months old. Fast forward 5 years later and ...

RE: March 2025 Giveaway: Co-Sheltering & Keeping Pets and People Together

Posted By Katie Pauli 03-10-2025 09:10 AM
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We have a safety net fostering program that allows owned pets to stay in foster homes for up to 90 days. I do require that we spay/neuter, microchip and vaccinate the animal before it goes into foster but we will cover that cost for the owner. I try and stay in regular contact with the owner so I know ...

RE: Dying Kitten In Foster After-Hours

Posted By Katie Pauli 03-10-2025 08:53 AM
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Hello! 2 year ago we partnered with a 24hour emergency vet that is in our town that will allow fosters to drop off fading kittens for emergency euthanasia or if possible, life saving care. Then I connect with the emergency vet the next day and will either pick up the body for panleuk testing ...

RE: Foster Care Reminders – What System Do You Use?

Posted By Katie Pauli 02-26-2025 08:49 AM
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I use outlook and Calendly ( used to use appointmentthing). This way I can send a reminder through email with the link and then fosters can sign up without the back and forth of when they need to get in for an appointment. The only error we sometimes run into is time zone but that seems to be fixed using ...

RE: February 2025 Giveaway: How Are You Supporting Pets and People in Your Community?

Posted By Katie Pauli 02-17-2025 01:46 PM
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I like that you are partnering with your Kitty Cafe for supplies! We have one starting up soon near us and that is a great idea. ------------------------------ Katie Pauli Foster Coordinator Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter MT ------------------------------

RE: February 2025 Giveaway: How Are You Supporting Pets and People in Your Community?

Posted By Katie Pauli 02-17-2025 01:40 PM
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Hello! We thankfully have several options for helping people and their pets at Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter in Billings, MT. PALS Program- A low to no cost program for seniors to get them supplies, medical care and transport for their pets Safety Net Foster Program- 30 to 90 ...

RE: Single Kitten Syndrome

Posted By Katie Pauli 03-25-2024 10:12 AM
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Hello! So we send out singletons to foster all the time as we do not want to mix litters for health reasons. I also have fosters who do not have another other animals in their home so are raised as the only kittens. The biggest thing is socialization and exposure to a lot of different sights, sounds ...

RE: Temporary fosters for owned pets- keeping pets and families together

Posted By Katie Pauli 02-13-2024 09:53 AM
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Hi August! We started a safety net fostering program last year. So far we have been working with other organizations in our area that can flag people in need and reach out to us. We have formal paperwork they fill out and then we start with a fostering period of 30 days. I reach out at 15 days and ...

RE: Who are the Parvo / Panleukopenia experts in the veterinary or science fields?

Posted By Katie Pauli 01-28-2024 10:25 AM
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https://sheltermedicine.wisc.edu/library/resources/feline-panleukopenia Our shelter works with Wisconsin Shelter Medicine and this is their resource page for panleukopenia! ------------------------------ Katie Pauli Foster Coordinator Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter MT --------- ...

RE: Chameleon new foster window

Posted By Katie Pauli 01-28-2024 09:46 AM
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Hi August! We use Chameleon for our shelter but this is the first I am hearing about a Foster Window. I am the foster coordinator so am very interested. Do you know what the purpose of the Foster Window is? Then I may have suggestions or ideas! ------------------------------ Katie Pauli Foster ...

RE: Foster Program Struggles

Posted By Katie Pauli 01-08-2024 11:41 AM
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Hello! I am the foster coordinator for YVAS in Billings, MT and have been in this position since October 2022. Here are my responses to your question: How do you keep from always asking your same few standby fosters to take animals so that you don't risk burning them out? Honesty ...

Foster Appreciation Program

Posted By Katie Pauli 12-04-2023 08:54 AM
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I started a Foster Appreciation program based off of how many animals my fosters look after over the year or how many days they have animals in foster. Usually it is a hand written card and then a coffee card, or buttons or other small tokens of gratitude. I did have one foster voice concern about ...

Grief Counseling or Education for Foster Coordinator

Posted By Katie Pauli 10-12-2023 09:12 AM
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Hi guys! I am the foster coordinator for an animal shelter in Billings, MT. My director wanted me to look into grief counseling classes or grief resources to see if I can learn some different ways to be there for my fosters but not take their grief on as my own. Do you know of any resources or have ...

RE: Attracting Fosters for dogs that aren't animal social

Posted By Katie Pauli 03-27-2023 02:50 PM
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This is a hard find for a lot of organizations. I market these dogs as needing socialization. I either reach out individually to fosters or I post on our foster facebook page asking for help. I am very honest that this dog has behavioral hurdles but may react very different in a house hold situation. ...