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RE: Weaning Kittens from their motherWhen do most people start weaning kittens?

Posted By Amelia Pham 04-01-2024 08:47 PM
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Hi Robin At our shelter, we tend to get a lot of bottle baby kittens that comes in without mom. Our foster start weaning at 4-5 weeks. When transition the kittens, we ask the fosters to do gruel which is formula mix with pate wet food. Kinda like apple sauce paste. The first week, is in a bottle ...

RE: Hoarded Dog Resources

Posted By Amelia Pham 04-01-2024 08:42 PM
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Hi Catherine We have had a few hoarding case of different species. (Dogs, cats, rabbits, and guinea pigs) We rely on fosters to help use socialize the animals. Especially the dogs. We had to separate them to get them better social and get fosters that understood the behavioral the dogs have. I ...

RE: Online Adoption Applications

Posted By Amelia Pham 09-17-2023 07:30 PM
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Hi Trina. We use shelterluv and it's amazing. We do applications, adoptions, impounds, vet/tech exam, meds, and notes all on shelterluv. It's been a great change for our shelter. ------------------------------ Amelia Pham Assistant Manager WAGS PET ADOPTION Westminster CA ----------- ...

RE: What are your thoughts/questions on Neuter Before Adoption?

Posted By Amelia Pham 09-13-2023 12:38 AM
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For our shelter, we spay/neuter, microchip, deworm/flea med everyone before they go home. We have surgeons that's to our facility to do spay/neuter. We are so grateful to be able to do that. ------------------------------ Amelia Pham Assistant Manager WAGS PET ADOPTION Westminster CA - ...

RE: Big Dog Adoptions

Posted By Amelia Pham 09-09-2023 04:41 PM
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Thank you Maggie! I will reach out to them as well. ------------------------------ Amelia Pham Assistant Manager WAGS PET ADOPTION Westminster CA ------------------------------

RE: Big Dog Adoptions

Posted By Amelia Pham 09-09-2023 10:02 AM
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Gweneth is the first one in the picture. She's a 2 years old working German shepherd. We tested her for search and rescue but because she's not dog friendly, they had denied her. She did great with everything else though Sky is the last picture. She was an owner surrender and she has been ...

RE: Big Dog Adoptions

Posted By Amelia Pham 09-08-2023 12:29 PM
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Thank you! That's Gweneth. She's a working dog. She loves to work and doesn't really care about human interaction much but wants to work for you. ------------------------------ Amelia Pham Assistant Manager WAGS PET ADOPTION Westminster CA ------------------------------

RE: Big Dog Adoptions

Posted By Amelia Pham 09-08-2023 12:19 PM
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We do have a couple of pure bread shepherd that we have been trying to find homes for or rescue to pull. We have been reaching out to the local rescues. Most haven't responded or when they did, they're full. I will have our team to reach out out of state ones. These are the main 3 German shepherd we ...

Big Dog Adoptions

Posted By Amelia Pham 09-08-2023 07:19 AM
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Hello Everyone, In the last few months we have had a high number of intakes (lost/found) and owner surrender dogs. Most of the dogs are big dogs. (40 pounds and over). We have had to get creative to housed them in our facility by crating them all over the shelter and using our emptied cat rooms ...

RE: staffing levels and job descriptions

Posted By Amelia Pham 08-23-2023 01:06 AM
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We are an exotic shelter. (G. Pigs, rabbits, reptiles, and birds) We service 3 cities. The cities has ACO Officers that picks up lost/found pets and brings them to us. we usually have an intake of 2100-2800 animals a year. We have 1 CEO, 1 director of operations, 1 Assistant manager, 1 shift ...

RE: What's the best way to attract and retain good fosters?

Posted By Amelia Pham 08-23-2023 12:52 AM
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Our facility is shelter based and we really realized on our fosters to help out our pets on property. We supply medical and medical for our fosters. Our kitten foster program has been doing well the last couple of years. As one of the foster coordinator, I have learn when I remember the foster's ...

RE: Foster to Adopt Programs

Posted By Amelia Pham 08-22-2023 11:23 PM
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Hi Jennifer we have started our dog foster program this year. It started out pretty slow but it has started picking up more. We provide food, medical, and a create for our foster dogs. We also use our social media (Facebook, instagram, and TikTok) to post for foster needs. That has help us get ...

RE: Cardboard Cat Carriers

Posted By Amelia Pham 08-22-2023 11:01 PM
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We do get the same problem as well. We do have card board carriers available for purchase for the cats going home. We get ours from MWI. ------------------------------ Amelia Pham Assistant Manager WAGS Pet Adoption Westminster ------------------------------

RE: Nursing canine & puppies

Posted By Amelia Pham 07-04-2023 11:13 PM
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Hi there At our shelter, we feed mama wet and dry food mix together with some water added to it. We do it 3-4 times a day. We mainly get Iams puppy. We make sure mama stays hydrated. If mama is skinny and not at a good weight, we do weekly weight check on mama and puppies to make sure no one ...

RE: Fundraising Ideas / Funding

Posted By Amelia Pham 06-25-2023 10:24 PM
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Our shelter do a lot of social media to get our community involved. We did a silent auction fundraiser and got local businesses involved which also promoted their business too. The big step is getting your community involved in your rescue. Letting them know what your mission is. ------- ...

RE: Foster Retention

Posted By Amelia Pham 06-18-2023 11:53 AM
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Hi Pauline For our foster program, we use social media to get new fosters. We have start to do fun post to help get our pets adopted. For examples, we do Foster Friday post. We post any pets we have in fostering that is available for adoption. We also post pets on Friday if they need a foster. ...

RE: Foster Strategies

Posted By Amelia Pham 06-18-2023 11:44 AM
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Hi there. Our foster program has improved a lot in the last few years. We have created a Facebook group page for just fosters. On this page they help each other out and can ask questions for us to answers. Sometimes our senior foster parent will answer as well. We also only limit foster to no more ...

RE: Finding Qualified Board Members / Organizational Overhaul

Posted By Amelia Pham 06-12-2023 09:17 PM
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Hi there. So sorry that you're going through this. I'm not a board member but I am one of the managers. We also have a hard time keeping staffs as well. We had to use social media a lot to promote for everything. That has been the best help for us. You can look us on Facebook or instagram to get some ...

RE: How can you get better involvement from your community

Posted By Amelia Pham 06-08-2023 02:34 AM
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We use social media a lot to get our communities involved. A lot of our community likes to do volunteer but can't do physical work. We have found ways to get them involved. We have Girl Scout tours, reading to cats/rabbits programs, calm canine, and feline friends are some of the volunteers opportunities ...

RE: Dog Adoptions: Increased, Decreased or Flat?

Posted By Amelia Pham 06-06-2023 07:33 PM
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Our adoptions are also down for all animals on property. We are trying to do mange intake at our shelter by helping citizens hold on to found pets before they drop it off at our facility. We have the citizen send us a picture of the found/lost pets and we do a courtesy post. We also have a waiting list ...