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Hey, I run a similar program at Animal-Angels Foundation in Central Alabama. We call our equivalent The Bridge, with crisis foster as a sub-program. We have hit this exact wall a few times in our first year and the answer has gotten clearer the more we ...

Julielani, Yes, I did mean the tools you suggested, envisioning them on a shelf on the wall. However, I much appreciated your expansion of "outside the kennel" as the place to start working on the transition. That's easy for me to do as a volunteer. ...

Hi Augusta, Thank you for trying the plan and for sharing the observation because I actually think it highlights something important about the emotional side of kennel return. My impression is similar to yours: the food may have helped the dog enter ...

Hi! We run a program called Shaina's Safe Haven, named after a volunteer who sadly passed away. The purpose of this program is to offer temporary foster care for people who are in a situation that does not allow them to care for their pets temporarily, ...

The New York Times reported today that HUD is circulating an internal memo that would dramatically narrow Fair Housing Act protections for assistance animals. Emotional support animals would be largely excluded. Service animals would face tighter scrutiny ...