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RE: Return to kennel/dog run resistance and handling difficulties

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 05-24-2026 07:11 AM
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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. I will continue to share this discussion with shelter ...

RE: Return to kennel/dog run resistance and handling difficulties

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 05-22-2026 06:50 AM
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Thank you, Julielani, for sharing your flyers. Just yesterday, while volunteering at the local shelter, I had a dog that reluctantly approached its kennel. I was able to use the circle, reset, repeat method to get it to walk in willingly, but once in, it wanted out. The food I had was not to its liking ...

RE: Trauma-Informed Owner Surrender

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 04-15-2026 12:36 PM
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Debi, you wrote so eloquently and with such compassion about your experience and insight. I wish everyone could read your story. ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ------------------------------

RE: Building a Regional Animal Welfare Collaboration Network

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 03-29-2026 08:48 AM
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Augusta@ducielrouge.com Thanks ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ------------------------------

RE: Building a Regional Animal Welfare Collaboration Network

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 03-29-2026 08:29 AM
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Hi, BJ, I had the same problem that Delores had. I think I just signed up for more information again. Augusta ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ------------------------------

RE: I keep coming back to the same question: what are we actually doing about prevention?

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 03-21-2026 03:55 PM
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BJ What you shared is amazing detail that drill down to address real-time need, not imagined. Are you able to share your platforms or when are you going to roll out nationally? I'm going to share with some local folks. We too find there is not enough communication among all the stakeholders. Augusta ...

RE: I keep coming back to the same question: what are we actually doing about prevention?

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 03-20-2026 07:23 AM
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Hi, BJ, Could you share more about the paragraph below that you posted earlier? I'm curious what this looks like. That is why we started by mapping the actual pathways to intake in our seven-county service area before we designed programs around them. ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ...

RE: Dog Testing

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 03-16-2026 07:53 AM
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Bonnie, I'm glad you're evaluating dog compatibility. As I read your description about how your shelter introduce dogs, I realized it might be truncated due to space. In my experience, letting two dogs approach each other face to face on leash is a recipe for failure. Would you mind adding a little ...

RE: Caring in a Crisis: Pet & Human First Aid Essentials

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 03-11-2026 08:02 AM
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Great idea. The devil is in the details. ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ------------------------------

RE: Co-housing during detox and recovery

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 03-04-2026 10:01 AM
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Hi, Vickie, Father Joe's is the only place I know that lets pets accompany owners during detox, other than a private pay in malibu. I have already registered for the conference. Can't wait for presentation and Q and A. ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ----------------------------- ...

RE: Co-housing during detox and recovery

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 03-02-2026 11:07 AM
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Thanks, Shelly, I am in touch. I'm still in the collecting data stage. ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ------------------------------

Co-housing during detox and recovery

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 02-27-2026 07:06 AM
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Does anyone know of detox and recovery programs that allow pets to stay with patients? What about ESAs? Can anyone recommend papers on the subject or an expert to talk to? ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ------------------------------

RE: Caring in a Crisis: Pet & Human First Aid Essentials

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 02-27-2026 06:55 AM
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I would love to see policy and procedures for conducting street clinics. We currently offer vaccination clinics, but I would like to see us expand into more complete exams and treatments where possible. ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ------------------------------

RE: Upcoming Webcast: Social Work Guidelines in Animal Welfare Settings

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 12-03-2025 12:39 PM
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I was out of town for this wonderful discussion and will go look for the recording. I have a question for anyone who might be in this thread. I'm fostering a dog right now hose unsheltered owner just went into four months of "treatment." My nonprofit is scrambling to find for months of emergency ...

RE: Recent Studies Uncover More Ways Pets Aid in Combating Depression

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 07-22-2025 11:53 AM
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While we're on this subject, are there any studies on the impact of separating pets from their owners, along the lines of separating children from their parents? I know there are shelter studies about pets living in shelters, but i'm not sure I've seen any how about the liminal zone between surviving ...

RE: Pet Registration

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 06-18-2025 05:40 PM
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Pls consider whether licensing helps, hinders or is neutral for your missions. What is the cost to you including follow up when license expires and to pet owner to get the license, including fines and fees? Are such costs equitably distributed and will licensing benefit public health? Who ...

RE: Protecting Humans & Non-Human Animals from Poisoning

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 03-27-2025 07:10 AM
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I'm glad the poster reminds people about the many dangerous products we have in our home. I realize everything can't be listed but I wonder if products such as marijuana and illegal substances have a place. It seems like there are marijuana stores on every corner in my city. ------------------------------ ...

RE: Elderly Pets/Elderly Humans

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 03-01-2025 07:25 AM
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Any estate planning lawyer can help you do this. I have also added instructions for my personal representative (what the person who handles the estate is called in NM). Few of my senior friends have pre-arranged end of life affairs, much less to include pets. This is something that rescues and even government ...

RE: Elderly Pets/Elderly Humans

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 02-28-2025 09:08 PM
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Over the past couple of decades I'm sure I've read about a couple of places, one of them may have been in Texas, where you could pay them to take care of your dogs for the rest of their lives. I assume it was expensive. I wonder if they're still around. ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ...

RE: How can the health of homeless pet owners and their companions be improved?

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 02-05-2025 06:58 PM
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T', Christina and Shoshana have been a good source of information, but I don't think I asked them this question. I plan to attend meeting which I didn't have on my calendar. ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ------------------------------

RE: How can the health of homeless pet owners and their companions be improved?

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 02-05-2025 06:58 PM
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T', Christina and Shoshana have been a good source of information, but I don't think I asked them this question. I plan to attend meeting which I didn't have on my calendar. ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ------------------------------

RE: How can the health of homeless pet owners and their companions be improved?

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 02-05-2025 05:00 AM
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I'll start with a question. I'm working as a volunteer with a nonprofit that is new to administering a large 600+ bed municipal coshelter with 44 dogs. Because people and dogs are in very close quarters (and currently without crates), the staff has asked for muzzles for the residents, which have ...

RE: Welcome & Introduce Yourself to the One Health Community!

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 12-15-2024 08:22 AM
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Kudos to for stepping in to solve your local animal problems. Have you partnered with other organizations and your community and where the gaps are? Would working with an established organization or agency double your effectiveness? If there is no one to partner with, pick a tiny chunk and see if you ...

Co sheltering

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 12-13-2024 06:00 AM
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Can someone can help me find pet policies for a co-shelter or co-housing environment? A large city homeless shelter wants to revise its pet policy for the residents. Thank you. #PetSupportServices* #Rehoming ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ------------------------------

RE: Welcome & Introduce Yourself to the One Health Community!

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 12-03-2024 07:29 AM
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Yes, T'! I'm going to add this to my presentation. Thank you! ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ------------------------------

RE: Welcome & Introduce Yourself to the One Health Community!

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 12-03-2024 07:28 AM
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Has anybody started looping in environmental and ecosystem health when addressing One Health, because, after all, that is the third circle? For example poor human and pet Sanitation contributes to polluted waters. Polluted waters affect the health of wildlife, humans and our companion animals. How ...

RE: Welcome & Introduce Yourself to the One Health Community!

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 11-27-2024 04:03 AM
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This forum has accumulated amazing talent and resources since I last checked in. I have to make a short presentation to the public about HAB and wanted to loop in One Health. I'm struggling a bit with the environmental side of the equation, ie, how to simply explain the benefits of addressing the needs ...

RE: Understanding Human Homelessness Response Systems for Better Animal Welfare Advocacy & Program Design (Camp Maddie: Pet-Inclusive Housing)

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 11-14-2024 07:09 AM
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I suspect the answer comes from fully embracing of the concept of keeping people and pets together. To get there perhaps access to resources to help with behavior and training for pets and Veterinary Care might help alleviate anxieties on the part of the administration. There is a domestic violence shelter ...

RE: Understanding Human Homelessness Response Systems for Better Animal Welfare Advocacy & Program Design (Camp Maddie: Pet-Inclusive Housing)

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 11-14-2024 07:03 AM
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This question would be good to ask from the profit-making point of view if we're talking with private enterprise, as well as budget saving for governments. Bringing in the One Health point of view to include environmental and medical costs would mirror what is being done to demonstrate the damage that ...

RE: Boarding kennels...board & train

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 10-30-2024 07:35 AM
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The best of all win-win worlds is to be a boarding kennel combined with a rescue. They are out there. Ask the industry voice, IBPSA ( international Boarding and Pet Services Association), to write up a request for help in its magazine to see if kennels will respond with advice how to get a collaboration ...

RE: Welcome & Introduce Yourself to the One Health Community!

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 10-22-2024 08:14 AM
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T', In response to your question about research with inmates, can we expand the idea to recovery programs that include clients' pets? I know of a nonprofit just starting to set up kennels so that clients have a safe place for their dogs while they are in detox. The plan is also to extend the care and ...

RE: Welcome & Introduce Yourself to the One Health Community!

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 10-12-2024 03:00 PM
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Hi, Stacey, I'm glad to see you are still working with your awesome program. I moved from Patterson and am now in Albuquerque. Have you thought of coming here? Our community is gearing up the One Health model with the medical school, vet and animal welfare, unsheltered community partners and more. We ...

RE: Maddie's Insights webcast October 10, 2024: Behavioral Euthanasia: Just the Facts!

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 10-11-2024 06:03 PM
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Thank you for those resources. I have a friend who's going through the decision for her dog and I want to be supportive of either direction, while not getting bitten. ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ------------------------------

RE: Maddie's Insights webcast October 10, 2024: Behavioral Euthanasia: Just the Facts!

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 10-11-2024 02:21 PM
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Hi, Miranda, what advice would you give owners who are trying to make the decision whether to or whether or not to BE? ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ------------------------------

RE: Looking for cosheltering information

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 08-21-2024 07:29 PM
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Thank you. I will check them out. I believe she was on there twice so it'll make it easy to find what I'm looking for and makes more sense than one of the Maddie's fund meetings. ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ------------------------------

Looking for cosheltering information

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 08-20-2024 12:55 PM
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Does anyone remember where a Zoom participant on one of the forums was from New York city and shared what she did in a cosheltering project in Brooklyn? I can't remember where I heard her speak. Thanks. #AccesstoCare #CommunityPartnerships* #Medicine,SurgeryandSterilization #OrganizationalManagement ...

Co sheltering

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 08-20-2024 12:48 PM
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This is a long shot but does anyone remember where a New York city official who was working with coshelters, I think in Brooklyn, joined one of the Maddie's Fund zoom? I don't know why I'm thinking here but I join this zoom the most so maybe... Thanks. #CommunityPartnerships* ------------------------------ ...

RE: City water and sewer

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 05-12-2024 06:43 AM
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When I lived in CA, we were connected directly to Stanislaus County system. You might also look into Pet Camp in San Francisco. I remember that they said they had an upgraded system that turned waste into gray water or biosolids. It was a while ago and I'm foggy on details but they were aiming to be ...

RE: Hyperarousal in Dogs

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 04-17-2024 07:23 AM
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This is a topic dear to my heart as I've fostered 2 hyperaroused dogs (one was finger painting too) on the beh euth list who, of course, were lovely, adoptable dogs once in a different environment. I would welcome info that addressed what shelter volunteers and staff can do to find the inner best dog, ...

RE: Puppy protocols

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 04-16-2024 12:37 PM
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Yes! Yes! Yes! Would someone or group please take charge of creating a puppy protocol. It makes me nuts to see do not walk signs for all pups under 6 months at my shelter. They can only stay on concrete to potty. Surely we can calibrate risk given vaccinations, space to walk, age, presence of active ...

RE: Meeting dogs' fundamental needs w/ Michael Shikashio (Camp Maddie: Behavior Edition Day 2)

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 03-28-2024 09:33 PM
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Hi, Tom, can you tell me the name of your podcast. Michael is always a treat to listen too. ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ------------------------------

RE: Puppy protocols

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 03-26-2024 07:32 AM
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Hi, Kathleen, I would love to have a copy of the protocol you referenced. Not being able to take even 4 to 6 month shelter puppies that are on the adoption floor out for walks has been frustrating. Sheila Segurson's behavior group briefly discussed the topic last year, but clearly more data is needed ...

RE: When is a good time to implement a shock (vibration only) collar for a newly adopted dog?

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 01-18-2024 07:40 AM
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A simple answer re use of electronic collars is never to use them to solve a behavior problem closely tied to strong feelings and emotions, like fear, stress, anxiety, anger. I'd hire a qualified behavior consultant (go to CCPDT, IAABC or other certifying bodies to give you better management tools, more ...

Do any shelters have dog enrichment/dog park areas that is shared with the public?

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 01-08-2024 07:50 AM
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A group of shelter staff members, volunteers and conservation orgs wants to convert empty land contiguous to the shelter to an ecosystem restoration area that can double as a dog walk and enrichment space as well as possibly an open, or partially open, low-impact space for the surrounding industrial ...

RE: What are your thoughts about this paper about behavior differences between legislated and non-legislated dog breeds?

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 11-03-2023 08:50 PM
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Thanks for sharing this paper. I had already read it, but it would be good to explore what it says and more about what is missing. I think it is clear from this research and others that carrying certain breed genetics cannot predict aggressive behavior. To Lauren's point, I too would like to see ...

RE: Seeking finder-foster bite incident stats

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 06-26-2023 11:15 AM
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Here is the response from my shelter director. Misha defines field foster as: Field fosters are strays found in the field that we place with that person for foster care. This is different than animals in our facility that we place in foster care. We have had no field foster bites. Misha Goodman Animal ...

RE: Dog Foster Program

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 06-26-2023 06:01 AM
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As a shelter and foster volunteer, I'd like more suggestions about what I can do to promote my fosters in my social media and community channels, outside of the shelter. Thanks for starting this thread. ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ------------------------------

RE: Seeking finder-foster bite incident stats

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 06-09-2023 06:54 AM
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Thank you, Elise, for exploring this issue. We do need intentional policy and procedures to help the public help keep pets out of shelters, when possible. Perhaps your findings will be able to create new actions to reduce shelter intake and increase return to home. ------------------------------ ...

RE: Community Conversations - 5/15/23 - Providing Free Veterinary Care to Pets of the Unhoused

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 05-16-2023 12:48 PM
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Another org that works mostly in the West to provide vet care for pets of low income and unsheltered folks is ElleVetPeoject.org. ------------------------------ Augusta Farley ------------------------------

RE: Community Conversations - 5/15/23 - Providing Free Veterinary Care to Pets of the Unhoused

Posted By Augusta Farley (She/Her) 05-15-2023 12:06 PM
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I think I cried 3 times. You nailed it and ending with the kindness message was brilliant. Kwane, I'm so proud of what you are doing. I knew you were special from way back when you started your career at Stan Co. You have to visit Albuquerque to fire us up. (I moved back last year.) Augusta ...