Animal Welfare Professionals

This is a PDF of the presentation slides from a great session I attended during the ASPCA-AAWA Research Forum in November 2021 called "Measuring & Minimizing Sound in Shelters to Improve Cat Welfare". The presenter was Bailey Eagan from the University of British Columbia Animal Welfare Program. This presentation was SO good and included a lot of actionable items to help reduce stress for all the animals in your care (and people too). I highly recommend it! The presentation touched on sources of noise like dishes, doors, cabinets, human voices, and cage reverberations and included ways to mitigate them.  A lot of the recommendations can help both cats and dogs.

The session is available to watch for free at ASPCAOnline (Again, I highly recommend!).  Here's how:

• go to https://www.aspcaonline.org/#/catalog
• if you don't already have an account on ASPCAOnline, sign up for a free account to get access
• if you're not brought back to that catalog page after you register, go back to https://www.aspcaonline.org/#/catalog 
• select ASPCA-AAWA Research Forum
• click "Enroll" under "Measuring & Minimizing Sound in Shelters To..."