Animal Welfare Professionals

Suggestions on informative and easily digestible resources to train shelter employees/volunteers in the following:

-Shelter stress and how to support dogs

-Basic training/positive reinforcement

Resources with data supporting their stance would be amazing! To convince the employees that might be skeptical of methods that are possibly more time consuming/seemingly effortful, but more humane approaches (i.e., click for no bark vs. putting a shock collar on a barking dog)

Thank you!!

#Behavior,TrainingandEnrichment

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Foster

Volunteer
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Hi Karee,

Just wanted to put some resources here that may be helpful:

• Dog Handling in the Shelter (free MU course)
• Trauma & Animal Behavior (recording)
• Ethical Application of LIMA (recording)
• What Laboratory Studies May Tell Us About Stress in a Dog Shelter (recording)

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Kelly Duer
Senior Community Solutions Specialist
Maddie's Fund
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-20-2023 05:28 AM
From: Karee Anderson
Subject: Shelter employee/volunteer training

Suggestions on informative and easily digestible resources to train shelter employees/volunteers in the following:

-Shelter stress and how to support dogs

-Basic training/positive reinforcement

Resources with data supporting their stance would be amazing! To convince the employees that might be skeptical of methods that are possibly more time consuming/seemingly effortful, but more humane approaches (i.e., click for no bark vs. putting a shock collar on a barking dog)

Thank you!!

#Behavior,TrainingandEnrichment

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Foster

Volunteer
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