Animal Welfare Professionals

I feel like most of our animal care staff are pretty reliable about completing a monitoring sheet at cleaning time, but collecting other observations throughout the day is tough. I also feel like our volunteers are hit or miss about documenting their observations. A lot of them seem to prefer to verbally tell a staff member, which is good when it is an immediate issue that needs someone to intervene now, but if it is a smaller observation given while folks are in the middle of other stuff, it might not get written down.

One thing that I have been having success with is trying to have tracking sheets with specific behaviors, so folks can just check boxes and add notes instead of writing out descriptions and trying to decide how to describe what they saw. This definitely allows for less nuance, but means that we at least know a rough description of the behavior and who to follow up with for more details. I attached two examples if folks want a visual example.
#Behavior,TrainingandEnrichment
#PeopleManagement(includingVolunteerIntegration)