Sentences with phrase «current animal response»
For more than 50 years, forerunners of Shedd's current Animal Response Team have assisted partner organizations whose core missions focus on the rescue and rehabilitation of animals in need of urgent care.
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The researchers then ran tiny currents across the volunteers» skin to monitor how much they perspired as they looked at pictures of sunsets, cute animals, fist fights and vomit — pictures already known to evoke an automatic sweat response.
Not content with experimenting on animals alone, he began to use his own body making incisions in his own flesh, and adding chemical compounds or electric current to gauge the response of his muscles.
• Past President and current member of the Connecticut Animal Control Association • Member of the National Coalition developing response plans for FEMA in the event of national disasters (she does not work for FEMA) • Consultant on the Compendium of Animal Rabies Prevention and Control Committee (she is the only lay person on the panel) • Evaluator for Animal Control Departments throughout the United States, ensuring compliance with National Standards • Board of Directors of the New England Animal Control / Humane Academy in New Hampshire currently serving as Assistant Director & Instructor • National Task Force for Animal Hoarding • New England and State of Connecticut Task Force for Animal Fighting • Member of the New England Stock Dog Association • Member of Curriculum Advisory Committee, University of New Hampshire, Thompson School of Applied Science Teaching Experience: • Cruelty Investigation Instructor for Police Officers and Animal Control Officers • Certified as an Instructor to teach at the FBI and Police Academy • Teaches Cruelty Investigation, Criminal Law and First Aid to Police, Animal Control and Humane Officers at the University of New Hampshire • National and Connecticut Animal Control Association • Numerous Kennel Clubs and Schools Author — National Animal Control Association Training Guide — Disaster Planning American Kennel Club • Certified Canine Good Citizen (CGC) evaluator • Completed Obedience requirements for becoming an AKC Obedience Judge.
Current class offerings include Companion Animal Welfare, An Introduction to Shelter Medicine, Advanced Shelter Medicine, Disaster Response, and the Clinical Rotation in Shelter Medicine: Principles & Practice.
a. Develop training on animal cruelty and the link between cruelty and domestic violence for law enforcement personnel; b. Expand the current ACO training curriculum; c. Train and educate judges, appropriate court personnel, and prosecutors about animal cruelty; d. Educate veterinarians about recognizing animal cruelty and understanding current law; e. Create a state multidisciplinary team for animal hoarding that would develop an emergency response system and oversee a task force to focus on early intervention of hoarding including mental health counseling in all animal hoarding cases; and create a Department of Mental Health and Department of Corrections forensic assessment protocol for early intervention, sentencing, treatment, and rehabilitation; and f. Develop and promote animal cruelty prevention, identification, training and screening tools among pet service providers, associations, and the commercial pet industry.
Current research focusing on terrestrial animals includes several studies on the island fox, one on the role of deer mice in affecting vegetation community recovery, and one on the response of lizards to the removal of rats on Anacapa.
Mat edits the Business and Energy sections of TreeHugger, as well as writing about resource consumption, animal welfare issues, and the response of religious communities to our current environmental problems.