A nifty study was published this year that focuses on the impact of positive reinforcement training on
cats in a shelter setting.
She enjoys working with the students to provide guidance and training using high - volume, high - quality approaches to spay / neuter
surgeries in a shelter setting.
This presentation reviews common intestinal parasites of cats and dogs, their life cycles and transmission, diagnostic tests that can be
done in a shelter setting and practical treatments for animals in shelters.
The successful candidate will have experience
in a shelter setting with a minimum of 2 years in people and program management.
Because mother cats often become
stressed in a shelter setting, which reduces their ability to care for their kittens, human intervention, which includes constant monitoring, is necessary to ensure survival.
Your pets are never housed in facilities during their transition, they will live in caring foster homes rather than
in a shelter setting which reduces the trauma of a major life transition.
Our presentations focus on building and improving adoption programs that include pit bulls and working within the challenges of housing and training the
dogs in a shelter setting.
Our roundtable expert answers questions about serving the special needs of exotic
birds in a shelter setting including how to evaluate and deal with bird behavior and common avian conditions, recognize signs of illness, and respond to medical emergencies.
played a critical role in achieving this status by developing innovative and comprehensive programs that serve key demographics of animals typically
euthanized in a shelter setting.
Easy to clean, disinfect and reuse, they're perfect for
use in a shelter setting as a safe and sanitary area to contain puppies.
Explore realistic solutions and treatment options in this exclusive webcast from Maddie's InstituteSM, where Dr. Crawford will bust some myths about diagnosing, managing, and treating this highly infectious
disease in the shelter setting.
In a free webcast co-presented by Maddie's Fund ® and the Association of Shelter Veterinarians, Updates on Heartworm Disease for Animal Shelters, Dr. Brian DiGangi of the ASPCA will help attendees understand current practices and challenges to standard heartworm management
guidelines in the shelter setting.
Evaluators who
work in a shelter setting and who will only be testing shelter and / or foster dogs may register at a reduced rate of $ 25.
Results suggest that behavioral questionnaires may sometimes provide inaccurate
information in a shelter setting, but the information may still be useful when evaluating behavior of relinquished dogs.
Pets that are older, pets with fractured limbs, pets that have serious but treatable injuries or illnesses, and pets that shut down out of
fear in a shelter setting.
Viewers will also learn now to design disease management protocols
feasible in the shelter setting and develop best practices for minimizing heartworm transmission in relocated dogs.
There are many reasons why dogs find their way to CLR including «owner surrenders»; owners who can't take care of the dogs anymore, a family moves, and / or many are
found in shelters set to be euthanized, or as strays and brought to rescue.
This can be
difficult in a shelter setting, so if your dogs are housed in a shelter, try to shuffle your «less adoptables» off to foster homes where they can get the TLC they need to become «more adoptable.»
The appropriate treatment and containment practices needed to address a CIRDC incident exist and can be costly to a shelter and to animal welfare, which is why a prevention strategy is
critical in a shelter setting.
«Especially
in shelter settings where innovation is sometimes the only way to reasonably treat an animal, you will learn a lot of different approaches to different ailments or procedures.
I had heard great things about Cat Depot, so I wanted to see what they did differently in order to reduce stress and make the cats more
comfortable in a shelter setting.»
For example, cats not socialized to people have been shown to be more likely to experience high levels of stress when exposed to
people in a shelter setting.5