Download our free guide, Trash to Treasure, Shelter Edition, to
increase animal enrichment with these fun recycling projects from shelters around the country.
Not exact matches
If you have so many
animals in your care you can't provide the daily
enrichment they need, look for ways to achieve your humane capacity by decreasing your intake and
increasing your outflow.
When you Adopt a Kennel you are providing needed financial support for the
animals staying in your sponsored kennel such as basic and emergency medical care, and pet food and for future renovation plans to provide
increased space, comfort, and
enrichment.
Canine Play Groups — Play groups are a powerful tool for shelters to
increase adoptions, provide
enrichment and improve
animals» quality of life.
Environmental
enrichment:
Increasing the biological relevance of captive environments A review of environmental
enrichment for pigs housed in intensive housing systems COMPANION
ANIMALS SYMPOSIUM: Environmental enrichment for companion, exotic, and laboratory
ANIMALS SYMPOSIUM: Environmental
enrichment for companion, exotic, and laboratory
animalsanimals
During her years with the MSPCA, she implemented many programs, including temperament evaluations of shelter dogs; behavioral and environmental
enrichment for all the
animals at the shelter; clicker training programs to decrease stress and
increase adoptability for both dogs and cats; and educational programs for staff, volunteers, local
animal control officers, and the general public on
animal - behavior - related issues.
Your donation goes toward items for our shelter
animal enrichment program, aimed at decreasing stress in shelter pets and
increasing their adoptability.
In addition, HB 515 establishes a holding period for both stray
animals and those surrendered by their families, it gives the person surrendering the
animal the ability to change their mind and reclaim the
animal, it bifurcates the holding period to incentivize adoptions and rescue transfers, it allows «shelters» to transfer
animals to rescue groups right away to free up cage and kennel space thus reducing costs while
increasing lifesaving, it mandates prompt and necessary care and environmental
enrichment, and for those who are irremediably suffering, rigorously defined, it puts in place a mechanism to end their lives in as kind and compassionate a manner as possible and one that meets the dictionary definition for «euthanasia.»
One program, Book Buddies, allows children to read to shelter
animals, and another, Running Dog, provides
increased enrichment and awareness.