The proposal is to remove breed labels from
shelter kennel cards, forcing adopters to base their decisions on more important factors like the dog's personality, size, and training.
In the meanwhile, we all might want to give careful consideration to the PLOS One study and possibly remove breed names from
shelter kennel cards to allow the public to make choices based on interactions with individual dogs rather than sensationalist headlines.
Not exact matches
When you come to the
shelter to look for a pet, we provide you with all of the information that we know about each animal on a
card that is posted on the animal's
kennel in our adoption rooms.
Ensure facility signage and animal inventory are up - to - date including accurate
kennel cards on animal
kennels, real - time updates to the shared online
kennel map, and expedited updates to the
shelter software location option.
There are a number of organizations that aim to combat breed discrimination, and while they are doing great work, change needs to happen at all levels, which is why one
shelter in Florida has stepped up to the plate and removed all of its breed identification labels from
kennel cards and their website.
On 2/12/16 LRR made a donation of a Home Depot gift
card to Doorways Safehaven
Kennel that offers safe
shelter for women and their animals fleeing violence.
A general idea of their behaviors may be posted on a note
card on their
kennel door, but these are only behaviors that the
shelter staff has witnessed firsthand from a highly stressed and scared dog.
Adoption fees are normally listed with the pet's description on our website as well as on the
kennel card on the pet's
kennel at the
shelter.
Zarka visited the
shelter religiously, perusing
kennel card descriptions and taking dogs out for meet - and - greets, until one day she asked staff about the sweet - faced senior girl she had seen on the website.
Just days earlier, when she'd first visited the facility to put her name on his
kennel card, the
shelter had been jam - packed with hundreds of desperate, barking dogs.