It is crazy how little
understanding Animal Control shelters seem to have of the animals that they take in.
Not exact matches
They have absolutely no
control over where they came from or if they will live or die and did NOTHING to deserve any of it, I
understand over crowding in
shelters is a huge issue but doesn \» t it make since that rather than pay BIG many for a specific breed of
animal humans should pay that money to adopt an
animal which would go to the
shelters to either enlarge the facility or build more, paying for feeding and upkeep of this poor babies until they find a loving home.
Shelter / Hospital Design: 2 CE credit available One on one explanation and discussion on the reasoning behind our layout worth 1 CE Participation in a «walk through» and the process of daily
animal flow worth 1 CE - A discussion and tour through the facility to
understand the intense process of designing a facility that can accommodate hundreds of
animals at one time while decreasing contamination, stress, and
controlling noise.
Understand the limitations of
shelters and
animal care and
control agencies.
Our
animal control officers and
shelter staff work in the neighborhoods, close to the people who want to provide the best care for their pets to better
understand what resources need to be available.
Once you
understand how your local government is structured, your next step is to research the contracts, laws, and
shelter reports that hold
animal control accountable to your community.
Additionally, the
shelter medicine specialist must have an expanded
understanding of other areas not emphasized under traditional veterinary medical training; these include, but are not limited to,
shelter facility design and operation,
animal husbandry (nutrition, sanitation, disinfection), companion
animal welfare, cruelty investigation, public health, personnel management, psycho - social aspects of
sheltering, resource management and risk analysis, and strategies for
animal population
control.