Advocacy 101: Advocating for the Shelter Animals in Your Community Where do I start?” Who do I contact? What do I say? What if they say “no?” In this 52 minute video presentation, recorded at the 2013 Mission: Pets Alive workshop, discover ways to advocate and work with your local animal shelter to improve live
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Archive for no kill animal shelter
Animal Shelter Reform & Transformation: When a local, taxpayer-funded animal shelter wrongly killed Kenzie, a beloved family Golden Retriever, a rural schoolteacher, with the support of her husband, reformed their city’s high-kill animal shelter. From pet owner to animal advocate, discover how she used The Public Information Act, formerly known as the Open Records Act, to uncover
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No Kill Shelter Tips from No Kill Leaders Animal Shelters staff, Rescues, and Volunteers asked questions of the Mission: Pets Alive workshop speaker panel. No kill experts include, left-to-right: Kelli Alexander–Denton County Texas no Kill Advocate, Dr. Ellen Jefferson–Austin Pets Alive! Director, Cheryl Schneider–Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter Director, Mike Kitkowski–Rockwall Pets, and Sgt. Karl
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Feral Cats Wild, unsocialized cats are called Feral Cats. They colonize and can be a helpful addition to local communities as they control the rat population and provide other benefits. Please note that a feral cat is not the same as a stray cat that may be someone’s lost pet. Lost pets can be scared,
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Rescuing Street Strays The Corridor of Cruelty in Houston, Texas is sadly, a popular dumping ground for abandoned pets. Deborah Hoffman illustrates that change begins with one person committing to being the change. In this 5 minute video, Deborah shares the horrors that are the Corridor and how the organization she founded works to not
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No Kill Animal Shelter Crisis Management: Discover how to effectively manage the animal shelter and maintain no kill during high intake seasons, budget cuts, and other unexpected challenges in this 53 minute video presentation, recorded at the 2013 Mission: Pets Alive workshop, with Cheryl Schneider, director of the no kill Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter in Georgetown,
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Building an Effective & Large Volunteer/Foster Program: Volunteers are key to the pets alive/no kill mission of saving homeless animals. Learn how to recruit, build, and maintain a solid volunteer program for your animal shelter or rescue group in this 47 minute video presentation recorded at the 2013 Mission: Pets Alive workshop with Dr. Ellen Jefferson, Austin
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Finding Volunteers and Fosters for Animal Shelters and Rescues! by Alva Logsdon Every community has great volunteer potential; the key is knowing where to find them and taking an active role to do so. Here are 19 resources you can focus your recruitment efforts on: Yahoo or Google groups (look for categories like animal groups,
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Protecting the Animals in Your Shelter’s Care by Alva Logsdon Anytime there is a large population (animal shelter, hospital, airplane, concert, etc.), there is a risk that illness or contagious disease will quickly spread exposing the entire population to a potentially life-threatening illness. However, with proper care the risks decrease; know and take low-cost, necessary
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Low-Cost Animal Shelter Disease Management Learn how to reduce the spread of illness and disease in an open-admission shelter, rescue, or foster home, even when funds are limited. In this 56 minute video presentation, recorded at the 2013 Mission: Pets Alive workshop, Dr. Ellen Jefferson of Austin Pets Alive!, provides protocol and resources to keep animals safe
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