Providing quality care to the animals in your charge is key to meeting your mission as a sheltering organization. We have guidelines, expert advice, and tips to help you ensure the health of individual animals and your facility’s population.
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Animal Care & Handling
From basic information on determining an animal's age to detailed information on proper animal housing, this section has everything you need to ensure your facility is practicing humane handling.
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Animal Stress & Stress Reduction
Animal shelters can be a stressful environment for companion animals. Stress compromises immunity and normal behavior, so learn how to combat and reduce stress to increase the welfare of your shelter.
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Veterinary Resources
Whether you're coming to shelter medicine from school or private practice, learn the ropes and keep updated on the trends from experts in the field.
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- Allergies to Pets
- Animal Care & Handling
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- Behavior & Training
- Behavior/Temperament Evaluation
- Birds
- Breed Identification
- Calicivirus
- Cats
- Colony Housing
- Crisis Management
- Declawing
- Disease Control
- Disinfection & Cleaning
- Dog Bites
- Dogs
- Equine
- Farm Animals
- Feeding Protocols
- Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV)
- Foster Care Programs
- Health, Animal
- How-To Instructional Sheets
- Identification
- Isolation & Separation
- Kennel Cough
- Licensing
- Microchipping
- Operations
- Panleukopenia
- Parasites
- Parvovirus
- Pediatric Sterilization
- Pet Care
- Policies & Procedures
- Quality of Life
- Rabbits
- Rabies
- Reptiles
- Safety, Animal
- Seasonal Issues
- Small Mammals
- Standard Operating Procedures
- Training, Staff & Volunteer
- Vaccinations, Animals
- Veterinary Resources
- West Nile Virus
- Wildlife & Exotic Animals
- Wildlife Rehabilitation
- Zoonotic Diseases
