Shelter’s Edge

Posts Tagged ‘length of stay’

Tip of the Week: Buh Bye, Bottleneck

The provision of spay/neuter for shelter animals can create a “bottleneck” in animals moving efficiently through the shelter and going home. This holdup may increase an animal’s length of stay in ... Read more..

We Need to Know About Cat Handling in Your Shelter!

In order to learn more about best practices & develop new programs, we want to learn how shelters are screening cats upon intake. Trish McMillan Loehr, MSc, CPDT, Director, Applied Research ... Read more..

Time To Change Our Perspective Around Food Aggression

For several years now, we have been teaching a simple protocol to eliminate food aggression in dogs in shelters. Many shelters have implemented the protocol, and many others have developed ... Read more..

Free Cat Adoptions Save Lives – Again!

This past June the ASPCA and Fresh Step® collaborated on a month-long fee-waived cat adoption promotion for shelters around the country. Over 150 shelters signed up to participate by conducting ... Read more..

Returns or Relinquishment… by the numbers

I have been involved in a few think tanks over the past several months focused on increasing the number of lives saved in shelters. In most of these meetings there ... Read more..