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Increasing the Odds of a Successful Adoption

Discover the best ways to prepare and provide support for adopters bringing a new dog into their home.

Three Tips for Reducing Barking in the Shelter

Yes, it’s possible to reduce barking in your shelter! Try these three tips for some peace and quiet—and peace of mind.

How to Plan & Track the Best Enrichment Program Ever

Participants will walk away knowing the right strategies to set individual shelter goals, plus how to track the program to maximize effectiveness.

Northern Tier Shelter Initiative Zoomies: Behavior Pathway Resources - Tools of the Trade

Discover a group of behavior pathway resources developed to guide pathway planning and outcome decisions with your shelter’s behavioral capacity for care in mind.

Animal Behavior Pathway Resources

If you have questions or comments about these behavior pathway resources and tools, please email shelterbehavior@aspca.org. We also hope you will let us know how these behavior pathway resources are used in your organization!

Using Model Dogs to Assess Aggression in Fight-Bred Dogs

Review research by the ASPCA on using a life-sized, plush model dog to screen for dog-directed aggression in canines used in illegal dogfighting.

Animal Behavior Research

These studies will help you manage common dog and cat behavioral concerns. Use the research takeaways to improve animal welfare in your community.

7 Ways to Reduce Stress When Handling Dogs and Cats

Food Guarding in Shelter Dogs

An ASPCA study provides a compelling argument against euthanizing dogs who display food guarding.

They Did It: Reinvented How They Talk About Behavior in Shelter Animals

Two experts provide examples and tools for messaging behavior in shelter animals that can be easily implemented into daily operations.

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