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Sample Plans for Evacuation and Sheltering

These three sample plans can be adapted for your needs to help you prepare for animal emergencies, including evacuations and temporary sheltering.

Ask the Equine Welfare Expert

Are you an employee or volunteer at an equine adoption agency with a question about equine welfare? Submit your question to the Equine Welfare Team.

3 Tips for Keeping Foster Families Engaged

Foster families are a key part of any shelter or rescue’s operations. Check out these tips to help keep both your potential and current foster families excited and engaged.

Tips to Make Dog Adoptions Stick

Follow these tips from dog expert Patricia McConnell to help maximize the chance for a lasting dog adoption.

How to Cut Foster Home Wait Times With On-Deck System

Find out how an on-deck foster system can streamline your process and move animals more quickly into foster homes.

Urine Drug Screens for Pets: What You Need to Know

Is an OTC urine drug screen effective in treating animals who may have been exposed to drugs? The APCC says "yes" and explains how and why they should be used.

Feline Retroviruses in Shelter Populations

Learn to identify, test, treat, and prevent feline retroviruses that may affect your animal shelter’s cat population.

Pets as Gifts Can Safely Increase Holiday Adoptions

Learn how promoting pets as gifts can get more shelter animals adopted using research-backed techniques that save lives.

Household, Indoor & Outdoor Risks

Information about hidden dangers both inside the house and in the great outdoors can be found here, along with treatment strategies.

Animal Fighting

Humans in every part of the country and many different types of communities perpetuate the heinous practice of forcing animals to fight.

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