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How Shelter Pets Benefit from “Real-Life” Rooms

Three animal welfare organizations with real-life rooms--where adoptable pets can relax and decompress--share the benefits, challenges, and recommendations for such spaces.

The Daily Change-Up

Mackenzie’s Animal Sanctuary incorporates in-kennel canine enrichment into daily activities like cleaning kennels and feeding.

Leveraging Facebook to Promote Your Big Adoption Event

Use these tried-and-true tips to capitalize on Facebook and find more homes for animals.

Shelter Nutrition for Cats and Dogs

Proper nutrition is an essential component of any shelter wellness program. Food can also be a powerful enrichment tool. Learn best practices for feeding the animals in your care.

Animal Shelter Essential Resources

Access back-to-basics essential tools and content to train animal shelter staff and share best practices from animal care and health to community engagement, behavior, and more.

Heartworm in Animal Shelter Populations

Learn how to prevent and treat heartworm in shelter animals.

Feline Infectious Peritonitis

Learn about the prevention, transmission, diagnosis and treatment of Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) in an animal shelter environment.

Outfitting and Enriching Communal Cat Rooms

A group room affords cats a sense of control over their environment, thus eliminating a major source of stress for sheltered cats.

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!

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