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Volunteers

From recruitment to training to managing and thanking your volunteers, we’ve got resources to help you create, expand or improve volunteer programs.

Feline Panleukopenia

Learn about feline panleukopenia and how to manage it in an animal shelter setting.

Feline Infectious Peritonitis

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

Animal Behavior

From working with fearful dogs to reading cat body language, this section contains resources to help you communicate with and better care for animals.

3 Tips for Setting Up a Temporary Shelter

In the event of a disaster or large-scale seizure in your community, follow these three tips from the ASPCA’s Field Investigations and Response Team (FIR).

7 Tips for Animal Shelters on Giving Tuesday

These seven best practices can help you leverage the philanthropic powerhouse of Giving Tuesday on behalf of your organization and its animals.

10 Ways to Celebrate Halloween with Shelter Animals

Here’s some spook-tacular inspiration from your colleagues in the animal welfare field—all treats, no tricks! Have some Halloween fun at your shelter this year.

6 Tips for Placing Special Needs Horses

Learn 6 tips for placing special needs and unrideable equine into good homes.

Top Tips for Volunteer Success in an Animal Shelter or Rescue

Read our top tips for finding, motivating, and retaining one of your most important assets – your animal shelter volunteers.

10 Tips to Make the Most of Real-Life Rooms

After a remodel of its real-life room, the ASPCA shares 10 tips for décor and design.

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