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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).

Barn Cat Programs that Work

Learn how two agencies provided alternative living arrangements for hundreds of cats in barns, warehouses and factories

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.

How to Take Animal Sheltering Operations Online During a Crisis

Get tips for hosting virtual event, online adoptions fundraisers during the COVID-19 crisis.

2024 ASPCA National Shelter Grants Initiative

The ASPCA is offering $3 million in grants to U.S. shelters by funding programs that support animal outcomes, animal psychological health, and access to veterinary care.

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