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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.

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.

Canine Parvovirus

Learn about canine parvovirus, including how to diagnosis and treat individual dogs and prevent and manage parvovirus in a shelter population.

17 Plants Poisonous to Pets

Some of the prettiest household decorations can be the most lethal to pets. Find out which household plants could make your animals ill.

Preparing for and Responding to Disasters Impacting Equines

Here we’ll share best practices for handling cruelty and neglect cases, including the appropriate processes for engaging law enforcement.

Sample Job Descriptions for Kitten Foster Coordinators

These job descriptions summarize the responsibilities of being a kitten foster coordinator or volunteer foster coordinator for an animal shelter or rescue.

Evaluating Horses for Better Matchmaking

Learn how one organization evaluates horses to match them with the right adopter.

8 Tips for Brushing Up Your Canine Communication Skills

Learn more about dog body language in order to conduct more predictive assessments, avoid bites and provide better quality of life for the canines in your care.

Blue-Green Algae and Other Water Toxins & Treatments

Reports of toxic pet exposures to blue green algae have increased of late, so here's what you need to know for diagnosis and treatment.

Retention of Pet ID Tags and Outcomes for Lost Pets

If shelters provide ID tags and put them on adopted or found animals, the likelihood immediately improves that those pets, if lost, will return home.

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