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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.

3 Tips for Growing Your Own Adopters by Welcoming First-Time Horse Owners

Discover how one agency has found success cultivating their community’s horse enthusiasts into quality adopters—and how you can do the same.

How Conversational Adoption Can Help You Place More Horses in Homes

Learn 5 tips for shifting to a conversational adoption approach that will enhance matchmaking and increase equine adoptions.

They Did It: Hay Safety Net Helps Struggling Horse Owners

Read how one agency got social-service agencies to promote a hay safety net program that keeps horses in their homes.

Intake Diversion Program for Horses

Discover an equine intake diversion program that rehomes horses directly from their current owners to new adoptive homes.

3 Tips for Intake and Operations at a Temporary Shelter

Managing a temporary shelter can be an overwhelming task. Follow these three tips from the ASPCA’s Field Investigations and Response Team (FIR)

Improving Access to Heartworm Treatment

ASPCA collaborated with Emancipet on research showing that effective and safe heartworm disease treatment can be provided at lower cost using a technician-leveraged, high-volume outpatient model.

Equine Fostering Q&A with Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society

Increase your capacity and place more horses into homes with fostering tips from Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society.

Life Beyond the Shelter – Research Findings & Welfare Implications of the Feline Spectrum Behavior Assessment

Learn insights and welfare insights from research on the feline spectrum behavior assessment.

6 Ways to Protect Horses While Transferring Ownership

Discover six ways to provide a safety net for horses while still transferring ownership at the time of adoption.