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Ideal Age of Spay/Neuter

The risk of surgical complications is less with pediatric spay/neuter. Read these articles to find out more.

Reaching & Supporting Adopters

Make it easy for adopters to keep their pets with these resources for managing behavior issues and other concerns in the early days of adoption.

Intake & Preventive Care

Preventive care and intake best practices are critical for animal health in shelters.

Board & Leadership

Use these resources to create a customer-focused staff and board of directors.

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!

Promotions & Events

In this section you’ll find adoption promotions and event planning resources to help you save more lives.

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.

Managing People Resources

This section contains tips and tools to help you hire, manage and, if necessary, correct the people who help you get the work done of saving lives.

Volunteers

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

Online Resource Launches for Owner-to-Owner Adoptions

An online community, getyourpet.com, has launched to connect people who want to adopt pets with people who need to rehome their pets.

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