The Impact of Incorporating Multiple Best Practices on Live Outcomes for a Municipal Animal Shelter in Memphis, TN [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022 Modern animal shelters are encouraged to adopt “best practices” intended to promote life-saving for the animals that enter their systems. While these best practices have been defined and widely promoted within the profession, few studies have tracked how
Rachael E. Kreisler +3 more
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Spectrum of care approach to animal shelter management of feline infectious peritonitis complicated by feline leukemia virus [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceIntroductionFeline infectious peritonitis (FIP) occurs most commonly in multi-cat environments such as animal shelters. FIP is often suspected based on compatible history, signalment, physical examination, and hematological and biochemical findings ...
Emma K. LaVigne +7 more
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Social Workers in Animal Shelters: A Strategy Toward Reducing Occupational Stress Among Animal Shelter Workers [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 Animal shelter workers (ASWs) are at disproportionate risk of moral injury, secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and burn-out. While there is an emerging body of literature developing on understanding the nuances of these experiences for ASWs, little ...
Janet Hoy-Gerlach +2 more
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Using institutional ethnography to analyse animal sheltering and protection II: Animal shelter work. [PDF]
Anim Welf, 2023 AbstractEfficient adoption is an important aim of animal shelters, but it is not possible for all animals including those with serious behavioural problems. We used institutional ethnography to explore the everyday work of frontline shelter staff in a large animal sheltering and protection organisation and to examine how their work is organised by ...
Koralesky KE, Rankin JM, Fraser D.
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Trends in Animal Shelter Management, Adoption, and Animal Death in Taiwan from 2012 to 2020 [PDF]
Animals, 2023 This current study investigated the trends in public animal shelter intakes and outcomes and the workload of shelter veterinarians in Taiwan from 2012 to 2020 and reports spatial, temporal, and socioeconomic factors associated with these trends ...
Tzu-Yun Yan, Kendy Tzu-yun Teng
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Efficacy of a Probiotic‐Prebiotic Supplement on Incidence of Diarrhea in a Dog Shelter: A Randomized, Double‐Blind, Placebo‐Controlled Trial [PDF]
Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2017 Background Diarrhea is the most frequent morbidity affecting kenneled dogs in animal shelters. Diarrhea impacts animal welfare and the finances of the shelter as they must treat, clean, and house affected animals until recovered.
L. Rose, J. Rose, S. Gosling, M. Holmes
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Predictors of successful diversion of cats and dogs away from animal shelter intake: Analysis of data from a self-rehoming website [PDF]
Animal Welfare, 2023 As animals experience distress in animal shelters, leaders call for increased efforts to divert intake of companion animals away from shelters. One novel intake diversion strategy is supported self-rehoming, where owners find new homes for their animals ...
Lexis H Ly, Alexandra Protopopova
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Interviews with Indian Animal Shelter Staff: Similarities and Differences in Challenges and Resiliency Factors Compared to Western Counterparts [PDF]
Animals, 2022 Animal shelters in India are at the forefront of efforts to improve free-ranging dog welfare and tackle animal overpopulation. In terms of cultural and political context, access to resources, and public health challenges, they operate in a very different
Deyvika Srinivasa +3 more
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Evaluation on shelter medicine and stray animal shelters in turkey [PDF]
Kafkas Universitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Dergisi, 2019 In Turkey, the institutions established to serve the purpose of sheltering and rehabilitating abandoned, weakened and stray animals are known as an animal shelter, rehabilitation centre or a (temporary) animal sanctuary.
Ali YİĞİT +2 more
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Behaviour Real-Time Spatial Tracking Identification (BeRSTID) used for Cat Behaviour Monitoring in an Animal Shelter [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Efficiently tracking animal behaviour in an animal shelter has direct lifesaving applications. Individualized care and early recognition of distress in cats are often missed.
B. H. Eagan, B. Eagan, A. Protopopova
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