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Companion Animal Adoption in Shelters
2023Abstract An important goal of animal shelters is to find adopters for animals in need of a home. Traditionally, shelters have applied strict criteria that screened out applicants. Increasingly, however, shelters are moving toward a so-called open adoption approach, which engages would-be adopters in a conversation to match them with a ...
Valéry Giroux, Kristin Voigt
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Give me shelter: the state of animal sheltering in Kentucky’s county shelter system
Contemporary Justice Review, 2016AbstractThe Commonwealth of Kentucky Animal Control and Advisory Board estimates that in 2012, approximately 285,000 dogs and cats entered the shelter system, but only 15% were retrieved by owners or adopted to a new home. While some shelters incorporate adoption, fostering, and low-cost spay and neuter programs, many shelters euthanize the majority of
Jennifer B. Sinski, Patricia Gagné
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The Case of the Discolored Animal Shelter Floor
CoatingsPro, 2020Bleach is extremely effective in killing harmful bacteria on surfaces. But in this case, it was the wrong cleaner for the application.
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2015
American animal shelters house between six and eight million dogs and cats each year. The question of what to do with millions of healthy but unwanted animals has animated sheltering from the start. Responses reveal how the presence of animals in society shapes institutions, laws, and policies.
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American animal shelters house between six and eight million dogs and cats each year. The question of what to do with millions of healthy but unwanted animals has animated sheltering from the start. Responses reveal how the presence of animals in society shapes institutions, laws, and policies.
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Shelter design and flow of animals through a shelter
2018The appropriate design of a shelter is fundamental to optimizing the physical and psychological health and welfare of shelter animals. Each shelter will have individual considerations relating to its specific circumstances, and there are many design options. This chapter outlines the principles that should be incorporated into each individual design.
Paula Boyden, Lisa Morrow
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Shelter-Specific Occupational Stress among Employees in Animal Shelters
Human-animal interaction bulletin, 2016Abstract In the past 10 years a small number of articles have examined the personal and organizational costs associated with euthanasia-related strain among employees in animal shelters. However, there is very little research focusing on a wider range of potentialstressors especially without a pre-existing assumption that euthanasia ...
Margaret Schneider, Jesse Roberts
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Animal Shelter Emotion Management
Sociology, 2010Based on participant observation this article investigates the role and function of emotion management in an animal shelter. Disavowing traditional approaches which confirm the epistemic privilege of researchers, this article instead, takes the in situ, performative aspect of emotion displays as its evidence base.
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Skin diseases in shelter animals
2018Skin disease is common in cats and dogs, and can be a reason for relinquishment, abandonment, or even consideration for euthanasia. However, many dermatological conditions are very amenable to diagnosis and effective treatment within the shelter without marked expense.
Nathalie Dowgray, Steve Shaw
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Emergency and Disaster Planning at Ohio Animal Shelters
Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 2010Results of a cross-sectional study to determine the level of emergency and disaster response planning at Ohio nonhuman animal shelters and the role Ohio agencies have in emergency and disaster response planning in their communities indicated a lack of preparedness coupled with underutilization of the agencies as a resource. A total of 115 agencies (68%)
Shanna M, Decker +3 more
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Shelter Animals in Laboratory Experimentation
2017Companion animals, including shelter cats and dogs, are used in laboratory experimentation every day. The scenarios for what these animals endure in the name of science would be considered criminal in the USA and most countries, yet is exempt from animal anti-cruelty laws and condoned by governments worldwide. This chapter delves into government-funded
Allie Phillips, Anthony Bellotti
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