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- "Animal Rescue League of Boston, Cape Cod, MA"
- "ASPCA's ""Must See"" Shelters"
- "Becoming a Shelter Dog, Part I"
- "Becoming a Shelter Dog, Part II"
- "Cat Care, Adoption and Behavior Tips to Give to Adopters"
- "Comparison of 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4) and 501(c)(6) Organizations"
- "Contracts, Contracts, Contracts - Five Common Mistakes to Avoid"
- "Creating a ""Real-Life Room"" for Shelter Dogs"
- "Evicted! (Chenango County SPCA, Norwich, NY)"
- "Follow-Ups: More Important Than You Think (and Easier, Too)!"
- "Free to Good Home, Super Pets, Sleepovers and More"
- "Fun-Raising (Longmont Humane Society, Longmont, CO)"
- "Good News for Bad Dogs (Marin Humane Society, Novato, CA)"
- "Great Space! (Humane Society of Missouri, St. Louis, MO)"
- "Handling Animal Collectors, Part 1 - Interventions that Work"
- "Handling Animal Collectors, Part 2 - Managing a Large-scale Rescue Operation"
- "Leadership, Possibility and Animal Welfare"
- "Like Food in the Bank (Arizona Humane Society, Phoenix, AZ)"
- "Must See" Shelters
- "Orientation - Smart Starts, Part I"
- "Orientation - Smart Starts, Part II"
- "Orientation - Smart Starts, Part III"
- "Part IV - What to Do, and What Not to Do"
- "Partners and Friends (Friends of San Clemente Animals, San Clemente, CA)"
- "Phoenix Rising (Chenango County SPCA, Norwich, NY)"
- "Project Dog (Humane Society of Central Delaware, Delhi, NY)"
- "Protecting Animals, Teaching Children"
- "Putting a Roof Over Rover's Head (Operation Kindness, Carrollton, TX)"
- "Sheltering Farms (Farm Sanctuary, Watkins Glen, NY)"
- "Sheltering, Rocky Mountain Style (Humane Society of Boulder Valley, Boulder County, CO)"
- "Strictly Volunteer (West Milford Animal Shelter Society, West Milford, NJ)"
- "The 'Burbs (NMHP, Salt Lake City, UT)"
- "The Humane Society of Yates County, Penn Yan, New York"
- "The Little Shelter that Could (Lake City Animal Shelter, Lake City, FL)"
- "Top Ten Reasons Rabbits are Abandoned, and Criteria for Screening Potential Adopters"
- "Volunteers - Getting Ready for Them, Finding Them, Keeping Them"
- "Working Hard at ""No-Kill"" (Humane Society of Gallatin Valley, Bozeman, MT)"
- "Zoonosis, Part II"
- 10 Tips for Speaking with Reporters
- 10 Tips To An Effective Presentation
- 101 Great Shelter Ideas
- 101 More Great Shelter Ideas
- 12 Tips for Hosting a Successful Dog Walk
- 13 Steps to a More Secure Shelter
- 20 Ways to Recognize Volunteers
- 20 Ways to Recruit Volunteers
- 9 Steps to Happier Shelter Cats
- A Case for Accurate Breed ID of Shelter Dogs
- A Haven for Hedgehogs
- A Raid on a Puppy Mill (Part II) -The Aftermath Inoculating Against Long Term Stress Disorders
- A Raid On A Puppy Mill - Normal Reactions To Abnormal Events
- A Sanctuary for Turkeys
- Actual Follow-Up Questions to Ask Adopters
- Adopt a Senior Pet Month Sample Press Release
- Adopt Your Own Mini Panther: A Campaign Targeting the Adoption of Black Cats
- Adopt-a-Shelter-Dog-Month Radio Public Service Announcements
- Adopt-a-Shelter-Dog-Month Sample Press Release
- Adoption Discussion Card - Cat
- Adoption Discussion Card - Dog
- Angel Pets: Treating Pets with Chronic Health Conditions
- Animal Handling Safety Tips
- Animal Placement Tips and Strategies
- Animal-Related Events Calendar
- Anticipatory Grief in Shelter Workers
- Are You Burned Out?
- ASCM Sample Press Release
- ASCM Sample Radio Public Service Announcements
- ASPCA Internet Adoption Guidelines
- Basic Components of a Successful Adoption Program
- Basic Telephone Skills
- Behavioral Enrichment in a Shelters
- Behavioral Therapy Helps A Shelter Dog
- Benchmarks of a Good Shelter
- Better Communications
- Bird Adoption Application
- Bird Adoption Application Evaluation Guide
- Blue Light Special on Featured Dogs
- Breaking Up Dog Fights in a Shelter Setting
- Calming Shelter Dogs
- Canine Group Housing - Issues and Considerations
- Caring for Exotic Birds in the Shelter
- Cat Adoption Application
- Cat Owner's Questionnaire (Relinquishment Profile)
- Checklist for Factors in the Assessment of Dangerousness in Perpetrators of Animal Cruelty
- Cobb County Animal Control Program Description
- Cobb County Animal Control Program Summary
- Cobb County Field Operations - Cruelty Investigations S.O.P.
- Cobb County Veterinarian Packet
- Cold Case Cockers
- Colony Housing for Shelter Cats
- Common Problems of Adoption Programs
- Companion Animal Populations - Historical Context and Future Directions
- Compassion Fatigue and Burnout
- Compliance Inspection Form
- Conflict Management
- Coping Strategies for Managers
- Coping with Euthanasia
- County of Orange Health Care Agency Letter
- Creating a Plan for Your Animal Welfare Organization
- Creating a Proposal
- Crisis Management - Dealing with Community Complaints
- Cruelty Case Resolutions
- Cruelty Notice Report
- Dealing with Anger
- Dealing with Stress
- Defensive Handling
- Demonstrations & Booth Ideas
- Desensitization and Counterconditioning
- Determination of Sex of an Animal
- Developing Community Support - Collecting Input
- Developing Immunity in the Shelter Community (Feline Panleukopenia)
- Disenfranchised Grief
- Doctoring a Stray
- Dog Adoption Application
- Dog Owner's Questionnaire (Relinquishment Profile)
- Dog Tips (Hosting a Dog Walk)
- Dog Walking Club
- Dog Walking Timeline (Hosting a Dog Walk)
- Downloadable Materials for Adopt a Shelter Dog Month
- Easy Ways to Increase Adoptability for Rabbits
- Eddie's Friends: A Campaign for Senior Dogs
- End Petlessness
- Essential Qualities of a Good Shelter
- Estimation of Dogs and Cats in NYC and Long Island (Including formula to estimate numbers in your re
- Exam Room Equipment
- Examination of the Eyes
- Examination of the Head and Mouth
- FACTS - Pet Ownership
- Facts About Animal Sheltering
- Find the Right Spot for Each Dog
- Finding Owners of Stray Birds
- First Impressions and Dog Adoptions
- Flabulous Felines Find Families
- Follow-Up Questionnaire for New Adopters
- Foster Care Agreement
- Foster Care Agreements
- Foster Care Application
- Foster Care Brochure
- Foster Care Programs Considerations
- Foster Home Report
- Foundations and Organizations that Fund Animal Welfare Grants
- Fun Fundraising Events
- General Guidelines When Dealing with Newspapers
- General Statement Regarding Euthanasia Methods for Dogs and Cats
- Giving a Basic Health Exam - Facilities and Procedures
- Great Homes for Great Pets
- Grief - A Part of Being Human
- Group Surrender Form
- Guarding Against Panleukopenia
- Guidelines - How to Handle Suspicious Mail
- Guidelines for Communal Housing of Cats
- Guidelines for Dealing with the Panleukopenia Problem
- Guidelines for Public Speaking
- Hard-to-Place Dogs
- Hooked on Books
- Housing and Feeding Shelter Birds
- How Keeping Statistics Can Help You
- How To Handle a Socialized Cat
- How To Lead a Shelter Tour
- How To Set Up a Comfy Cat Cage
- How to Set Up a Comfy Dog Kennel
- How To Set Up Visiting Room
- How To Sex Small Mammals
- How To Start an Anti-Cruelty Program
- How To Teach a Shelter Dog to Sit
- How to Walk a Shelter Dog
- How to Walk a Shelter Dog - Spanish Version
- How To Write a Cage Card
- How To Write a Cage Card - Spanish Version
- Huntington Bank Survivor Program
- Improve Staff Morale By Giving Quality Feedback
- In Society's Eyes
- Increasing Cat Adoptions
- Indicators of General Health
- Intake Information and Health Check for Incoming Rabbits
- Interfacing with Animal Shelters
- Interviewing and Selecting Volunteers and What To Do With Them Once You Have Them
- Introducing the SFSPCA/ASPCA Alliance
- Juvenile Inmates Take HEART (Rehabilitation of Juvenile Inmates)
- Kennel Cough
- La Rabia (Rabies-Spanish Version)
- Learn About Dog Behavior and Training
- Learning as a Management Strategy
- Lesson Plan - Careers Working with Animals
- Lesson Plan - Caring for a Dog
- Lesson Plan - Dog Bite Prevention
- Lesson Plan - Recruiting and Training Teens
- Lesson Plan - The Senses (How a Dog's Senses Compares to Ours)
- Letter to Attorney General
- License Plates as Fundraisers
- Listen to Owners About Returned Pets
- Long-Term Health Care Considerations
- Love and Learn - Why we need humane education
- Maintaining Resilience
- Making Sense of Euthanasia Statistics
- Managers - Use Your Dog Training Skills
- Manners are Important!
- Marketing Hard to Place Dogs
- Marketing Hard-to-Place Animal Companions
- Marketing Special Pets through Videos
- Marketing your Adoptable Pet Videos
- Matching Pets with Senior Citizens
- Meeting the Individual Needs of your Shelter Dogs
- Meetings with Merit
- Negotiating Legal Fees
- New and Improved in New Hampshire
- Nine Things I Want From My Work
- Off-Site and On Target (Michigan Humane Society)
- On the Cutting Edge of Animal Welfare (SPCA serving Erie County)
- Open Adoption Guidelines
- Part I - Learn From Other's Mistakes
- Part II - You Need to Know the Basics
- Part III - Get a Webmaster and Plan Your Site
- Part V- Other Things You Need to Do
- Partnering To Make Off-Site Adoptions a Success
- Pediatric Spay/Neuter
- Personality Profiles for Rabbits
- Pet Parenting Assitance
- Pet Protection Guidelines
- Pet/Livestock Adoption Application
- Pets for Your Eyes and Soul
- Placing Dogs with Children - Warning Signs of Possible Aggression...
- Positive Attitude and Communication
- Positive Customer Relations Do's and Dont's
- PR ACT Launches Examination of Role of Animals in Domestic Violence
- PR Animals Suffer when Caught in Family Fight
- PR Children and Animals Suffer Abuse in Domestic Violence
- PR Exaggerated Ritual Abuse of Animals at Halloween Reality in S. Arizona
- PR Link Between Animal Cruelty and Interpersonal Violence
- Pre-Evaluation Safety S.C.A.N.
- Press Release - Cockfighting Suspect Raided
- Press Release - Illegal Dog Fighting Arrests
- Press Release - Anti-Animal Fighting Campaign Launched
- Preventing Staff Burnout
- Promotional Materials
- Proper Breed Identification Matters
- Protocol for Dogs Removed from Hoarders/Collectors
- Providing Enrichment Programs for Shelter Cats
- Public Relations: 10 Tips to Keep in Mind
- Public Service Announcements
- Putting the Extra in Extra Special Cats
- Questions to Review by Public Officials and Concerned Citizens
- Rabbit Adoption Sample Goodie Bags
- Rabies
- Radio Public Service Announcements
- Raider Nation Cat Celebration
- Reading with Rover
- Red Collar Society
- Reducing Animal Stress in Kenneling Situations
- Rehabilitating Starved Horses
- Reptile/Amphibian Animal Adoption Application
- Request for Cruelty Investigation Form
- Research
- Resource Directory
- Restraint During a Veterinary Exam
- Ringworm
- SAFE HAVEN Program Summary
- Sample Cruelty Investigator Log Sheet
- Sample Letter to the Editor
- Sample Marketing Campaigns from Kentucky Humane Society
- Sample Newsletter from Michigan Humane Society
- Sample Press Release with Internet Options
- Sample Radio PSAs - Promoting Your Pets on Petfinder
- San Francisco Animal Care and Control
- Sanitation in the Animal Shelter
- Sanitation in the Animal Shelter - Part II
- Selected Bibliography
- Senior Pet Adoptions
- Senior Pets for Senior Folks
- Service-Learning Programs for Teens
- Setting Emotional Limits
- Shaping Up Shelter Dogs
- Shedding Some Light on Animal Hoarders
- Shelter Lighting Impacts Adoption
- Shelter Veterinary Medicine
- Show Your Impact - Why Shelters Should Keep Statistics
- Small Companion Animal Adoption Application
- Some Thoughts on Euthanasia from APDT's Gimme Shelter
- Spay/Neuter Programs: What Works
- Special Considerations in The Supervision of Volunteers
- Sponsorship Proposal - Associate Sponsor (Hosting a Dog Walk)
- Sponsorship Proposal - Contributing Sponsor
- Sponsorship Proposal - In Kind Prize Sponsor (Hosting a Dog Walk)
- Sponsorship Proposal - In Kind Refreshment Sponsor
- Sponsorship Proposal - Primary Sponsor
- Sponsoship Proposal - Presenting Sponsor
- Stress and Animal Protection Work
- Stress in the Shelter
- Stress Signals Checklist for Dogs
- Suggested Reading
- Sweep Program Summary
- Taking the Mystery out of Hiring
- Teachers Head Back to School
- Teaching Children Critical Thinking
- Teaching Humane Values
- Teaching Techniques for a Humane Science Class
- Ten Questions People Ask About Becoming a Humane Educator
- The Art of Fund-Raising
- The Components of a Complete Board
- The Deterioration of a Shelter Dog
- The Future of Animal Shelters
- The Minimum Requirement Guide for Dogs in Shelters
- The Physical Examination
- The Purpose of Volunteer Management
- The Race for the Right House: Special Needs Adoption Candidates Campaign for Loving Homes
- The Shelter Worker's Guide to Pigs
- The Top 5 Reasons Associations Get Sued
- Tips for Implementing a Successful Youth Program
- Tips for Listing Rabbits on Petfinder.com
- Tips for Purebred Rescue Groups
- Tips for Successful Children's Programs
- Tips on How to Include Humane Education Into Daily Activities
- Understanding Adolescence for Working with Teens
- Understanding Shelter Medicine
- Valentine Appeal Letter
- Volunteer Viewpoint
- Warning Signs for Loss of Quality of Life for Dogs in Shelters
- We Who Wear Many Hats
- What to do About Compassion Fatigue
- What You Need to Know About Having Your Own Web Site
- Whole Lotta Love
- Why to Start a Dog Walking Program
- Wonderful Things Shelter are Doing
- Worker Safety in the Animal Shelter
- Year of the Shelter Animal
- Zoonosis
