In order to meet its commitment to a lifesaving guarantee for all savable animals, shelters need to keep animals happy and healthy and keep animals moving through the system.
To do this, shelters must put in place comprehensive vaccination, handling, cleaning, socialization, and care policies before animals get sick and rehabilitative efforts for those who come in sick, injured, unweaned, or traumatized. Increasing adoptions, maximizing donations, recruiting volunteers and partnering with community agencies comes down to one thing: increasing the shelter's exposure.
And that means consistent marketing and public relations. Public relations and marketing are the foundation of all a shelter's activities and their success. To do all these things well, the shelter must be in the public eye. Volunteers are a dedicated "army of compassion" and the backbone of a successful No Kill effort.
There is never enough staff, never enough dollars to hire more staff, and always more needs than paid human resources. That is where volunteers come in and make the difference between success and failure and, for the animals, life and death. One of the most overlooked areas for reducing killing in animal control shelters are lost animal reclaims. Sadly, besides having pet owners fill out a lost pet report, very little effort is made in this area of shelter operations. This is unfortunate because doing so-primarily shifting from passive to a more proactive approach-has proven to have a significant impact on lifesaving and allow shelters to return a large percentage of lost animals to their families.
The final element of the No Kill equation is the most important of all, without which all other elements are thwarted-a hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired cliches or hide behind the myth of "too many animals, not enough homes. One thing before you go…. Do you need to find a loving home for your pet?
Shelters are often inundated with pet surrenders, and do not want to provide a simple outlet that takes away the obligation of responsible pet ownership. Homeward Bound Animal Rescue, Inc.
Bedford Bedford, TX. Humane Society of Odessa Odessa, Texas. Kathleen C. Cailloux Humane Society of Kerrville. Kaufman County Cats, Inc. Kaufman, TX. Operation Kindness Carrollton, TX. Paws of Austin Austin, Texas. Corpus Christi Corpus Christi, Texas. Main Content. Tall Tails Rescue. Fort Worth, TX. Adoption Policy Most of our dogs are located at our headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, but will be brought to one of our east or west coast adoption locations that we transport to monthly.
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