Facebook’s recently made some of changes that might affect how you promote your available pets and your organization.

Dr. Brian Di Gangi, a clinical assistant professor of shelter medicine at the University of Florida, wants you to add something to your imagined definition of animal shelter ‘daily rounds’: facility rounds.

Have you been wondering how you can impose order upon chaos in your animal shelter or rescue organization? Do you wish you could find a way to do more surgeries or give more vaccines to the animals in your care? Ever wonder why your new hires just don’t seem to “get it”?

At animal shelters, where the cost of a staff member’s mistake could be the life of an animal, training is one of the most critical elements of successful operations.

Pet adoption advocates often resent the fact that special needs pets tend to get so much more media attention and adoption interest than other pets in their facility. But those high-profile pets are often the shelter’s best opportunity to engage their community, raise money, and find more homes for all their pets.

Animal-care organizations often have limited resources to provide ongoing training and development for employees and volunteers, but there are plenty of free or low-cost ways to keep your staff members engaged on the job and to advance their skills.

When it comes to learning more about animal shelter management and medicine, shelter staff members are turning increasingly to online educational opportunities. During the summer and fall of 2010, Maddie's Fund® asked its funded partners and newsletter subscribers to help us better understand their needs when it comes to shelter health information and resources. Of… Learn More

The American Society for Training and Development recommends a minimum of 40 hours per year in ongoing training and development for all employees. That’s a figure most animal shelters and rescue groups aren’t even getting close to.

There’s a new acronym in town, and some animal advocates are finding it a little confusing. What exactly is the difference between “TNR” and “SNR” when it comes to community cats?

When it comes to training their staff members and volunteers, animal shelters aren’t putting it in writing — or reaching their team members, either.