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Strategies for Successful Animal Shelters

  • 1st Edition - October 30, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Laura A. Reese
  • Language: English

Strategies for Successful Animal Shelters is the first book to assess the relationship between shelter traits, activities and critical outcome variables, such as live release o… Read more

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Description

Strategies for Successful Animal Shelters is the first book to assess the relationship between shelter traits, activities and critical outcome variables, such as live release or save rates. This book provides a data-based evaluation of shelter processes and practices with explicit recommendations for improved shelter activities. Using a survey of licensed animal shelters, case studies, and data on state inspections, complaints, and save rates, this book provides an assessment of the activities, processes, and procedures that are most likely to lead to positive outcomes for a variety of animal shelters.

The book also contributes to community debate around animal sheltering and provides best practices, methods and means to assess local shelters to ensure the highest level of animal welfare. It is a valuable resource for animal shelter professionals and rescue groups, as well as students in disciplines such as animal science, animal welfare and shelter medicine.

Key features

  • Offers best-practice recommendations and how they are used in animal shelters
  • Analyzes which shelter traits, programs and activities are most strongly associated with optimal outcomes, including live release rates
  • Includes an assessment of future research and activities to optimize animal welfare within shelters

Readership

Undergraduate, graduate students, and research professionals in animal science, shelter medicine, and animal welfare

Table of contents

1. The Difference a Shelter Makes: A Tale of Two Aces2. Best Practices in Animal Sheltering3. Methodology4. Activities and Practices5. Relationships Among Shelter Traits and Activities6. What Shelter Activities are associated with Positive Outcomes?7. At the Speed of Trust: Profiles of the Most Improved Shelters8. There are Many Ways to be the Best: Profiles of the Most Improved Shelters9. The Many Paths to Success: It's a Journey not a Destination

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 2, 2018
  • Language: English

About the author

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Laura A. Reese

Dr. Laura A. Reese is Professor Emeritus of Urban and Regional Planning at Michigan State University, President of Professional Animal Welfare Services, and Research Fellow at the Riley Center at the College of Charleston. She was the Founding Director of the Global Urban Studies Program (GUSP) at Michigan State University. Her main research and teaching areas are in animal shelter management, urban policy, economic development, and local governance, management, and planning. She brings an organizational psychology perspective to the planning and successful management of volunteer efforts and has written 14 books on the topic, including Elsevier’s Strategies for Successful Animal Shelters and Fostering and the Human-Animal Bond.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

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