Resources

Rescue Waggin Canine Assessment Tool

Humane Education is a vital part of the equation in engaging your community to care about your organization and mission. Did you just find you are now on the “front lines” of this community outreach opportunity? This 60-minute Webinar will help you motivate, create, and celebrate with confidence Humane Education in all its forms.

The presenters have been there before and are ready to share their Humane Education survival secrets, helping you be a success on your first night out in the wilderness of community presentations. Learn the basics of running an educational program: from cognitive development stages, community programming, to speaking tips, and creating your very own Lesson Plans.

Guidelines, definitions, and priorities for PetSmart Charities' high-impact spay/neuter grants: Targeted Spay/Neuter and Free-Roaming Cat Spay/Neuter.

Just in time for World Spay Day! This hour-long webinar addresses some of the most common questions and issues faced by veterinary professionals during Spay Day clinics. Features three veteran World Spay Day participants, questions about medical protocols, logistics, and the challenges of working with new volunteers, clients and patients in a Spay Day clinic setting will be answered.

Specific issues to be discussed include setting parameters for the clients and animals serviced on World Spay Day, dealing with ill and pregnant animals, plans for emergency aftercare, working with lay volunteers, and client issues.

In 2009, PetSmart Charities undertook a national survey, administered by Ipsos research, in order to better understand the general public’s attitudes and understandings about pet adoption and spay/neuter.  In late 2011, the survey was re-administered, again to a large, national sample of the population, in order to determine which aspects of adoption and spay/neuter perceptions may have changed, and which remain the same.  What we found might surprise you, and will give professionals in animal welfare the opportunity to better understand their current and prospective clients: those who have adopted a pet, those who haven’t, and those whose pets may or may not be spayed/neutered.  Find out more about why pet owners (and those considering acquiring a pet) make the decisions they do and how we, as an industry, can help tear down the barriers to adoptions and spay/neuter in order to save the lives of more homeless pets.