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If a shelter is aiming to achieve no euthanasia or 100% live release and they’re doing everything right…guess what? When I step into the future and see communities who have...

Word on the Street with Lily Yap, MBA

May 29, 2024, The Association

Deep thoughts, good advice and tough talk on hot topics Welcome to our new column featuring brief, power-packed statements and sentiments from your colleagues in the animal welfare profession. Members,...

Shelterer or Rehomer?

April 29, 2024, Dr. Emily Weiss

Which one are you? There is one shift that can make all the difference for increasing live outcomes and supporting more at-risk animals. It is a philosophical shift from keeping...

Hot Topic: 3 Questions about a Shelter’s Guiding Principles with Joe Elmore

April 24, 2024, Joe Elmore, CAWA, CFRE

We officially introduced the nine tenets of People & Animals In Community Together (PACT) this week, along with a toolkit of resources to support this initiative. Here’s what one of...

Let’s Get Rid of “Them”

April 16, 2024, Dr. Emily Weiss

Dr. Weiss encourages us to pull back from assumptions about the folks who come through our doors. They just might be us. In my years and years (damn it…and years)...

#WHM2024, Part 3: Things Change Quickly

March 30, 2024, Amy-Jo Sites, MPA, CAWA

Our three-part series in honor of Women’s History Month wraps up with smart advice and a strong dose of resilience from the Director of Fort Wayne Animal Care & Control....

#WHM2024, Part 2: Nothing Short of Fearless

March 22, 2024, Sharon Harvey

Our Women’s History Month series continues with powerful, inspiring words from the dynamic President & CEO of Cleveland APL. I’ve been an animal welfare leader for almost 21 years. Although...

#WHM2024, Part I: Plenty of Light to Go Around

March 16, 2024, Meredith Jones

Welcome to our Women’s History Month series, featuring the experiences of women leaders in animal welfare. Meredith Jones of Operation Kindness kicks us off with a focus on the importance...

It’s Not All Going to Sh*t

March 10, 2024, Dr. Emily Weiss

Dr. Emily Weiss poses an alternative to feeling overwhelmed and hopeless about the state of animal sheltering The other day I saw yet another article focusing on the crisis in...

What’s In Your Budget?

February 20, 2024, Leah Craig Chumbley

Here’s what happened when the leadership team at Brother Wolf Animal Rescue got CE funding When Leah Craig Chumbley told several of the Brother Wolf Animal Rescue leadership team members...

Too Many Animals In Care, Not Enough Adoptions

February 9, 2024, Emily Tolliver