Resources for animal sheltering & advocacy
Do you work or volunteer with a humane society, SPCA or other organization that helps animals? Then this page is for you! We’ve compiled some great resources to help spread knowledge of best practices in animal sheltering and animal welfare advocacy.
Have something you’d like to recommend for this page? Please let us know at info@cfhs.ca.
Animal sheltering
CFHS Shelter Operations Manual (2009)
This manual on how to operate an animal shelter was written by Dr. Ernest Olfert and produced by the CFHS in 2009. It is a comprehensive, 86-page manual that covers shelter sanitation, basic animal care, veterinary care, environmental enrichment and more.
We are happy to make this resource available to any humane society, SPCA or other organization running an animal shelter. To have a copy sent to you, please send a request to info@cfhs.ca, or call us at 1-888-678-2347 ext. 12.
Guidelines for Standards of Care in Animal Shelters (2010)
From the Association of Shelter Veterinarians
Disease Management: Feline URI
From the American SPCA
Disease Management: Canine Parvovirus
From the American SPCA
Fostering, adoption & rehoming
Foster Care: A Critical Link Between Shelters and Forever Homes
From the American Humane Association
Starting a Foster Program
From the Tompkins County SPCA
Shelters get creative and boost cat adoptions [other file: 0.12mb] – An article originally published in the CFHS newsletter Animal Welfare in Focus, Spring 2011, with extra tips for increasing adoptions.
Increase Adoptions: Fee-Waived Adoptions – More shelters are discovering that waiving adoption fees is an excellent way to find new homes for homeless animals, including “slow movers” such as adult cats.
From the American SPCA
How to Write Pet Profiles to Find Good Homes for Your Adoptables
From Best Friends Animal Society
Humane education
CFHS Humane Education Kit for JK to Grade 8 (2008) [other file: 4.15mb]
Spay/neuter
Pet overpopulation & spay/neuter fund fact sheet [pdf file: 1.78mb] – To be used to help municipal governments understand the need for funding of affordable spay/neuter programs. From the BC SPCA.
Messaging Spay/Neuter: Lessons from the Gulf Coast Spay/Neuter Campaign (2009)
From the Humane Society of the United States
Report on Low-cost Spay/Neuter Programs in Canada (2007) [other file: 0.08mb]
From the Spay Neuter Resource Group
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Three websites to bookmark
The following three websites provide a massive wealth of resources on nearly every animal rescue & sheltering topic under the sun.
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Free-roaming cats – Issues and new ideas for their survial webinar
On March 19th the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies in association with the PEI Humane Society and the Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre at the Atlantic Veterinary College, UPEI, Charlottetown, PEI hosted a webinar titled Free-roaming cats, Issues and new ideas for their survival presented by Dr. Margaret Slater of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
View a recorded version of the webinar here
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