The Future of Sheltering
What will animal shelters look like in the years ahead – in 2030, 2040, 2050? What functions will they serve in their communities? These are questions that have not received …
January 1, 2018
This blog takes a look at the big trends in No Kill in 2017, but first I want to say a word about sheltering in 2018. We’ve made tremendous progress …
The Future of Sheltering
This is the fifth and final blog in my series on the professionalization of the animal shelter, and it covers an important part of professionalization – planning for the future. …
On the Same Page
In the last few years, the idea that traditional shelters are fundamentally at odds with No Kill shelters has been evaporating. Traditional and No Kill shelters are quickly coming together …
Creating A Safety Net for Pets
An animal shelter is more than just the sum of its internal programs. It’s also a public institution that has an interlocking relationship with its surrounding community. In recent years …
The Professionalization of Animal Sheltering, Part 1: Inventory Management
In the last few years several new programs have become central to the professionalization of animal sheltering. One theme common to those programs is management of inventory. In the old …
The Professionalization of Animal Sheltering: Introduction to Series
In recent years the animal-shelter industry has made giant strides in professionalizing its operations. This blog post is an introduction to an Out the Front Door series about changes in …
Know Your LOS
Length of Stay (LOS) is the amount of time that an animal spends in a shelter between impoundment and disposition. It is a particularly important measure for No Kill shelters, …
A Window of Opportunity to Make Houston No Kill
Harris County and the city of Houston have five major intake shelters. In 2005, a city task force reported that annual intake at the five shelters was about 120,000 animals, …
How “Clear the Shelters” Got Started
It was the summer of 2014, and Corey Price had a problem. She had recently taken over as manager of Irving Animal Services (IAS), in the city of Irving, Texas, …