Shelter Mentorship program resources
Adoption
Community Outreach and Engagement
- HumanePro Store
- HASS Lost Pet Reunification
- Petco Love Lost – pet reunification
- Pets Are Welcome – advocating for pet-inclusive housing in your community
- Eviction Response Toolkit
- Pets For Life Program & Toolkit
Surrender prevention
- HSUS Resources for Pet Owners
- Guide to Cat Behavior Counseling – help cat owners solve common behavior issues that can lead to surrender
- Pet retention – everything you need to start your organization’s own pet retention program
- Human Animal Support Services’ Supported Self-Rehoming Toolkit – help community members find loving homes when they are unable to keep their pet
Spay/Neuter Programs
- ASPCA Spay/Neuter Alliance
- Association of Shelter Veterinarians Updated Spay/Neuter Guidelines
- Best Friends Animal Society's Spay/Neuter Resources Map
Disease Control, Shelter Health and Animal Care
- Guidelines for Standards of Care in Animal Shelters
- The Virtual Consultant
- The base concept for the Guidelines is the Five Freedoms:
- Freedom from hunger and thirst
- Freedom from discomfort
- Freedom from pain, injury and disease
- Freedom to express normal behavior
- Freedom from fear and distress
- The UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program
- The University of Wisconsin-Madison Shelter Medicine Program
- University of Florida Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program
- Relief Rover – Recruitment for relief veterinarians
- Vaccination guidelines for cats
- Vaccination guidelines for dogs
- Pets and Parasites
- American Heartworm Society
- Center for Shelter Dogs
- Exotic animal care:
- Herp and amphibian care
- Small mammals
- House Rabbit Society – rabbit care
- Avian Welfare Coalition – companion birds
- The Gabriel Foundation – parrots and other psittacine birds
- Guinea pigs
- Homes for Horses
- Wildlife:
- Access to Veterinary Care
- Waggle – crowdfunding for veterinary expenses
- Humane euthanasia resources – when euthanasia is the only option, ensure it’s performed as humanely as possible with our guide and other resources
- Euthanasia by Injection Manual
- Humane Pennsylvania’s Euthanasia Training Program
- University of Florida’s Online Graduate Program in Shelter Medicine – includes elective on humane euthanasia
Trap-Neuter-Return and Community Cats
- HSUS Return-to-Field Handbook
- DC Cat Count Toolkit
- HSUS how to manage a community cat colony
- Alley Cat Allies
- Best Friends Animal Society Community Cats Programs Handbook
- Million Cat Challenge
- Neighborhood Cats
Equine
Public & Shelter Policies
- HSUS Managing Community Cats: Guide for Municipal Leaders
- HSUS Municipal Pet Policy Toolkit
- Repealing Breed-Specific-Legislation
Grants
- HumanePro grants page
- The Grantsmanship Center – search for more funding sources by state
- Candid (formerly The Foundation Center)
- GrantSpace – tools for all things grant-writing and getting!
Operational and Administrative
- Rescue Group Best Practices
- HumanePro Staff & Volunteer Management Tools
- BoardSource
- University of North Carolina assessment programs – In partnership with Humane World for Animals, UNC offers three affordable services designed to help animal organizations become better places to work and volunteer by anonymously surveying their staff and volunteers!
- SeeDS – for organizations with 10 or more paid staff
- Volunteer Program Assessment – designed to assess your organization’s volunteer program
- Rescue Group Program Assessment – designed just for rescue groups
- Global Federation of Sanctuaries
- Maddie's Fund Animal Shelter Volunteer Management Program
Compassion Fatigue
- Compassion Fatigue Awareness Project
- Green Cross Academy of Traumatology
- HelpGuide Emotional Intelligence Toolkit
- MindTools.com
- Trauma Stewardship
Professional Development, Continuing Education and Training
The animal welfare field continues to evolve and change - there’s always something new to learn!
- HumanePro resources:
- HumanePro News – Get our biweekly e-mail newsletter and stay up to date on what’s new with HSUS’s offerings for shelters and rescue groups! Get the latest on events, publications, articles and more.
- Jobs
- Animal Sheltering magazine
- Training
- Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
- ASPCAPro
- PetSmart Charities
- Maddie’s Fund
- National Animal Control Association (NACA)
- PetfinderPro
- The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement (The Association)
- National conferences:
Shelter Data and Studies
- Shelter Animals Count – a collaborative effort to create standardized reporting and definitions for shelter statistics
- Animal Studies Repository
- Million Cat Challenge
- Faunalytics – Faunalytics finds and makes sense of research so advocates can use it to help animals
- Pets by the Numbers – our compilation of animal sheltering and pet data from HSUS’s own and others’ research
- ASPCA Pro Research
Spanish Language Resources
- Association of Shelter Veterinarians Shelter Standards Task Force
- Feral cat colony information in Spanish
- AVMA spanish language resources
- Humane Society International
- Alley Cat Allies
