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Shelter and Rescue Work

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Public Relations and Working With the Media

In chapter 9 of Best Friends Animal Society's Grassroots Advocacy Toolkit, you'll learn tips for bringing your message about saving homeless pets to the media.

Woman holding a Chihuahua-type dog speaking into a Spectrum News microphone

Animal Shelters and Rescues Partner to Save Pets

An experienced animal rescuer explains how shelters can work with rescues to save shelter animals.

Black senior dog who was in the shelter before being pulled by a breed-specific rescue group and then adopted by woman in photo

What Shelter and Field Services Staff Should Know About Community Cats

Learn the facts and myths about community cats and trap-neuter-vaccinate-return (TNVR) that animal shelter and field services staff should understand.

Medium-haired black community cat (feral cat) hiding behind some grass

How to Start an Animal Rescue Group

Here's a comprehensive guide for how to start an animal rescue group, including preliminary planning, obtaining 501(c)(3) nonprofit status, setting a budget, and presenti...

two dogs with a couple who run their own small animal rescue group

Recruiting Volunteers for Nonprofit Organizations

Guide provides advice on volunteers for nonprofits and other organizations, and then preparing, training, and keeping volunteers busy and happy.

Volunteer with red parrot. Recruiting volunteers for nonprofits can be important for helping the animals.

Pet Profiles: How to Write a Pet Adoption Bio

Learn how to write winning pet profiles and/or adoption bios for dogs, cats, and other animals to advertise them to individuals, shelters, and rescue groups.

Humane Animal Control Manual

Humane Animal Control manual, assembled by Best Friends Animal Society, describes lifesaving municipal shelter programs for dogs and cats.

Animal control officer holding a cat in front of some kennels at a municipal shelter

Animal Fundraising Ideas: Get More Donations

How to raise money to help homeless dogs and cats: This comprehensive Best Fiends Animal Society resource provides tips and ideas.

Get animal fundraising ideas to help raise money to care for shelter pets like this sweet white-and-black pitbull.

Enrichment for Shelter Cats

Shelter cat enrichment resource outlines reasons for, benefits of, and various forms of enhancing felines' lives and provides sample enrichment plans.

White and gray cat in a kennel playing with an interactive toy, with a pink enclosed bed

How Organizations Can Engage and Retain Volunteers

Manual from Best Friends Animal Society covers how to recruit, engage and retain volunteers.

Young volunteers working with a shelter dog

Animal Shelter Dogs: Promoting Them for Adoption

This action kit gives instructions of how to promote shelter dogs for adoption. Get tips on promoting individual dogs and holding adoption events.

There are many ways to promote animal shelter dogs like this pooch, aptly named Charmer.

Animal Rescue Insurance

This animal rescue insurance guide covers types of insurance available for nonprofit animal organizations and good practices to minimize risk of loss.

Two shelter dogs playing is harmless enough but could get out of hand. To protect your animal rescue organization, you should invest in animal rescue insurance.

Animal Shelter Fundraising Ideas

This guide covers animal shelter fundraising fundamentals: developing a fundraising plan, strategies to raise money, grant writing and more.

Use animal shelter fundraising strategies to help sweet pitbull puppies like these balls of love.

How to Start an Animal Sanctuary

Learn the basics of how to start an animal sanctuary or rescue, including considerations like providing shelter, vet care, and food; legal issues; fundraising; adoptions;...

Parrot educating a group of students at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah

Enrichment for Dogs in Shelters

This action kit provides ways to provide enrichment for shelter dogs, improving their day-to-day lives in the shelter and increasing their adoptability.

This pitbull dog is enjoying agility training, an enrichment activity offered in some specialized programs at animal shelters.

Creating an Online Orientation for Animal Foster Care Volunteers

Rescue groups and shelters may want to consider creating an animal foster care volunteers online orientation option to acquire more pet foster homes.

Man cradling a tortoiseshell colored cat in his arms