Save Our Strays: How We Can End Pet Overpopulation and Stop Killing Healthy Cats and Dogs
Editorial Reviews
Animal People March 1999
"Since 1989 "The Book" in the animal care and control field has been the National Animal Control Association Training Guide. Now there is another: Save Our Strays, by Bob Christiansen. You need both - and they don't overlap.
The NACA Training Guide explains just about everything that an effective animal care and control department chief needs to know about how-to. Surprisingly little of the advice is outdated. Save Our Strays is an equally useful and thoughtful compendium of information about why animals enter shelters and what to do about it. based on the most extensive presentation of verified data that anyone has ever assembled. Author Bob Christiansen doesn't settle for single sources, common suppositions, or anyone's sloganeering. Instead, Christiansen collects and abstracts the findings of hundreds of separate studies to present a comprehensive portrait of the evolution of cat and dog demographics in the U.S., with emphasis on how shelters influence the numbers. To understand what he offers is to take the guesswork out of designing a cat and dog population control program.
Christiansen covers the principals, for instance, that one should consider in drafting an application for some of the $200 million that the Duffield Family Foundation has committed to joint programs for achieving no-kill communities. Save Our Strays is not a handbook for getting the money but you can bet that successful applicants consider all the aspects that Christiansen reviews. Strategic planning is only one aspect of the utility of Save Our Strays. It can also be handy in responding to media requests for statistics, especially of a comparative nature, and in preparing humane education programs.
As a dog trainer, shelter board member, former shelter director, and consultant to management animal control agencies and humane societies, some in notoriously difficult regions. Christiansen knows the field. His analysis is based on experience as well as numbers."
Book Description
"This book is a thorough compendium of information about why animals enter shelters and how to save their lives, based on the most extensive presentation of verified data that anyone has ever assembled." - Animal People
Save Our Strays: How We Can End Pet Overpopulation and Stop Killing Healthy Cats and Dogs
Save Our Strays: How We Can End Pet Overpopulation and Stop Killing Healthy Cats and Dogs,Bob Christiansen,Canine Learning Center,1884421490,Agriculture - Animal Husbandry,Animal Rights,Animals,Cats - General,Dogs - General,General,Pets
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