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  • 1.  Big Dog Master Class Block 4: Focus on 'long stay' dogs

    Posted 03-29-2022 12:50 PM

    Updated 3/31 at 12:38pm PT - Recording is now available to watch on-demand in Maddie's University. You can complete a quiz about this session to earn CAWA, NACA and RACE CE: https://university.maddiesfund.org/products/big-dog-master-class-block-4-focus-on-long-stay-dogs

    Proven strategies to help ‘long stay’ dogs find homes 

    Please use this thread to ask follow-up questions to our presenters about this session. Any questions that we don't get a chance to answer during the live Q&A session will be answered here.

    Presenter: Rachel Jones, Urgent Dog Case Manager, Pima Animal Care Center


    @Rachel Jones (she/her) entered animal welfare in 2017 as a behavior dog foster for Ventura County Animal Services. By 2018, her foster-zealotry had consumed her so entirely that she moved to Arizona to work as one part of a new 4-person foster team at Pima Animal Care Center #thankstomaddie. During her time as a foster coordinator, she helped build one of the nation’s largest big dog foster programs, hosted numerous dog foster apprenticeships, wrote articles and presented on dog foster and volunteer programs for Maddie’s Fund, Austin Pets Alive! and the Missouri Coalition of Animal Care Organizations. In 2021, she worked with ASU’s Canine Science Collaboratory to coordinate a 40-dog study on the effects of foster care on shelter dogs and began developing an online shelter handling course for Maddie’s Fund. She is currently PACC’s Urgent Dog Case Manager where she partners with volunteers to support harder-to-place dogs in-shelter and offer post-placement support to their fosters and adopters. Her favorite things in life are naughty dogs and when people include bullet points in emails. She also makes silly videos sometimes.

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    The ‘warehousing’ conundrum and how to address it
    Presenter: Kristen Hassen, MA, Director, American Pets Alive! and Human Animal Support Services


    @Kristen Hassen is the Maddie’s® Director of American Pets Alive!, overseeing the Human Animal Support Services project, the Maddie’s® Learning Academy, and AmPA!’s lifesaving initiatives. Previously, she served as the Director of Pima Animal Care Center, the open-admission animal services department in Tucson, Arizona, and before that, the Deputy Director of Austin Animal Center, in Austin, Texas. Kristen is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Arizona’s Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Animal Control Association. Kristen writes and teaches nationally and internationally on a variety of subjects including animal services organizational restructuring, transforming animal services culture, progressive animal control, high volume foster programs, animal welfare as social justice movement, crisis communications, community-centered sheltering practices, the Human Animal Support Services elements, and the future of animal welfare volunteer programs.

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    alison gibson
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  • 2.  RE: Big Dog Master Class Block 4: Focus on 'long stay' dogs

    Posted 03-29-2022 06:23 PM
    Resources for Session 4A: Proven strategies to help 'long stay' dogs find homes – @Rachel Jones (she/her)



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    Christie Keith
    Maddie's Million Pet Challenge
    Davisburg, Michigan
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  • 3.  RE: Big Dog Master Class Block 4: Focus on 'long stay' dogs

    Posted 03-29-2022 06:25 PM
    Session 4B: The 'warehousing' conundrum and how to address it – @Kristen Hassen



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    Christie Keith
    Maddie's Million Pet Challenge
    Davisburg, Michigan
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  • 4.  RE: Big Dog Master Class Block 4: Focus on 'long stay' dogs

    Posted 03-30-2022 01:12 PM
    Question from attendee: What parameters for success should be measured besides LRR?

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    Christie Keith
    Maddie's Million Pet Challenge
    Davisburg, Michigan
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  • 5.  RE: Big Dog Master Class Block 4: Focus on 'long stay' dogs

    Posted 03-30-2022 01:13 PM
    Question from attendee: What is the best way to improve transparency with volunteers to let them know a dog's behavior is declining or making it at risk? What are the next steps then - do they have a specific amount of time to improve?

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    Christie Keith
    Maddie's Million Pet Challenge
    Davisburg, Michigan
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  • 6.  RE: Big Dog Master Class Block 4: Focus on 'long stay' dogs

    Posted 03-30-2022 01:14 PM
    Question from attendee: Do you think there is enough investment in staff and volunteer training in shelters to ensure there is consistant messaging and ethical approach to training and rehoming? Where do adopters find good up to date information and do we have a duty to ensure they leave the shelter with their new dog with support either from the shelter or an alternative source?

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    Christie Keith
    Maddie's Million Pet Challenge
    Davisburg, Michigan
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  • 7.  RE: Big Dog Master Class Block 4: Focus on 'long stay' dogs

    Posted 04-01-2022 11:56 AM
    Including volunteers in conversations and brainstorming sessions about what to do is probably the most effective way I've found for building transparency and having support in doing so. Laying out what you're seeing, why you're concerned for this dog, what is being done and what can be done before x, y, z - Showing that you are both trying and respect their feedback is what gets the buy in.

    The big clincher is the follow-through on what's decided in those sessions though. If nothing discussed is implemented, it will be seen as performative instead of genuine.

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    Rachel Jones
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  • 8.  RE: Big Dog Master Class Block 4: Focus on 'long stay' dogs

    Posted 04-01-2022 12:07 PM
    I think there are many and hopefully others will chime in on this but the below are some big ones.

    - Length of stay
    - Rate of return
    - Return to owner rate
    - Diversion rate 
    - If you have a system for behavior designations you can use to track behavioral decline or progress that may be a good indicator of how effective your in-shelter enrichment programs are

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    Rachel Jones
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  • 9.  RE: Big Dog Master Class Block 4: Focus on 'long stay' dogs

    Posted 03-31-2022 07:53 PM
    @Rachel Jones (she/her) and @Kristen Hassen, just wanted to make sure you were aware there are some questions for you on this post! :)​​

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    Christie Keith
    Maddie's Million Pet Challenge
    Davisburg, Michigan
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