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Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)
Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF) saves the lives of countless animals each year whose time has run out in public shelters and who are scheduled to be killed. ARF's team of trained volunteers and expert staff make sure every animal receives proper nutrition, medical evaluation and treatment, training and lots of love as they await their new forever home. ARF's shelter touches the lives of thousands of animals and people each year.
ARF saves dogs and cats who have run out of time at public shelters and brings people and animals together to enrich each others lives.
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Give a Dog a Bone/Corine Dowling
Corinne Dowling is the Founder, Director and Primary Dog Handler of Give a Dog a Bone, a non-profit program that serves the needs of dogs in long-term shelter care. Give a Dog a Bone was created in 1999 to relieve the isolation, boredom, stress, and suffering of dogs in enforced custody and medical isolation - a population hitherto not served by the dog volunteer program at San Francisco Animal Care and Control (ACC), an open admissions municipal shelter.
Corinne and ChivaThese dogs are separate from the ordinary shelter population (strays, surrenders, and dogs available for adoption). A dog can be in protective custody for many reasons, including but not limited to, a cruelty or neglect case, a dog's owner has been arrested, evicted, or hospitalized, there is a legal investigation involving a bite complaint, or a dog is in medical necessary quarantine.
With her dedicated volunteers, Corinne improves the quality of life for these dogs by providing enrichment though emotional sustenance, mental and physical stimulation, socialization and kennel stimuli. When we can, we form play groups to provide canine companionship and provide some novelty and joy in this primary fashion.
Corinne with German ShepardsEspecially challenging is the environmental enrichment of dogs who cannot leave their kennels. For these dogs, we have found we can provide companionship and stimulation via any number of interactions. For example: "Find it" (find the treat tossed into the kennel), recalls, tug, sit, up, down, give paw, go to bed, targeting, dance, and "get me", where we call the dog back and forth in its double run and a variety of other interactions. Your imagination is a kenneled dog's close friend.
While Give a Dog a Bone strives to maintain and improve the quality of life for long-term shelter dogs, it is a program that would be appropriate for any shelter canines. In the planning stages are a video and manual about GADAB techniques that will be shared with other animal agencies upon request.
Many of the enrichment techniques used in Give a Dog a Bone are applicable to homed and foster dogs as well.
Corinne has presented on environmental enrichment at the Conference for Homeless Animals Management Policy (CHAMP), Guide Dogs for the Blind, the California Animal Control Director's Association (CACDA) and the Animal Rescue Conference. Her work has been acknowledged by the ASPCA, the San Francisco SPCA, Animal Farm Foundation, the Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF), the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the San Francisco Commission of Animal Control and Welfare and PetSmart Charities. The San Francisco Department of Animal Care and Control has strongly supported Corinne's Program since its inception.
Over the years, she has shared her home with three well-loved American Pit Bull Terriers and many cherished cats. Currently she lives with an engaging young Min Pin/Chi mix and one elderly chatty cat. She enjoys baseball, gardening, and further educating herself in the field of animal welfare, not necessarily in that order. She is a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers.
For more information on Give a Dog a Bone, please download our brochure. Click here to download PDF file(880KB).
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Asilomar Accords
"We all have the same goal—to help animals—and we always have. But in the past we focused on minor differences instead of focusing on what we could accomplish if we worked together. Hopefully, the Asilomar Accords will change that way of thinking."
— Bob Rohde
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Kansas Humane Society
An innovative shelter:
One of the oldest non-profit organizations in the Wichita area, the Kansas Humane Society was founded in 1888 by community leaders with recognizable places in Wichita's early history, including
A.A. Hyde, William Mathewson, William Innes, Dr. A.H. Fabrique, and W.E. Stanley. At that time, other humane societies were forming all across the United States, focusing their efforts mostly on horses, who were often misused and neglected in industry and trade. Humane groups were also among the first advocates for children. But as automobiles replaced horses, and as other agencies developed to help children, humane societies turned more of their attention to the plight of dogs and cats. For over a 100 years, the Kansas Humane Society has provided shelter to homeless animals and promoted the welfare of animals in the Wichita area.
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Understand a bull
Information about breed specific legislation.ds
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Study on Electric Shock Collars:
IAABC (International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants) www.iaabc.org
Study on Electric Shock Collars: http://www.iaabc.org/articles/
Ecollar_IAABCJournal_Spring2007.pdf
http://www.iaabc.org/articles/ECS_Systems.pdf
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SFSCPA Cat Behavior
Link to the cat behavior department at SFSPCA
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Cat Behavior Blog
Daniel Quagliozzi runs this nice blog of cat behavior advice.
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