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Animal Aid (Coldstream) Reviews


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A Compassionate Director 1 average
1 posted by JMC, on 2025-07-22 01:32:23
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Proactive Redemptions 2.3 average
1 posted by JMC, on 2025-07-22 01:30:19
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1 posted by [email protected], on 2025-07-19 05:36:13
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5 posted by Sarah, on 2013-09-10 00:15:17
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Volunteers 2 average
1 posted by JMC, on 2025-07-22 01:30:02
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1 posted by [email protected], on 2025-07-19 05:34:49
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4 posted by Sarah, on 2013-09-10 00:05:00
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Public Relations/Community Involvement 2.7 average
2 posted by JMC, on 2025-07-22 01:27:08
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1 posted by [email protected], on 2025-07-19 05:32:51
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5 posted by Sarah, on 2013-09-10 00:10:32
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Medical and Behavior Programs 1 average
1 posted by JMC, on 2025-07-22 01:26:42
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1 posted by [email protected], on 2025-07-19 05:29:57
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Pet Retention 1 average
1 posted by JMC, on 2025-07-22 01:21:30
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1 posted by [email protected], on 2025-07-19 05:27:03
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Comprehensive Adoption Programs 1 average
1 posted by JMC, on 2025-07-22 01:21:19
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1 posted by [email protected], on 2025-07-19 05:26:25
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Foster Care 1 average
1 posted by JMC, on 2025-07-22 01:20:51
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1 posted by [email protected], on 2025-07-19 05:23:24
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High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter 1 average
1 posted by JMC, on 2025-07-22 01:18:48
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Rescue Groups 1 average
1 posted by [email protected], on 2025-07-19 05:19:47
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Animal Aid has recently been under the direction of the CEO's interim management team while actioning a "clean out" (the CEO's words). This has meant multiple euthanasias of cats deemed unsuitable, i.e, any cat showing basic signs of timidity during a 10 minute check by the business support partner who has insufficient qualification or knowledge to be making such decision. The interim management were offered videos of the supposedly unsociable cats showing them being stroked and progressing on the path to adoption. They refused to see the videos or listen to any staff or volunteers who had worked wit the cats. The euthanasias extended to include cats already passed for adoption, even one that a person had expressed interest in adopting. They were ignored, and the cat, Tika, was killed, despite the EOI, and despite video evidence. Animal Aid is defintely a Kill Shelter.
posted by [email protected], on 2025-07-19 05:46:39
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Aren't they under control of govt. Structure of euthanase compulsory after short time?
posted by RenaDale, on 2017-05-20 06:48:22
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Yes they are, I surrendered 3 wild kittens to them last week, at the time I was not told of the policy. I only found out when I went to surrender the 4th kitten today. One of the kittens has been unmanagable so will probably be put down. I am devastated, if I had have been told that in the first place I would never have left any of them. I had a heated disagreement with the Cattery Manager as I asked to have the cat back (under guidelines the cat has to be vet checked to be handed over but it's catch 22, the cat is too wild so it can't go to the vet!) and was unable to get any help from the Manager due to their guidelines. I am devastated. I have reached out to a couple of other genuine no-kill shelters to hopefully get some help and rescue the kitten.
posted by [email protected], on 2020-01-22 11:04:09
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1. Feral Cat TNR Program

Many communities are embracing Trap, Neuter, Release programs (TNR) to improve animal welfare, reduce death rates, and meet obligations to public welfare.


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2. High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter

Low cost, high volume spay/neuter will quickly lead to fewer animals entering the shelter system, allowing more resources to be allocated toward saving lives.


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3. Rescue Groups

An adoption or transfer to a rescue group frees up scarce cage and kennel space, reduces expenses for feeding, cleaning, killing, and improves a community's rate of lifesaving. In an environment of millions of dogs and cats killed in shelters annually, rare is the circumstance in which a rescue group should be denied an animal.


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4. Foster Care

Volunteer foster care is crucial to No Kill. Without it, saving lives is compromised. It is a low cost, and often no cost, way of increasing a shelter's capacity, improving public relations, increasing a shelter's public image, rehabilitating sick and injured or behaviorally challenged animals, and saving lives.


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5. Comprehensive Adoption Programs

Adoptions are vital to an agency's lifesaving mission. The quantity and quality of shelter adoptions is in shelter management's hands, making lifesaving a direct function of shelter policies and practice. In fact, studies show people get their animals from shelters only 20% of the time. If shelters better promoted their animals and had adoption programs responsive to the needs of the community, including public access hours for working people, offsite adoptions, adoption incentives, and effective marketing, they could increase the number of homes available and replace killing with adoptions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, shelters can adopt their way out of killing.


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6. Pet Retention

While some of the reasons animals are surrendered to shelters are unavoidable, others can be prevented-but only if shelters are willing to work with people to help them solve their problems. Saving animals requires communities to develop innovative strategies for keeping people and their companion animals together. And the more a community sees its shelters as a place to turn for advice and assistance, the easier this job will be.


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7. Medical and Behavior Programs

In order to meet its commitment to a lifesaving guarantee for all savable animals, shelters need to keep animals happy and healthy and keep animals moving through the system. To do this, shelters must put in place comprehensive vaccination, handling, cleaning, socialization, and care policies before animals get sick and rehabilitative efforts for those who come in sick, injured, unweaned, or traumatized.


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8. Public Relations/Community Involvement

Increasing adoptions, maximizing donations, recruiting volunteers and partnering with community agencies comes down to one thing: increasing the shelter's exposure. And that means consistent marketing and public relations. Public relations and marketing are the foundation of all a shelter's activities and their success. To do all these things well, the shelter must be in the public eye.


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9. Volunteers

Volunteers are a dedicated "army of compassion" and the backbone of a successful No Kill effort. There is never enough staff, never enough dollars to hire more staff, and always more needs than paid human resources. That is where volunteers come in and make the difference between success and failure and, for the animals, life and death.


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10. Proactive Redemptions

One of the most overlooked areas for reducing killing in animal control shelters are lost animal reclaims. Sadly, besides having pet owners fill out a lost pet report, very little effort is made in this area of shelter operations. This is unfortunate because doing so-primarily shifting from passive to a more proactive approach-has proven to have a significant impact on lifesaving and allow shelters to return a large percentage of lost animals to their families.


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11. A Compassionate Director

The final element of the No Kill equation is the most important of all, without which all other elements are thwarted-a hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired cliches or hide behind the myth of "too many animals, not enough homes." Unfortunately, this one is also oftentimes the hardest one to demand and find.


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