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Rescue Groups 5 average
5 posted by DoreenTruscott, on 2019-03-01 17:21:34
It breaks my heart that a no-kill facility has to turn away an animal because there just isn't any room.
Feral Cat TNR Program 5 average
5 posted by DoreenTruscott, on 2019-03-01 17:17:40
Great program. It's not the kitty's fault some heartless human dumped them. This way there will be no babies that have to fend for themselves.
A Compassionate Director 5 average
5 posted by VernaRowleyCooper, on 2019-01-31 16:37:10
The work is too important and time consuming to deliver cliches or platitudes. The director and the rest of the team work tirelessly on the Dogwood mission.
Volunteers 5 average
5 posted by VernaRowleyCooper, on 2019-01-31 16:35:01
With multiple platforms to submit a volunteer application Dogwood seeks the much needed help from volunteers. Additionally, we participate with schools and organizations to introduce service to students.
Public Relations/Community Involvement 5 average
5 posted by VernaRowleyCooper, on 2019-01-31 16:33:00
Dogwood is an integral part of the lake area community. Ongoing programs throughout the year to recruit volunteers and educating the public is paramount to the long term success of meeting the mission set out by Dogwood Animal Shelter.
Medical and Behavior Programs 5 average
5 posted by VernaRowleyCooper, on 2019-01-31 16:31:10
Dogwood's mission commitment to the animals is unmatched.
Comprehensive Adoption Programs 5 average
5 posted by VernaRowleyCooper, on 2019-01-31 16:29:42
Dogwood has a robust adoption and community outreach program, which is supported by various media organizations.
Foster Care 5 average
5 posted by VernaRowleyCooper, on 2019-01-31 16:28:55
Many times when animals need 24 Hour feeding schedules or any other monitoring. We have a qualified and compassionate group to complete those needs.
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Dogwood Animal Shelter is a wonderful place! They take really good care of the animals they rescue and are very conscientious about who they allow to adopt. We adopted two sisters from Dogwood and they are a very much loved addition to our family. Highly recommend!
posted by (empty name), on 2019-03-16 02:23:40
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This is a great shelter. I have adopted several dogs from there over the years. Staff is friendly and knowledgeable. I have also taken advantage of their reduced cost spay and neuter clinic for three cats. I would recommend them for anyone looking for a new family member.
posted by TerryTabor, on 2019-03-10 03:03:12
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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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