SHELTER MANAGEMENT
WHAT IS SHELTER MANAGEMENT ?
Management needs to focus on keeping the standards of the ‘shelter on a level of Animal welfare, which meets the individual animal needs, ensuring their 5 freedoms of welfare as well as keeping the ‘shelters personnel and bank account in a healthy state. Everyone can rescue an animal, but can they commit to keep this animal for the rest of their life? keeping into account that not all animals get adopted. To each adopted animal there will be several long–stayers‘ that you have committed to for the rest of their lives.
By: Loes Schure, DVM, M.VSc
Each individual animal cost adds up every single day. For example: food, veterinary bills, medication, salary caretakers, replacing utensils and maintenance shelter and so on.. Shelter management needs to be able to cover and commit to an animals “whole–life care“.
