This Resource Library includes Animal Sheltering magazine articles, HSUS publications, training opportunities, policies, guidelines, advice, and other resources to help you in your work on behalf of animals. We will continually add content to this library, so be sure to visit often.  

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A

Abuse and Neglect
Adoptions
After Hours/On-Call (see Field Services)
Aggression (see Behavior and Training)
Allergies to Pets
Alliances (see Coalition Building)
Animal Care and Handling
Animal Control (see Field Services)
Animal Fighting
Animal Transfer Programs
Architecture (see Shelter Design)

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B

Bedding (see Stress and Stress Reduction, Animals)
Behavior and Training
Behavior/Temperament Evaluation
Birds
Bite Prevention (see Dog Bites)
Board Development 
Bonds/Bond Referendums (see Laws, Legal Matters, and Regulations)
Breed Adoption Groups
Breed Identification
Breeders
Breed-Specific Legislation
Budgets

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C

Cage/Kennel Comfort (see Stress and Stress Reduction, Animals)
Calicivirus
Career Development
Cats
Certification
Chaining and Tethering
Children's Programs (see Humane Education)
Classroom Pets
Cleaning (see Disinfection and Cleaning)
Client/Customer Service
Clip Art/Reproducibles
Coalition Building
Collaboration (see Coalition Building)
Colony Housing
Comfort (see Stress and Stress Reduction, Animals)
Community Outreach
Community Service, Court-Ordered
Community Service, Volunteer (see Service Learning; see also Volunteer Management)
Compassion Fatigue (see Stress and Compassion Fatigue)
Computers, Software, and Internet
Conflict Resolution
Continuing Education
Contracts
Costs and Fees
Crisis Management
Cruelty (see Abuse and Neglect)
Cruelty Investigations (Investigations)
Cultural Diversity
Customer Service (see Client/Customer Service)

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D

Dangerous Dogs
Declawing
Development (see Fundraising)
Disaster Preparedness and Response
Disease Control
Disinfection and Cleaning
Dog Bites
Dog Fighting (see Animal Fighting)
Dog Parks
Dogs
Domestic Violence (see First Strike)
Drop Box (see Field Services, see Operations)

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E

Employee Assistance Programs
Equine
Equipment
Euthanasia
Evaluation, Program and Organizational
Events
Exotic Animals (see Wildlife and Exotic Animals)

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F

Facilities (see Shelter Design)
Farm Animals
Feeding Protocols
Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV)
Feral Cats
Field Services
Financial Planning (see Budgets)
First Strike
Forms
Formulas
Foster Care Programs
Free-Roaming Cats
Fundraising

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G

Grants
Greyhound Racing

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H

Hayden Bill/Law (California) (see Laws, Legal Matters, and Regulations)
Health, Animal
Hoarding
Holiday Issues
Horses (see Equine)
"How To" Instructional Sheets
Human Resources
Human/Animal Bond
Humane Education
Humane Investigations (Investigations)

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I

Identification
Insurance, Shelter and Organizational
International
Internet (see Computers, Software, and Internet)
Internet Adoption Programs
Investigations
Isolation and Separation

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K

Kennel Cough
Kennel/Cage Comfort (see Stress and Stress Reduction, Animals)

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L

Law Enforcement
Laws, Legal Matters, and Regulations
Legislation (see Laws, Legal Matters, and Regulations)
Licensing
Limited Admission
Lost and Found

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M

Management
Marketing
Media Relations (see also Public Relations)
Memorials (see Pet Loss and Grief, see also Fundraising)
Microchipping
Military Pets
Mobile Adoptions (see Off-Site Adoptions and Adoptions)

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N

National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week
Newsletters
"No Kill" (see Limited Admission)

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O

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Off-Site Adoptions (also see Adoptions)
On-Call/After Hours (see Field Services)
Operations

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P

Panleukopenia
Parasites
Partnerships (see Coalition Building)
Parvovirus
Pediatric Sterilization
Pet Care
Pet Stores
Pocket Pets
Policies and Procedures
Positive Reinforcement (see Behavior and Training)
Pregnancy, Human (see Toxoplasmosis)
Public Relations (see also Media Relations)
Public Service Announcements
Puppy Mills

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Q

Quality of Life

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R

Rabbits
Rabies
Recognition, Staff and Volunteers
Record-Keeping
Relinquishment
Renting with Pets
Reptiles (see Wildlife and Exotic Animals)
Rescue Groups (see Breed Adoption Groups)
Research and Laboratory Animals

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S

Safety, Animal
Safety, Staff
Salary Data, Shelter Employees
Seasonal Issues
Security, Shelter Facilities
Senior Pet Owners
Service Learning
Shelter Design
Small Mammals
Social Marketing
Software (see Computers, Software, and Internet)
Spay/Neuter Programs
Special Events (see Events)
Standard Operating Procedures
Starting an Animal Organization
State Animal Control Associations and Humane Federations
Statistics
Sterilization (see Spay/Neuter Programs)
Strategic Planning
Stress and Compassion Fatigue
Stress and Stress Reduction, Animals
Studies, Surveys, Reports, and Research
Surveying Your Community

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T

Telephone Systems, Shelters
Temperament Testing (see Behavior/Temperament Evaluation)
Templates (see Forms)
Terminology
Toxoplasmosis
Training, Staff and Volunteer
Trap-Neuter-Return (see Feral Cats)

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U

Uniforms
Upper Respiratory Infection (URI)

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V

Vaccinations, Animals
Vaccinations, Human (see Safety, Staff)
Vehicles
Veterinary Resources
Volunteer Management

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W

Web (see Computers, Software, and Internet)
West Nile Virus
Wildlife and Exotic Animals
Wildlife Rehabilitation

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Z

Zoonotic Diseases