How to Reduce Shelter Intake: What One Advocate Is Building
Roughly 5.8 million dogs and cats entered U.S. shelters last year. That number has barely moved in 5 years, and BJ Adkins concluded that what animal welfare is doing about it isn't working.
After years as a foster, she founded Animals Angels and started building a prevention network across a 7-county area in the Birmingham metro in Alabama. Not a rescue. A set of programs designed to reach families before they're standing at a shelter counter with a pet they can't keep. She's a disabled veteran and the author of The Shift to Prevention.
In this episode, you'll learn:
Why the prevention…
The skinny
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