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An adoption transfers ownership, which puts a cross-border rescue transport outside the pet passport regulation entirely. The sending establishment must be approved by its competent authority, and every animal needs an official health certificate issued within 48 hours of departure.
Dogs · Best PracticesPublished return rates for adopted dogs and cats run from 7% to 20%, but the figure your organization reports depends mostly on where you draw the cut-off. The published studies disagree about when returns happen, and that disagreement is the useful part.
DogsA dog that's been passed over for months doesn't need a new kennel — it needs a day at the lake and a photo of itself asleep on someone's couch. Here's how to stand up a field trip and sleepover program that actually moves dogs out the door.
DogsA dog in your care bit someone and now there's a 10-day hold. Handled well, it's ten boring days and a clean release. Handled badly, it's a panicked adopter, a euthanasia order, or a rabies scare that didn't need to happen. Here's how to run it right.
DogsA dog that paces, spins, and lunges at the kennel front is often a normal dog breaking down in a bad environment — not a dangerous one. Here's how to spot kennel stress early, tell it apart from a real behavior problem, and pull a dog back from the edge.
MedicalSix squirming, near-identical puppies, each on their own two-week clock for shots and dewormer — miss a dose and you can leave a whole litter open to parvo. Here's the schedule that actually protects them, and the system that keeps you from losing track.
DogsA foster dog that panics when left alone can look identical to a dog that's just adjusting — and getting the two mixed up is how good dogs get mislabeled, mistreated, or returned. Here's how to tell them apart and run a protocol that actually helps.
MedicalA skeletal dog lands on your intake table and every instinct says feed it, now, as much as it wants. That instinct can kill it. Here's how to bring a starved dog back without triggering refeeding syndrome.
MedicalThe rescue calls and asks if you can take a pregnant dog "any day now." Saying yes means you're about to run a delivery room. Here's how to prepare, what a normal whelping looks like, and the red lines that mean you stop watching and call the vet.
DogsYou can run an adoption event where twelve dogs sit on the pavement all afternoon, or one where four go home and the rest come back calmer than they left. The difference is almost never the dogs. It's the planning.
MedicalA dog comes in half-bald, scabbed, and scratching itself raw, and everyone assumes the worst. If it's sarcoptic mange, it's one of the most satisfying fixes in rescue — contagious, treatable, and dramatic. Here's how to tell, treat it, and keep it from running through your other dogs.
MedicalBy the time you hear the first dog coughing, the ones it infected three days ago are already shedding without a symptom. Here's how to get ahead of kennel cough instead of chasing it kennel to kennel.
DogsMost foster-dog fights don't happen because the dogs hate each other. They happen because someone rushed the first meeting in the living room. Here's the slow, boring, fight-free way to put two dogs together.
DogsEvery found dog you take in as a rescue case might be somebody's lost dog that's been missing for six hours. Before it becomes an intake number, run the owner search — it's faster, cheaper, and the right outcome for the dog.
MedicalParvo in a foster-based rescue isn't one sick puppy, it's a network of homes, cars, and volunteers that all just got connected to a virus that lives for months. The first 48 hours decide whether you lose one dog or ten.
Colony & TNRA transport run is the most dangerous hour your dogs will have all month — a parking lot full of strangers, open crate doors, and slip leads. Most things that go wrong are paperwork or process, not bad luck. Here's how to run one that ends with every dog where it's supposed to be.
DogsA friendly dog comes in, and six weeks later it's spinning in its run and lunging at the gate. That's not the dog's temperament — it's the kennel. Here's a practical enrichment system that keeps long-stay dogs stable and adoptable.
MedicalA positive heartworm test scares a lot of rescues into passing on a perfectly adoptable dog. The treatment is long and the rules are strict, but it's routine. Here's how to move a dog from diagnosis to adoption without losing your nerve.
DogsThe dog your foster meets on day one is a dog in survival mode, not the dog they'll adopt out. Most failed placements come from judging a dog too early. Here's the decompression plan to give every dog before you decide who they are.
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