Guides, tips, and stories for animal rescue organizations.
A guinea pig arrives on a bag of muesli, alone, in a cage the size of a shoebox — and it's already hiding the illness that will kill it. Here's how to run the intake so it doesn't.
A surrendered guinea pig usually arrives alone, on the wrong food, hiding an illness it's hardwired to conceal — and if it's a mixed-sex pair, one of them may already be pregnant. Here's the intake that catches all of it before it becomes an emergency.
Someone got in over their head, or the city sent a notice, and now there's a flock that needs to go somewhere. Here's how to intake surrendered chickens without infecting the birds you already have or breaking a law you didn't know existed.
A ferret hides illness, escapes through a two-inch gap, can die from a virus a guest tracks in on their shoes, and was almost certainly fed the wrong food. Here's how to run the intake so it doesn't become an emergency.
Parvo 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.
A parrot is not a returned dog. It can outlive you, it hides illness until it's almost too late, and the last three owners gave up for reasons nobody wrote down. Here's how to take one in without infecting your flock or missing what's actually wrong.
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