ASR- Lesson 1- Introduction

Animal shelters and rescues play a vital role in our communities as they continuously work to reunite pets with their owners, shelter those in need, and find new homes for animals that are lost,  without a permanent home.  For animal shelter workers, it’s often a thankless job as they balance having enough space to house all the animals, coordinating pet adoptions, and developing their homegrown campaigns to encourage people to be responsible and spay and neuter their animals.  And animal shelter staffs do all of this while trying to convince people to look first at animal shelters for that special family pet.

Animal rescues and shelters are a bit different. Animal rescues are similar to animal shelters in that they protect unhoused animals. However, they’re volunteer-run and supported because they don’t get government funding. Instead of public buildings with kennels, rescues run out of private homes.