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Kristen Hassen-Auerbach MA, BA Director of Animal Services, Pima Animal Care Center, Pima County, USA Kristen Hassen-Auerbach is the Director of Animal Services at Pima Animal Care Center (PACC) in Tucson, Arizona. PACC saves more than 90% of the 17,000 pets who enter the municipal shelter each year and leads a numbers of innovative programs, including building largest foster program in the U.S., with 5,100 pets going to foster homes in 2018. Kristen formerly served as the Deputy Director at Austin Animal Center, the largest, No Kill municipal animal shelter in America. While in Austin, Kristen implemented comprehensive enrichment programs for cats and dogs and worked in partnership with Austin Pets Alive! to bring the community save rate to 98%. Kristen writes and speaks regularly on topics ranging from foster care for every pet to lifesaving marketing for at-risk animals to smart adoption policies to social media for animal shelters. She teaches students from all over the U.S. who visit PACC to learn about building model programs in a high intake government animal shelter. Abstract Keep them home; Get them home: Reducing shelter intake and getting pets out faster The reality is, most pets do not need to be in shelters and the ones that come in should leave quickly. For most cats and dogs, about a week is as long as they should be in an organization’s care before moving on to a foster or permanent home. In this session, you’ll learn how to reduce intake through pet support services and when animals do enter your care, how to move more quickly to get them back home or into a new temporary or permanent home. In the most successful U.S. shelter, keeping pets out whenever possible and moving quickly to get them through the system are the most important mechanisms for reducing needless euthanasia. In this session, participants will learn how to accomplish both of these things to create a safer, more humane, more efficient organization.
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Kristen Hassen-Auerbach MA, BADirector of Animal Services, Pima Animal Care Center, Pima County, USA
Kristen Hassen-Auerbach is the Director of Animal Services at PimaAnimal Care Center (PACC) in Tucson, Arizona. PACC saves more than90% of the 17,000 pets who enter the municipal shelter each year andleads a numbers of innovative programs, including building largest fosterprogram in the U.S., with 5,100 pets going to foster homes in 2018.
Kristen formerly served as the Deputy Director at Austin Animal Center,the largest, No Kill municipal animal shelter in America. While in Austin,Kristen implemented comprehensive enrichment programs for cats anddogs and worked in partnership with Austin Pets Alive! to bring thecommunity save rate to 98%.
Kristen writes and speaks regularly on topics ranging from foster care forevery pet to lifesaving marketing for at-risk animals to smart adoptionpolicies to social media for animal shelters. She teaches students from allover the U.S. who visit PACC to learn about building model programs in ahigh intake government animal shelter.
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Keep them home; Get them home: Reducing shelter intake and getting pets out faster
The reality is, most pets do not need to be in shelters and the ones that come in should leave quickly. For mostcats and dogs, about a week is as long as they should be in an organization’s care before moving on to a fosteror permanent home.
In this session, you’ll learn how to reduce intake through pet support services and when animals do enter yourcare, how to move more quickly to get them back home or into a new temporary or permanent home. In themost successful U.S. shelter, keeping pets out whenever possible and moving quickly to get them through thesystem are the most important mechanisms for reducing needless euthanasia. In this session, participants willlearn how to accomplish both of these things to create a safer, more humane, more efficient organization.
