Life Enrichment For Shelter Animals

1. Many animals develop medical or behavioral problems when they are at the shelter.

True

False

2. What is the number one thing that causes many cats residing in shelters to get sick in the first place?

Mandatory stray holding periods

Stress

Only feeding dry food

Multiple cat housing

3. The traditional approach to sheltering stresses already weakened immune systems.

True

False

4. Traditional caging is superb at containing germs and preventing the spread of disease.

True

False

5. The traditional approach to "Sterility" ...

Separates “human” and “animal” species

Reduces adoptions

Increases the number of animals needing to be housed

Increases disease

All of the above

6. Using cat condos for housing cats can save money in veterinary care.

True

False

7. The bandwidth issue is not about how many animals a shelter can house, but rather how many animals can be moved through the system to adoption as quickly as possible.

True

False

8. A shelter can save more animals by providing better housing experiences for each animal.

True

False

9. Bottlenecks or bandwidth issues that slow the move of animals to adoption result in...

Shelter overpopulation

Care staff not having enough work to do

A cleaner, happier shelter experience for animals

Shelters adopting more animals

10. The pet overpopulation problem may actually be a "shelter" overpopulation problem.

True

False