Life Enrichment For Shelter Animals
Presented by Mike Fry, Executive Director of Animal Ark, Minnesota's largest adoption guarantee animal welfare organization. Mike discusses enrichment for shelter animals that reduces stress (and disease), increases adoptions and radically improves the well-being and quality of life for canine and feline residents.
- 1.
Many animals develop medical or behavioral problems when they are at the shelter.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. True -
- 2.
What is the number one thing that causes many cats residing in shelters to get sick in the first place?
- A.
Mandatory stray holding periods
- B.
Stress
- C.
Only feeding dry food
- D.
Multiple cat housing
Correct Answer
B. Stress -
- 3.
The traditional approach to sheltering stresses already weakened immune systems.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. True -
- 4.
Traditional caging is superb at containing germs and preventing the spread of disease.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
B. False -
- 5.
The traditional approach to “Sterility” ...
- A.
Separates “human” and “animal” species
- B.
Reduces adoptions
- C.
Increases the number of animals needing to be housed
- D.
Increases disease
- E.
All of the above
Correct Answer
E. All of the above -
- 6.
Using cat condos for housing cats can save money in veterinary care.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. True -
- 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.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. True -
- 8.
A shelter can save more animals by providing better housing experiences for each animal.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. True -
- 9.
Bottlenecks or bandwidth issues that slow the move of animals to adoption result in...
- A.
Shelter overpopulation
- B.
Care staff not having enough work to do
- C.
A cleaner, happier shelter experience for animals
- D.
Shelters adopting more animals
Correct Answer
A. Shelter overpopulation -
- 10.
The pet overpopulation problem may actually be a “shelter” overpopulation problem.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. True -
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