Evaluation of the mobile spay and neuter clinic will be evaluated both quantitative and quantitative. Veterinary, Executive Director, and Shelter Director will input data into the PetCare database. Management staff and committee will work together to create the client satisfaction survey and community awareness survey. Data results will be given out in the newsletter, annual report, and social media. Long-term outcomes include seeing a reduction in animal over population. Another measurement will be animals coming into the Humane Society of Southwest Missouri already being spay and neutered.
The following ways will be evaluation tools used throughout the grant cycle to measure benchmarks and outcomes. The Humane Society of Southwest Missouri
will evaluate their mobile clinic protocols by creating and implementing a checkoff list to be completed each time pre-surgery or post-operative steps. Evaluation will look at the number of how many community members qualify for services and which communities have the highest rates of individuals qualifying. Evaluations will show 10% of the community members qualify for the low-cost services. The marketing campaign will be evaluated by the number of materials distributed. The campaign will be evaluated by clients doing a survey to state if they had seen the marketing materials and which type of marketing had they seen. The Humane Society of Southwest Missouri will evaluate their service region 4 times during the grant cycle (before the campaign, 6 months after campaign launch, 1 year of the campaign, and at the end of the two year grant cycle) to see the effectiveness of the marketing materials in the community. The evaluation results will show at least 25% of the service region has seen at least one piece of the marketing material. A client satisfaction survey will be conducted with clients they receive services surveys will discussed overall experience in both open ended questions and Likert scale. Surveys will show an 80% overall satisfaction rate of the program. The veterinaries and staff on the mobile clinic will track the number of spay and neuters administer by date, location, animal in the PetCare database. The database will show 2,000 animals receiving low-cost spay and neuter surgeries from the mobile clinic. In the final evaluation, staff will include success stories of implementing the mobile clinic, provided by community members. Finally, the number of animals that are taken in by the Humane Society that have not been spay or neuter previously will be tracked throughout the contract periods, expecting to see an increase from 25% to 50% of animals spay and neutered before coming to shelter.
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The Hebrew University Animal Care and Use Committee approved the protocol (MD-07-10924-2), and each study was supervised by a veterinary surgeon. Each trial was conducted following a week of acclimation under veterinary care.
Thousands of animals are put to sleep each year due to not having any available homes for them to be adopted. According to Jennifer Sexton and Tom Warhol in Domestic Animal Overpopulation, “The average female cat can produce two litters of six kittens per year, a female dog can produce one litter of six or more puppies per year, making pet overpopulation a significant problem.” Animal overpopulation is costing money and you can help the pets with spay and neutering programs. A new solution is mandatory contracts for breeders and spay and neuter programs. This paper will talk about spay and neuter programs, contracts for breeders, and why some people don’t think animal overpopulation is a problem. Thankfully there are solutions to this issue of animal overpopulation.
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When owners take their pets to the clinic, they are understandably anxious about the results and outcome of the visit. While it’s the veterinarian's job to provide care for the animal, it’s also their job to put the owners at ease, reassuring them that their pet will indeed be fine. This communication is vital for building trust, as it lets the owner know what is happening to their animal and gives them confidence in believing that everything will be okay. What’s more, veterinarians that take the time to thoroughly explain procedures and instructions regarding petcare, are teaching pet owners how to better tend to their
Many people have lost their pets and close family members because there is no way to get the help or medical attention that the animal so desperately needed. Every day in the United States, veterinarians are working hard to save animal’s lives. People will always continue to want and to breed pets. Therefore, to help and cure all these pets, a steady stream of veterinarians will be needed for many years to come. Over the years, the requirements and processes to becoming a veterinarian have changed. To become a successful veterinarian one must complete all necessary education and on the job training, be friendly and love animals, and have a burning passion to help both the pet and the pet owner.
With over nine million types of horses in the United States, the need for quality health care for the horses has never been stronger. It’s certain that more equine veterinarians than ever before will be needed in the years to come to provide the care that owners want for their horses. According to the American Association of equine practitioners (AAEP), nearly half of the equine veterinarians are involved with performance horses(44.8%). The AVMA’S most recent employment survey of 2016 indicated that there were about 3,874 veterinarians in exclusively equine practice, with and additional 4,177 involved in mixed practices.
Ideally, pet supply would be equal to the demand for wanted pets. There may never be enough caring homes for all the pets as is evident by the fact that only about 25 percent of the pets in shelters are ever adopted. F...
Did you know that five million to seven million companion animals enter shelters nationwide each year? Spaying and neutering pets needs to be supported by more communities of people. The American Kennel Club (AKC) is opposed to mandatory sterilization, they state that it, “creates a hardship for responsible breeders.” Spaying and neutering is typically seen by a majority of the population as inhumane and an unnecessary violation of animal rights. The American Veterinary Medical Associations recommend that state and local governments develop effective dog and cat population control programs. Who is to decide what is “effective” enough for the populations, and how would it be done if spaying and neutering is not supported? The spaying and neutering
Countless lives locked away in cages and forgotten about have overwhelmed our society, it has left blood stains on our history as a species and if history has taught us anything, it’s that we have a choice to change our ways of adjusting to situations. A war which was fought in pursuit of ending such criminal means, yet we as human beings do little to nothing to end the horrific crimes of animal deaths in shelters. It is no secret that this world has become infused with problems that have extended from one side of the globe to the other. Amongst these problems lies a terrible truth: nearly every year, sums of almost eight million cats and dogs have been placed in shelters around the world. Out of these vast numbers, half will be euthanized; that equals to one animal being put down every 8 seconds. Animals that are not adopted are kept in shelters until they find a home. Most of these shelters do not have enough space or resources to care for the animal. Only 15% of dogs and 2% of cats that enter animal shelters are reunited with their owners. The majority of pets are obtained from acquaintances and family members. Twenty-six percent of dogs are purchased from breeders, 20 to 30 percent of cats and dogs are adopted from shelters and rescues, and 2 to 10 percent are purchased from pet shops. In addition, only 56% of dogs and 71% of cats that enter animal shelters are euthanized. The 10% of the animals received by shelters have been spayed or neutered, while 78 percent of dogs and 88 percent of cats are not spayed or neutered, in 2009 Statistics from animal shelters in 55 counties in WV (West Virginia) shows that nearly 54% of all animals entering shelters are euthanized, The euthanasia rates ranged from the lowest at 5% to the highe...
...d it would do and if it is reaching the goals that were set. There are two types of evaluations process and impact. Process evaluations are “those evaluations that look to see if an agency is meeting the mandate set forth by Congress”. Impact evaluations “consist of studies conducted on the effect that congressional policies have actually had on a specific problem”.
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