A One Welfare Approach to Keep People and Pets Together: Moving Beyond the Animal Shelter (CRC One Health One Welfare)

Animal shelters are a predominant, largely unquestioned, feature of the landscape of animal welfare.Yet, their historical roots as a pound system haunts and shapes the impacts of animal shelters on human staff, animals, the environment, and the broader community.Using a One Welfare lens, Nadine Dolby highlights the mounting evidence in multiple fields that the current approach is broken, and offers practical, hopeful solutions to changing how communities help pets and people. This book opens questions about how the current system of animal sheltering operates in the United States through exploring its historical roots and contemporary challenges.The book then examines the terrain of community-centered animal sheltering, and the emergent, creative, One Welfare-based practices of more than a dozen community organizations across the US.Throughout, Nadine weaves in stories of her 12 years of volunteering at an animal shelter, and her current experience as founder and president of a local a