our mission

The Cat Pawsitive program is a positive-reinforcement clicker training initiative that enriches day-to-day life for cats in shelters, builds new skills for cats as well as shelter staff and volunteers, promotes the human-cat bond, and helps improve adoptability. Tabitha Kucera …

Included among the hundreds of animals that Dolly’s Legacy Animal Rescue has placed into adoption homes are those with special needs. Their adoptive owners adjusted their lives and tackled challenges without any hesitation or regret. Following are four of these …

I’m in the process of becoming certified by the International Association of Behavior Consultants (IAABC) and taking a course called Animal Behavior Consulting: Principles & Practice. The setup of the course consists of teaching videos by animal experts, instructional handouts, a weekly online mentoring session with the teacher and all students, weekly quizzes, and a major assignment. Each week I’ll share highlights here from my studies. For my Principles and Practices course, I had to develop a Functional Assessment Intervention Design. According to Susan Friedman, a psychology professor who pioneered the application of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) to companion animals, …

A licensed veterinary technician in Bellevue, Jenni Riha is the founder and leader of The Foster Kitten Project, whose mission is to take in neonatal kittens that most shelters are unable to accept due to cost and time. Jenni graduated …