HeyJaredAnimal Services Professionals
The Animal Services Substack is a free publication written by and for professionals in the animal services sector. Edited and Published by John Peaveler and Dr. Jenna Kiddie.
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Take Both Pills (opens the original)
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If you’ve read my first two pieces in this series (and if you haven’t yet, please do), you’ll know I’ve been asking some uncomfortable questions. The first asked whether the game we’re playing is actually winnable. The second was about the system we built in the name of animal welfare and whether we’d build the same thing again. I then ended with a question I said I’d come back to: whether there’s something more fundamental at work than what we knew or didn’t know when this sector was built. Som
Safety and Risk in Animal Services (opens the original)
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The Animal Services industry globally has a safety problem. I am most frequently asked to train and consult for organizations because they have had either a serious dog bite injury, are dealing with the reputational damage of unsafe or poor-welfare practices, or are experiencing consistent injuries to front line staff, with the associated loss of work and rising costs. Injuries are prevalent in our industry. Bites and scratches from cats are the leading cause of injury among staff, though dogs h
Operation Ukraine: Providing Veterinary Care in a War Zone (opens the original)
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Can We “Science the Shit” Out of This? (opens the original)
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I’ve said this before, but I got into this work because, like most of you, I wanted to help and save animals. If you’ve read my previous piece (Under 50 Feet of Crap), you’ll know I asked an uncomfortable question about whether what we’ve built as a sector is actually capable of doing that, saving animals, at the scale we need. In this piece I’m going a layer deeper. Not just asking what’s wrong with what we’ve built, but why we actually built it this way in the first place, and what we might ha
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