Our survey is still open! If you know folks who have rehomed an animal, please share!

My first in-person international conference... I hope to see some familiar faces IRL! 🐈🐕😊

My talented research assistant Meghan won 1st place in the poster presentation competition at the UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems Graduate Student Council! I am so proud! She shared some preliminary data from our ongoing survey on pet rehoming

Come hangout with me and some amazing like-minded shelter/data/tech folks to discuss my new paper on self-rehoming! Tomorrow!

Please share this survey with your network! We are hoping to learn more about this under-researched area: barriers to accessing veterinary care for people who use drugs

So proud of my RAs Meghan and Chloe for presenting at MURC this week! Such rockstars.

If anybody missed this-- it's posted on YouTube! Thank you again to HASS for hosting such a great discussion :) youtube.com/watch?v=oYVpIv…

We're in WCV's spring issue! Sharing our recent work about Adopt a Pet's Rehome platform

Congratulations Dr. Anna Ratuski !!!

The AWP Human Animal Interaction Lab is featured in the BC SPCA’s Spring 2023 Science & Policy newsletter!  Find stories on the Animal Kind initiative that AWP collaborators have supported, & research updates from current AWP PhD. Read it here: spca.bc.ca/wp-content/upl…

Chloe is such a thoughtful researcher! Her initiative throughout her thesis has been so amazing. If anybody is looking for a grad student in public health come 2024 - here she is!

AWP students Lexis Ly Elizabeth Russell and Julia Lee presented a workshop for secondary school teachers on Monday with the Vancouver School Board. The teachers learned how they can bring animal welfare back to their own classrooms. Thanks for having us Vancouver School Board! #ubcAWPdairy

See you all so soon at #ISAZ2023! I'll be presenting my research investigating online self-rehoming of dogs and cats 🐶🐱

I'm back after a nice vacation in the UK following #ISAZ2023! I enjoyed all the amazing presentations, the vegetarian haggis, and taking home 1st place in the oral presenation competition. So nice to see and meet so many of you!

Congratulations to Kai Allen Von Rentzell, who successfully defended his Masters thesis “Implications of International dog rescue operations on Canadian sheltering practices” last week! Kai and supervisor Dr. Sasha Protopopova celebrate after the defence!

Our new study is now published (open access thanks to ASPCA)! Thank you to everyone who shared and participated in the survey :)

Read the full paper here: jsmcah.org/index.php/jasv…

Nice write-up by Faunalytics of insightful study by Lexis Ly and Dr. Alexandra Protopopova of how varied & inconsistent shelter intake data can be. Dovetails with Shelter Animals Count data, highlighting need for internal & external standardization. faunalytics.org/investigating-…