Resources to Assist With Intake

From examination and identification to sanitization and stress relief, staff have many details to stay on top of in a bustling animal shelter or spay/neuter clinic. These educational learning tools will provide visual reminders, practical tips, and printable checklists to develop critical standards and confidence.

Behavioral Assessments

These two flowcharts are designed as training aids for new staff and to serve as references for existing staff. At a glance, spay/neuter staff will learn to assess the behavior of canine and feline patients arriving via transport and choose the best methods for removing animals from their carriers to prepare for examination. To help improve intake efficiency, the flowcharts include approximate timing for each step.

• Intake Behavior Assessment Flowchart for Dogs
• Intake Behavior Assessment Flowchart for Cats

Visual Learning Signage

These visual learning tools will enhance, streamline, and standardize your clinic operations. Download these free resources for quick reference for your veterinary staff and volunteers:

• Identifying Sterilized Animals
• Stress Relief for Cats
• Stress Relief for Trapped Cats

Using Teeth to Determine Kitten Age

Since accurately aging kittens is crucial to proper vaccination care, foster decisions and more, the ASPCA's Shelter Medicine Services team created this new chart that zeroes in on teeth as age guidelines. The chart, which also contains developmental milestones, can be printed and posted in your intake area for handy, fast reference

• Dental Aging Chart

Tips for Efficient Intake

We’ve packaged fast, easy tips to help boost efficiency, organization and communication for any agency that conducts spay/neuter operations.

• Tips for Efficient Intake at Spay/Neuter Clinics

Sample Intake Form

A non-editable sample of ASPCA Spay/Neuter Alliance's carbon copy intake form.

• Sample Intake Form

High-Risk Waiver Form

This form is important for assessing patients who are high-risk.

• High-Risk Waiver Form