Theory of Change

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INPUTS                                                              

- Financial: Public donations, grants, corporate sponsorships, wills and legacies.     -Human: Veterinary staff, kennel assistants, volunteer network, behaviuorists, support network.                                

- Physical: Rescue centre facility, transport vehicles, medical equipment, holding kennels.                                    

- Supplies: Dog food, preventive medicine (flea/tick/worming), enrichment equipment 

ACTIVITIES

Rescue and Care

- Dog rescue and intake

-Behavioural assessment

-Veterinary care 

-Socialisation and rehabilitation

-Daily enrichment and care

Adoption and Fostering  

 -Adoption/fosterer applicant assessment and screening

-Meet and greet procedures

-Follow up support   

Fundraising and Outreach     

- Social media management.

-Raising awareness of work and plight of rescue dogs.

-Promoting rescue dogs  .                                  

OUTPUTS                         

-Dogs rescued and cared for.

-Successful adoptions.

-Increased awareness of growing need to choose adoption.

-Successful foster network.

-Decreased pressure on a struggling rescue system.

-Funds used to provide necessary vet care (including spay/neuter), decreasing number of future dogs in need of rescue placements. 

-Completed events and talks in local area. 

SHORT-TERM OUTCOME

-Healthy, happy dogs ready for homing.

-Approved adoptive families equipped with knowledge to care for their dogs, provided with a support network to improve success rate. 

-Attitudes within local community to change towards rescue/adoption, with larger widespread influence over social media.

MEDIUM-TERM OUTCOME

- Reduced average length of stay per dog in the rescue centre.              

- Low return/surrender rates due to high-quality behavioural matching and support.                     

-Reduced stress on struggling families in the local community who need to surrender their dogs.

-Reduced pressure on the stray system. 

LONG-TERM OUTCOME

- Reduced numbers of euthanasia of healthy dogs in the stray system.   

-Eradication of families in the local area with nowhere to turn when in need of a safe place for their dogs.            

- Eradication of canine cruelty, neglect, and abandonment.

 - A culturally ingrained community standard of responsible pet ownership and humane animal care.    

-A local community which chooses to "Adopt not shop".