ICAWC 2015 - Paul Wass & Alasdair Bunyan - Building for future welfare

Building for Future Welfare

Dogs Trust’s Newest Rehoming Centre

Dogs Trust Manchester

The Existing Building

The existing facilities

Internal Kennel Design

Layout of Canterbury

The Rehoming Building

Existing and New Layouts Ground Floor

Rehoming Kennels

Puppy Facility

Vet Suite

Welcome

Ground Floor Rehoming

The Rehoming Building

New Layout First Floor

Viewing Balcony

Call Centre

Overnight Accommodation

Intake and Booked

• 20 kennel Intake building

• 20 kennel Booked building

• Off lead exercise areas for all of the dogs

• On lead walking areas

Intake, Booked and Exercise Areas

Acoustic Screen

Sleep

Run

Access Corridor

Acoustic Screens

Setting Out for the Kennel Blocks

Intake Block and Exercise Runs

Booked Block and Exercise Runs

Rehoming Exercise

All of outside

Intake Block

Booked Block

Viewing Balcony

Exercise Areas

The Finished Article

Training and Rehabilitation

Readjusting to an Inner City Environment

Location

• Constant traffic, within an industrial estate.

• Excessive noise

• Excessive vibration

• Increased visitors

Concerns and Worries

Not a beneficial environment for dogs that are:

– noise sensitive.

– chase (vehicle) orientated.

– anxious: genetically or lack of early socialising

Concerns to Creativity

Realistic Environments for real life set ups

• Local parks

• Street work

• Prepare dogs for where they will predominantly live

Within the Rehoming Centre

Acoustical and visual control when entering and exiting kennels.

Removal of visual triggers.

Lowering of arousal levels.

Increased Enrichment

• Multiple surfaces - sand, wood, rubber, grass, stone.

• Visual awareness – open vs barriers

• Climbing frames.

• Water features

Behaviour Modification Training

Pavement walking

– Habituation towards

• Vehicles

• Prams

• Counter Conditioning in realistic environments

– Super market car park

Worries – What Worries?

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