Section A: Safety Precautions & Solutions
How will staff serve to minimize the potential for harm to animals, employees, and even clients? Do government agencies or professional organizations come into play?
Section B: Be On the Lookout: Behavioral Awareness
Discuss behaviors commonly displayed by animals in your facility. What behavioral changes may indicate an animal is sick or especially stressed? How will staff track and respond to animal behavior in your facility?
Must discuss between 2 and 5 behaviors relevant to the animals in your facility.
Section C: Habitat Maintenance
What are staff required to do to maintain animal habitats? Are there special considerations when cleaning? Consider habitat variables: size, material, potential weak points, etc. What enrichment will you provide to the animals? How will your habitat promote proper animal welfare?
Section D: Animal Training Protocols
Is training necessary – why or why not? How might protocols vary in your facility, if at all? Are all staff permitted to train? What training tools will you use? Are animals in your facility learning from both classical and operant conditioning?
Must discuss protocols for between 2 and 5 animals.
Section E: Animal Handling
Who can handle which animals? Are there any limitations on this? Will you draw from any other sections when discussing animal handling? What are requirements staff might need to handle animals? How can handling be accomplished safely and without causing undue stress or harm to the animal?
Must compare and contrast methods between 2 and 5 animals.
Support
Keep in mind the overall theme: Design, implement, share, and evaluate care plans for species. (This is what the manual should reflect in its entirety!)
Students must be clear as to what kind of facility they are writing about. In other words, the facility has to be in line with others already in existence – not a fanciful, idealistic one.
Project can be modeled after employee handbooks students have encountered that outline best practices as well as rules and regulations.
Students are to refer to the rubric to ensure all elements are included in their projects and contact their instructor with any questions pertaining to point values.
Recall employee manuals you have encountered in the workforce. The writing style should be informative and succinct – not flowery or conversational – but not sterile.
Beware of “unintentional” plagiarism. Be sure to put things in your own words. When paraphrasing make sure to cite appropriately. OWL resources on APA citation are available via the Writing Center, library, and/or at your instructor’s discretion.
Helpful Links:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK207767/
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2019.00024/full
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