icawc 2015 - paul wass & alasdair bunyan - building for future welfare
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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?
Thank you