"The assembled groups held a variety of viewpoints on how best to help the animals, yet we all agreed that the most effective way to save the lives of all healthy and treatable animals in the shortest amount of time was to work together."
— Rich Avanzino

How to Implement the Asilomar Accords

This section of the site is meant to serve as a practical guide to implementing the Asilomar Accords in your community. The resources below were prepared by various leaders in the animal welfare community to aid in presentations or panel discussions about the Asilomar Accords. If you have any materials you have used to present the Asilomar Accords to a group that you would be willing to share, please let us know. These documents are PDFs and require the free software Adobe Reader (click to download the newest version of Reader).

General PowerPoint presentation explaining the principles of the Accords and how to implement them, given at a Michigan state conference by Belinda Lewis, Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control, Indiana (PDF)
General PowerPoint presentation explaining the principles of the Accords and how to implement them, given at Animal Care Expo 2005 by Jane McCall, Dubuque Humane Society, Iowa (PDF)
Editorial on the importance of transparency in reporting statistics by Rich Avanzino of Maddie's Fund (PDF)
Detailed explanation of the definitions used in the Asilomar Accords – from Maddie's Fund (PDF)
Annual animal statistics template and live realease rate formulas (PDF)
Advice on creating a pet evaluation matrix to guide the categorization of animals in your shelter – from Maddie's Fund (PDF)
A sample pet evaluation matrix created by the SPCA of Texas (PDF)
A sample pet evaluation matrix created by Fort Wayne (IN) Animal Care and Control (PDF)