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<br />HSZIS Professional Animal Services Consultation Program Proposal P <br />The HSUS believes the success of our professional ASC program is based on the nature of its <br />foundation: objective, comprehensive assessments of animal care and control services by teams of <br />experts, specifically tailored to meet the requesting agency's needs. <br />Too often, animal-related issues, programs, policies and problems are addressed individually, <br />without consideration for how each affects the others. The success of any animal care and control <br />program hinges directly on many, if not all, aspects of sheltering services. Further, no agency can <br />be studied in a vacuum without regard to other areas; an understanding of the history, mission, and <br />goals is essential. <br />There are no broad, sweeping solutions to success that can be applied to all agencies and service <br />areas. Each is dramatically unique in its needs, resources, public perceptions and expectations. <br />Animal care and control programs that have proven extremely successful in one community <br />sometimes fail miserably in another. Agencies therefore must not only be creative in assessing their <br />own communities but also be willing to evolve in order to continue to best meet both the ever- <br />changing animal and human needs. <br />