Category Archives: Community Education Programs

Kids and their parents alike loved meeting Rhea Sampson and her two rescue dogs Shannon and Travis at the Palo Alto Children’s Library the afternoon of July 11. They had a great time sharing information about their own pets and caring for them and learning about service dogs before listening to a reading of Rhea’s…

Over the course of two days (May 14 and 16), 40 first-grade students from St. Andrew’s Episcopal School of Saratoga visited us at Silicon Valley Animal Control Authority (SVACA) to learn about cats and kittens. The students and their chaperones learned about the role of the shelter in the greater community and received instruction in…

At the request of Youth Community Service (YCS), our clinical animal behaviorist Jennifer Ott Cameron visited three Palo Alto middle schools—Ellen Fletcher, Greene, and Jane Lathrop Stanford—for lunchtime discussion sessions about human and dog interaction. Students learned how, just like we humans, dogs are individuals with individual reactions to different kinds of situations and stimuli….

The combined Animal Welfare and Environmental Clubs at Saint Francis High School in Mountain View welcomed John Hale and several of his rescued reptiles to two sessions focusing on the exotic pet trade and emphasizing the needs and care of reptiles saved from that trade.