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Tom Candy

Tom Candy

UK-based shelter behaviour specialist and Senior Clinical Animal Behaviourist Development Officer at Dogs Trust; founder of Simplifying Shelter Behaviour.

Aug 20, 2026

22:29
are more responsible?
22:32
Again, it depends.
22:35
It depends on the size of the organisation.
22:38
Lots of rescues in the UK are moving towards all paid staff because I think we've realised some of those difficulties.
22:44
They're 100% are still like 100% volunteer organisations too, but they do tend to be the foster-based organisations because once you have a building... things do change.
22:58
I mean, would they all like more staff? 100%.
23:02
But I think the big difference in the UK is, particularly over the last few years, a lot of the legislation and laws around volunteers have changed.

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36:48
And so when we're building the skills to help these pets in the shelter, when we're teaching the staff, you know, how does staff get that information? Tell me a little bit about your mentorship program and the advice and the support system that you have available for trainers in general, but specifically training for shelter staff.

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