Sanctioned Homeless Encampments: Pet Management Checklist

The mobile form includes fields to document items such as location, GPS, actions taken, date and encampment name/ ID. Once the mobile app is filled out a secure PDF is generated. The PDF is easy to share, and a copy is stored in your account for your professional biohazard cleanup records. You can also use the App Builder to personalize and customize this mobile form. The app should be used in the initial planning and ongoing management of sanctioned homeless encampment sites. Public Health does not recommend that pets should be housed on a sanctioned encampment site unless the site has the appropriate capacity to accommodate. Major risks associated with pets: bites to humans or other pets, population explosions if allowed to breed, the spread of diseases such as rabies to both humans and other animals and attraction of rodents and other pests with animal wastes and foods. This management checklist covers major risk topic areas associated with pet management. Only dogs and cats should be allowed as pets on site - no pet rodents, ferrets, reptiles, amphibians, birds, domesticated wild animals etc. as these animals have unique housing needs that cannot be met in an encampment environment and often pose a higher disease risk.