Dog-Inclusive Housing: Why It Matters and How It Impacts Families Nationwide - On Demand
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This webcast was part of Camp Maddie: Pet-Inclusive Housing Edition virtual seminar.
Dog-inclusive housing isn’t just about allowing pets—it’s about keeping families together and creating healthier, more compassionate communities. Across the country, many pet owners face tough choices due to housing restrictions, often having to give up their dogs. By embracing dog-inclusive policies, we can help families stay together and create neighborhoods where pets are valued as part of the family.
In this presentation Shannon Glenn, Executive Director of My Pit Bull is Family, shares insights from over 13 years of advocating for dog inclusive rentals, showing how dog-inclusive housing improves both mental and physical health, lowers stress, and keeps pets out of shelters. She breaks down the real impact this has on families and communities nationwide, and discusses how everyone benefits when housing is accessible to all—pets included.
Presenter: Shannon Glenn, Executive Director, My Pit Bull is Family
This webinar has been pre-approved for 1.0 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credits by The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement and by the National Animal Care & Control Association.
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Shannon Glenn
Executive Director
My Pit Bull is Family
Shannon started with My Pit Bull is Family in 2014 and quickly became an expert in housing policy and surrender prevention for the animal welfare community. She has an extensive professional background in grassroots campaigns, voter outreach, community building, fundraising, homeless advocacy, and policy creation. Shannon is a tireless advocate for adults experiencing homelessness and was previously the Shelter Supervisor for the only pet-friendly emergency homeless shelter in the state of Minnesota.
Shannon holds a Master’s in Advocacy and Political Leadership where she centered her degree program around drafting policies to end housing and insurance discrimination for families with large dogs and graduated from the Executive Leadership Certification program for Animal Welfare at Southern Utah University in partnership with Best Friends Animal Society in 2021.
In 2019, Shannon developed the North Minneapolis Pet Resource Center program after volunteering at Minneapolis Animal Care and Control where she realized that her neighbors in North Minneapolis lacked access to quality pet food, supplies and resources leading to increased owner surrenders and at large pets.
She lives in North Minneapolis – Minnesota with her partner, Anthony, their four dogs Charlotte, Fern, Luna Tuna and Wilbur, and cat Max. You can usually find Shannon spending her free time binging true crime shows, skating in circles learning how to play roller derby, & dreaming about traveling.
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