Happy #MaddieMonday! Start your week off right by catching up on anything you may have missed! Please note, our Managing a Feline Panleukopenia Outbreak in a Shelter webcast scheduled for June 6th has been postponed due to a family emergency. We will let you know when it has been rescheduled.

Got 3 days? Learn how fostering can save the lives of healthy adult dogs!
Can you imagine spending three jam-packed days learning everything from reducing barriers to fostering, to starting a field trip foster program, to marketing foster dogs, to saving long stay dogs by getting them to foster? If you attend Maddie’s® Medium and Large Dog Foster Apprenticeship at Austin Animal Services this summer, you won’t have to… Learn More

How pets can get adopted without ever going into a shelter
What if there was a resource that would allow pets in need of a new home find adopters without ever going into a shelter? Increasingly, there is! When faced with life-altering circumstances,  families can find keeping their pets impossible. Although no one who loves their pet wants them to enter a shelter, alternatives can be… Learn More

Host a feline communication popcorn party, and help cats!
If you’d like your shelter and rescue group staff, volunteers, fosters and adopters — as well as cat loving community-members — to speak cat, it may be time to host a party to watch our free online course, Feline Communication: How to Speak Cat!, together! When you know how to read it, a cat’s body… Learn More