Everyone’s been talking about the two-part webcast series challenging what we thought we knew about cats and shelters. If you missed the live events, or want to experience them again or share them with your friends and colleagues — now you can!

Both webcasts are available for on-demand viewing on the Maddie’s Institute website.

Part 1: Dr. Kate Hurley examines the assumptions underlying traditional
sheltering practices and compares them to the most recent evidence-based
information regarding the health and behavior impacts of stress on
sheltered cats and the statistical likelihood of a live outcome for an
unsocialized cat taken into a shelter.

Part 2: The nation’s leading experts on animal sheltering and
community cats in a comprehensive Q&A panel discussion on the
information in Dr. Hurley’s webcast. Panelists included:

• Kate Hurley, DVM, MPVM, Director of the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program.
• Julie Levy, DVM, PhD, DACVIM, Director of Maddie’s^® Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida.
• Rich Avanzino, President of Maddie’s Fund^® and former Director of the San Francisco SPCA.
• Jon Cicirelli, Deputy Director of San Jose Animal Care &
  Services and Board Member of the California Animal Control Directors
  Association.
• Holly Sizemore, Director, National Programs, Community Programs and Services at Best Friends Animal Society.

Sign up to view part one here, and part two here. And keep making change for cats!