More than 160 communities across the country are achieving no-kill in their shelters and animal control agencies. Although those communities represent a wide spectrum including urban, rural, affluent, struggling, large and small, they do have one thing in common: a set of proven methods for saving all their healthy and treatable pets. What are those… Learn More
Want to increase spay/neuter, microchipping, training, and vaccination rates in your community’s pets? Success depends not on combatting “irresponsible pet ownership,” but providing services to low-income families.
You can talk, write, email, lecture and explain until you’re blue in the face, but communicating the most effective ways for shelter staff to interact with colleagues and the public calls for a little drama.
The Five Freedoms, animal welfare concepts that came out of agricultural reform, have been important in improving the lives of sheltered animals. But at Maddie’s Institute, we believe in six freedoms, including the freedom to live.
Do the people who work and volunteer at your shelter care about your organization? Do they feel connected to their jobs?
Are employees and volunteers at your animal shelter not as happy and productive as they could be? A recent nationwide survey of sheltering organizations found that a written job description could be the key to turning that around.
If your organization isn’t keeping data, or you’re not sure your current practices are giving you the information you need to save more animals, the National Federation of Humane Societies has created a data matrix form, instructions and definitions that can help.
Rescue groups and shelters working to help homeless dogs who are large, mixed breed, senior, and of the pit bull type who suffer from neglect, abuse, or are otherwise in need may benefit from a new fund established by Dwight Lowell and his wife, Kimberly.
When it comes to fundraising and spreading awareness through social media, are animal welfare organizations making the most of their own popularity?
Trap-neuter-release programs for community cats help protect human health. That’s not just because altered cats are less likely to fight and roam, thus creating fewer opportunities for disease spread. It’s also because TNR programs routinely vaccinate their feline patients against rabies, a disease nearly always fatal to humans.