Are your local community cat programs based on data, or habit? Do you know what proportions of your outdoor cats need to be spayed or neutered to stabilize or reduce the population humanely?

A New York-based program dedicated to keeping pets and families together, known as Pet Food Stamps (PFS), has gone nationwide.

San Jose, CA, went from saving only 28 percent of the cats who came into their shelter in 2009 to saving 83 percent in 2012. How did they do it?