No one in animal welfare or veterinary medicine can have missed the news about the outbreak of a new strain of the virus that hit Chicago and nearby communities in the last month. This is the first time this strain has been identified in the United States. What does this outbreak mean for the dogs… Learn More
Because people in animal welfare often see terrible things befall pets, and because of genuine concern for the animals, we’ve sometimes gone overboard in terms of regulating, requiring, constraining, screening and even getting in the way of successful adoptions.
How can your shelter save more cats? Take in fewer of them at a time, give each cat more room and care for them better.
What can animal shelters do about healthy unowned cats in their community? One new concept increasingly gaining ground is that, as long as the cats are thriving, the most compassionate, lifesaving approach is to sterilize them, vaccinate them, ear-tip them and return them where they were found. This approach grew out of community-based trap-neuter-return (TNR)… Learn More
On Tuesday, April 14, 2015, at 9 PM Eastern Time, two shelter leaders who have had great success in managed admission approaches, Barbara Carr, Executive Director of the SPCA Serving Erie County, NY, and Kathie Johnson, Senior Operations Manager of the Animal Humane Society in Minneapolis, MN, will join Maddie’s Institute to share what they’ve learned, including what’s worked and what hasn’t.
On Tuesday, April 7, 2015, at 9 PM Eastern Time, Wiley Stem III, Assistant City Manager of Waco, TX, will join Maddie’s Institute to share his community’s inspiring story of collaboration and lifesaving in Alternatives to Intake: When the Shelter Isn’t the Answer.
Sign up now for this five-part series of webinars on how shelters of all kinds across the country are implementing the five key initiatives of the Million Cat Challenge to save cats’ lives — and how your shelter can, too!
What can you do to help dogs with itching, painful ears? Plenty!
On March 19, 2015, at 9 PM Eastern, join Bonney Brown of Humane Network and Maddie’s Institute® for an exciting presentation, Assessing Your Community to Save More Animals’ Lives.
Have skin problems got you itching to find a solution for the pets in your shelter or foster program?