Why do we adopt pets? Most of us have lots of reasons, but a big one shared by everyone is this: They bring us joy. The kind of joy a Greyhound named Mosley felt when his loving human got him his very first pair of genuine Batman pajamas just in time for that first snowfall… Learn More
They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and that’s never more true than when it comes to the infectious diseases associated with stress in sheltered animals, like feline upper respiratory infections. But what happens if a cat does come down with URI? How can you can treat the individual cat and… Learn More
Do you have shy or anxious dogs in your shelter who you just know would benefit from being in a foster home and out of the shelter environment? That’s exactly how the Anxious Dog Program (ADP) started at Longmont Humane Society in Longmont, Colo. The Anxious Dog Program expands the shelter’s foster program to include specially… Learn More
Summertime, and the shelter is crowded. That means it’s the season to prevent disease by helping keep pets from entering the shelter at all! Right now, there’s a confirmed outbreak of the highly contagious H3N2 strain of canine influenza virus (CIV) in Florida, Georgia and six other states, which is combining with kitten season to… Learn More
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… Learn More
You’ve adopted a new kitten. How will your adult cat accept the new family member? Maybe things will go well between the little fluffbutt and your adult cat. Maybe not. But the odds would dramatically improve if your older cat could tell the youngster how it is. Share some feline wisdom. Explain how the world… Learn More
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
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
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
This little dog is happy he got adopted. And he’s thrilled to have so many new toys to play with. But he does have one issue with his new mom. See, every day she picks up his toys. Every day she puts them in a basket. Every day, she’s overjoyed that he finds them. And… Learn More