Social media is an important tool in finding homes for pets, but that’s no reason to forget that most people head for Google and other search engines when they want to get information about anything, including adopting a pet.

Foster programs are critical if we want to help more pets who are facing treatable medical conditions, and to expand the capacity of a community to care for its homeless pets. Does your shelter or rescue group have medical protocols in place to care for your fostered dogs and cats?

Today’s Veterinary Practice and Banfield Pet Hospital have partnered to publish the data garnered by Banfield Applied Research and Knowledge (BARK), based on veterinary records from its 850 hospitals and 2.4 million pets treated each year.

Help is here for cats who aren’t using the litterbox from the American Association of Feline Practitioners and the International Society of Feline Medicine.

The more you know about saving lives, the more lives you can save! That’s why Maddie’s Institute is dedicated to advancing your organization’s ongoing education with learning tracks.

Does your shelter or rescue group have medical protocols in place to care for your pets and for your fostered dogs and cats?

Are you ready to target new adopters instead of the same crowd? Try these three tips!

Dr. Susan Krebsbach, a veterinarian with with over 20 years’ experience working with animal shelters, talks at the Purdue/Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Symposium 2011 about senior pets in animal shelters and how to get them adopted.

Cats in TNR programs have a lower incidence of feline herpesvirus (FHV), one of the pathogens responsible for feline upper respiratory infections (URI), than cats in shelters. While cats in animal shelters, foster homes and TNR programs all carry pathogens that can cause URI, the stress of being in a shelter, along with other factors… Learn More