Have you ever wondered how dogs communicate? Are we even close to understanding them?

If helping homeless pets is what you’re all about, then you won’t want to miss the Maddie’s Institute Summer Webcast Series!

Foster homes are the best way to get pets out of a stressful shelter environment and expand a community’s capacity to care for its homeless pets. How can foster homes protect their foster pets and their own dogs and cats, too, from canine parvovirus and feline panleukopenia?

Because respiratory disease in dogs is often mild and resolves without treatment, and because it can be caused by viruses, there can be a reluctance to treat it with antibiotics. That’s a mistake, says this expert.

The use of antibody titer testing to determine immune status for pets has grown enormously in recent years, but shelter veterinary staff, private practice veterinarians, and pet owners still have questions.

Can you imagine having a waiting list for your adoption organization’s feral cats? At Dane County Friends of Ferals, they’d never even dreamed something like that could happen. But thanks to Maddie’s Pet Adoption Days, it did!

You've probably heard about Zeutering, a form of neutering for male dogs done with a zinc injection. If you've been wondering if it's something your organization or veterinary practice needs to check out, the Alliance for Contraception in Cats & Dogs (ACC&D)  and the folks at Ark Sciences want to help. ACC&D is offering a… Learn More

If you’re serious about saving the lives of shelter dogs, it’s definitely time to take a play break!

Do you know the questions to ask to determine if a rescue organization is operating in the best interests of the animals in its care?

At our recent Maddie’s Pet Adoption Days, the nation’s largest free pet adoption event, over 16,000 dogs and cats found homes in over 500 communities across the country. However, many animal advocates worry that free adoptions result in unhappy endings for the pets. The ASPCA has added yet more data to the growing body of evidence supporting fee-waived adoptions with a case study conducated at the Edmonton Humane Society.