“Every cat counts.” That’s the motto of our funded Million Cat Challenge, and it’s one Maddie’s Fund® wholeheartedly believes in. That’s why, from April 29 to May 31, 2016, we gave 596 grants totaling $617,500 to shelters that joined the Challenge, and to Challenge shelters that referred new participants. The Million Cat Challenge was launched… Learn More
Does your shelter or rescue group counsel adopters on how to carefully and gradually introduce a new cat into the family? If so, many of your adopters may well be ignoring your advice — and things work out anyway. A couple of weeks ago, Million Cat Challenge co-founder Dr. Kate Hurley of the UC Davis… Learn More
If you love cats and want to see U.S. animal shelters save more of them, be sure they know Maddie’s Fund® has $1,000 for them if they join the Million Cat Challenge! The Million Cat Challenge was founded by Dr. Julie Levy of the Maddie’s® Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida and Dr.… Learn More
If your qualifying U.S. animal shelter is willing to save more cats, Maddie’s Fund® has $1,000 for you! Our grants to support enrolling in Shelter Animals Count last month went so well we thought we’d do it again! This time it’s for our funded Million Cat Challenge, a shelter-facing joint project of the Maddie’s® Shelter… Learn More
Our funded project the Million Cat Challenge is halfway to its audacious goal of saving 1 million shelter cats’ lives in five years! The Challenge, founded in 2014 by Dr. Julie Levy of the Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida and Dr. Kate Hurley of the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program,… 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.
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!