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Feline URI has been among the most ubiquitous and frustrating diseases in animal shelters. But there’s some good news: Research tells us there’s a secret solution to preventing URI in shelter cats, and every shelter has it! In this webinar, UW/UC Davis Shelter Medicine Fellow and shelter veterinarian Dr. Ann Enright and Dr. Cynthia Karsten of the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program you'll learn to dramatically reduce feline respiratory disease while simultaneously improving cat well-being, reducing costs, and making cat care easier and more enjoyable.

[UPDATED TO REPLACE EARLIER VERSION THAT HAD TECHNICAL ISSUES.] If you want to know what your shelter, your community, and people who have lost their cats can do to get those MIA felines back to their families, we only have one thing to say: Here, kitty, kitty! In this free webinar, Brigid Wasson of Missing Pet Partnership examines why fewer than 2 percent of lost pet cats who enter shelters will ever see home again - and how to beat those odds.

Learn how community cat programs are working in shelters all around the country. Staff can’t believe the success they’ve seen and many now face ‘cat shortages’ during certain times of the year.

The Million Cat Challenge, originally launched to save the lives of one million shelter cats in North America, announced today at the Best Friends National Conference that participating animal shelters have doubled that original goal. The more than 1,500 North American animal shelters in the Challenge have saved two million cats as of July 26, 2019.

A wonderful educational campaign to remind Good Samaritans that Mama is the best caregiver for kittens (and she's likely on her way back!).

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When the open admission MSPCA made one seemingly small, easy-to-implement change, the positive impacts on intake and adoptions were immediate. What’s more, the change helped staff and volunteers innovate new adoption promotions and develop creative solutions to finding homes for cats with the most challenging litterbox and behavior issues.

In this free Million Cat Challenge webinar, Director Mike Keiley of the Noble Family Animal Care and Adoption Center MSPCA at Nevins Farm and Bryn Conklin Rogers, program manager for the MSPCA Boston Adoption Center, share what happened when they introduced seemingly small changes at the shelters - and how you can learn from their experience!

What real-world difference can the initiatives of the Million Cat Challenge make in an animal shelter? In this free webinar from the Million Cat Challenge and Maddie’s Fund, Dr. Cristie Kamiya of Humane Society Silicon Valley gives an overview of how implementing those initiatives has grown their life-saving capacity for cats.

"One Shelter’s Journey to Save More Feline Lives" also includes case studies showcasing their pre-intake processes, Pet Pantry program, their kitten nursery/foster program, and their community cat garden.

Learn how community cat programs are working in shelters all around the country. Staff can’t believe the success they’ve seen and many now face ‘cat shortages’ during certain times of the year.

How would you like to increase the number of cats whose lives your animal shelter saves by 70 percent or more?

That’s what the Capital Area Humane Society in Hilliard, Ohio, did, by implementing a number of innovative programs that allowed each cat in need of help to receive the exact services that individual cat — and that cat’s human caretakers! — needed.

Watch this webinar with CAH Executive Director Rachel Finney, and find out how they did it and get tips on doing it at your shelter, too.

60 seconds. Big deal, right?

In just one year, Iowa’s Dubuque Regional Humane Society decreased cat euthanasia by 82 percent and increased the cat adoption rate by 40 percent. By shortening length of stay, cat care costs were cut by over $100,000. How would you like to save more cats’ lives, do more adoptions, and cut costs at your animal shelter? This webinar shows you how!

“Through our Foster to Surrender (FtS) program, we have been able to help hundreds of animals each year who previously faced euthanasia because they had an infectious disease at the time of intake and were a risk to the health of our current population. “All it took was approaching the Good Samaritans, who had already demonstrated they cared by bringing these animals to us, with the same trust and open dialogue we use when doing open adoptions. And, when we ask them to help just a little bit more by fostering with our support, so many, many of them say yes!” – Sharon Harvey, President and CEO, Cleveland Animal Protective League. In this webinar, she's joined by APL Director of Operations Ayse Dunlap.

When Dr. Kate Hurley is roped into "saving" a baby crow, she is presented with an opportunity to walk in the same shoes as the good Samaritans that want to help kittens they may find.

Each year, Downtown Dog Rescue keeps more than 2,000 cats and dogs out of the Los Angeles Animal Services South LA Shelter through a groundbreaking in-shelter intervention program. Find out what they do, how they do it,, and how your shelter can, too, from DDR founder Lori Weise and senior Shelter Intervention Prevention counselor Amanda Casarez.

Did you miss the Million Cat Challenge Mini-Webinar on Panleukopenia, originally done on 09/06/2018? It's too late to participate, but you can still watch the hour-long presentation by Dr. Kate Hurley.

The Koret Shelter Medicine Program and Million Cat Challenge hosted a contest to give away 300 portals to improve cat housing in North America. We received requests for more than double the number of portals we had so we turned to you, the animal-loving community, to help us make up the difference. Today we get to formally announce the winners of the contest!

An animal shelter isn’t a good place for kittens too young to be adopted, whether they’re orphaned or not. What if you could inspire the community to step up and care for these fragile little lives until they were 8 weeks old? You can find out how one shelter is doing just that in “The Milk Man and Wait Until 8 Programs: Saving Cats and Kittens by Thinking Outside the Box” with. Chief Veterinarian Dr. Maria Serrano and Director Alex Muñoz of Miami-Dade Animal Services.

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