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[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.

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.

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!

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.

In Return-to-Field programs, healthy neighborhood cats are sterilized, vaccinated, and returned to the location of origin as an alternative to euthanasia. RTF has been a powerful force for feline lifesaving in communities all across the country. Shelters have seen dramatic decreases in feline intake and equally dramatic increases in live release rates.

What does implementing those programs look like from a “boots on the ground” animal control officer perspective? How do RTF programs really work, when you get down to the nitty gritty?

In this webinar, Tim Reeder, Animal Services Officer for the City of Huntsville, Alabama, covers: How to implement a program How to adapt the program to meet the community’s needs The decision-making process for individual cats Determining suitable locations for RTF And more!

Few things seem less intuitive than the idea that shelters can house fewer cats at any one time while saving more cats over the course of a year — and yet, it’s true, as Million Cat Challenge shelters are demonstrating every day. This intriguing initiative, known as Capacity for Care, or C4C, gets a real-life overview in this webinar from Karen Green, executive director of the Portland, Ore., Cat Adoption Team (CAT).

How do we in animal welfare balance the needs of cats and birds? Can that challenge only be met for birds at the expense of cats, or of cats at the expense of birds?

In this presentation, Dr. Kate Hurley explored the real-life implications of various policies proposed to resolve this conflict. She looked at the experience of those on the front lines of cat management, investigated the science and research, and examined the role of "catch and kill," eradication, TNR, return to field, confinement, and other approaches to community cat management and the welfare of birds and other wild animals.

In this Million Cat webinar, Dr. Denae Wagner of the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program and Challenge co-founder Dr. Kate Hurley will show you why portalizing your feline housing will be your cats’ biggest win in 2018 -- then get out their power tools and portalize right in front of your eyes!