Cats and Birds Can Coexist: Here’s How Shelters Can Help
This Thanksgiving, we are grateful that we don’t have to choose between the welfare of cats and the welfare of birds! In this much-loved Million Cat Challenge webinar, Dr. Kate Hurley explores the science and research that make community cat programs a win for all.
Two On-Demand Webinars to Watch Right Now
Watch this double feature and let us know how things are changing, or how you wish they could change, for the cats in your neck of the woods.
It Takes a Community to Help Cats: Two Webinars Bust Myths and Offer Tips
Back-to-back webinars help us better serve cats in our communities: Catch up on Language That Harms Cats and get ready to explore What Home Means for Cats with Monica Frenden-Tarant and Dr. Kate Hurley, coming up on August 31.
No Place Like Home: Why RTH Is Key
RTF, TNR, SNR—how about Return to Home? We’re getting clearer on what works and what doesn’t for people and animals, and it’s time to clarify our terminology too. Here are three webinars packed with RTH innovations that benefit both dogs and cats.
Addressing Concerns About Community Cats: How to Turn Controversy into Collaboration
On June 25 join Maddie’s Fund® and the Million Cat Challenge for an all-star packed new webinar, The Top Ten: Questions and Controversy with Community Cat Programs. Want to be sure your question is addressed? Email #allthecats@millioncatchallenge.org and we’ll queue it up for showtime.
New NACA Statement Benefits Cats and Communities
Have you heard? The National Animal Care & Control Association (NACA), a group representing officers responsible for public health and safety, issued a strong statement supporting humane community cat management and trap-neuter-return and advocating for continued community education.
When Cats Belong in Their Community
A concerned or frustrated community member arrives at the shelter with a lost cat they found hanging around the neighborhood: traditionally shelters have accepted that cat into their care and, when possible, put it on the path to adoption. That may well be the response the community expects. But what if that’s not actually in the best interest of the cat, lost or not? On the latest episode of Humane Network’s Shelter Success Simplified podcast, KSMP director Dr. Kate Hurley explains why returning a cat to home often means returning a cat to its community.
