From inviting us to check our language or redefine what home means, these two back-to-back cat-centered webinars are here to help us better serve cats in our communities. Pounce on the latest Million Cat Challenge webinar if you missed it and register for next week’s offering from HASS, What Home Means for Cats: Working Together to Keep More Cats Alive and Thriving, featuring Maddie’s Director of Feline Lifesaving Monica Frenden-Tarant and UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program Director Dr. Kate Hurley.
Last week in Language That Harms Cats, Monica Frenden-Tarant, HSUS Senior Analyst, Cat Protection & Policy, Danielle Bays and MCC co-founder Dr. Julie Levy gave great tips on how to match our storytelling to our mission when it comes to cats (Hint: those abundant cat overpopulation pyramid infographics aren’t doing us any favors, so think twice before you share them—according to mathematicians and scientists, an unaltered cat might have around 95 kittens over 7 years, not 370,092!). Watch the recording and head to Maddie’s Pet Forum for more Q&A.
The cat conversation continues next Tuesday, August 31 at 3 p.m. PT with What Home Means for Cats. In this live webinar, Monica Frenden-Tarant will join Dr. Kate Hurley to talk about how we can work together to get #allthecats back home, whether home is outdoors or in and whether that cat is friendly or not. Get clarity on all the acronyms we use to talk about community cat programs—RTF, RTH, TNR, SNR—and hear why the only term we really need is Return to Home. Plus, learn how to enlist your community to help keep more cats alive and thriving and why indiscriminate impoundment of cats is not only harmful to the cats, but to marginalized communities.
