Our Mission
To revolutionize the status and well-being of companion animals.
Who is Maddie?
Maddie was a beloved Miniature Schnauzer whose unconditional love, devotion, loyalty and spirit inspired her caregivers to start a charitable foundation, Maddie's Fund®, in her name.
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Study: Impulsive Pet Adoptions as Successful as Planned Ones
Do people who plan and research before adopting a shelter pet end up keeping that pet more often than people who adopt more impulsively? No, says a new study in which researchers examined the factors that led to shelter pet adoptions not working out. Read more on the Maddie's InstituteSM blog, Chew on This
America's Biggest Free Pet Adoption Event!
Ruffian Racehorse, a 20-year-old Cocker Spaniel, is a bouncy, peppy people-lover! Add kittens, kids and other dogs: he loves them all. He's one of the thousands of shelter pets available for adoption at Maddie's® Pet Adoption Days on June 1 and 2, 2013. To see more featured pets, click here
Two-Part Webcast: Making the Case for a Paradigm Shift in Community Cat Management
Are common cat sheltering policies helping cats? Are they humane? Effective? Not according to Dr. Kate Hurley. It's time, she says, for shelters to consider a radical solution to the suffering, stress, illness and death that are the fate of many cats in our nation's animal shelters: not taking in unowned cats at all. For more info
$1M Lifesaving Award for Portland Metro Area
Maddie's Fund awarded its prestigious Community Lifesaving Award to six animal welfare organizations in the Portland, Oregon metro... Read More
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