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Reducing Shelter Intake

Want to see your shelter's intake drop and save rate skyrocket? Stop admitting community cats into your program. Learn from the experts how to use TNR and other community-based initiatives to find lifesaving alternatives for community cats.

  • Shelter Crowd Control: Keeping Community Cats Out of Shelters

    January 2012
    Julie Levy, DVM, Director of Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida and founder of Operation Catnip, presents an overview and analysis of the community cat population and examines the principles and practicalities of humane cat management.  Read More
  • Providing for Community Cats

    May 2010
    It has been estimated that there may be as many as 40 million feral and free-roaming cats in the United States. Find out how shelters can help protect those cats and reduce the strain on a shelter's housing and resources at the same time.  Read More