MPFA Recommends Kate Hurley Webcast on Sheltering Cats

Are common cat sheltering and animal control policies helping cats? Are they humane?   Effective?  Not according to Dr. Kate Hurley, Director of the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program. 

Kate Hurley's webcast on Thursday, June 27, at 9 PM ET is a session no shelter manager, staff person, volunteer, or rescue should miss.  

In this free webcast through Maddie's Institute, Dr. Hurley will examine assumptions underlying traditional sheltering practices and compare them to the most recent evidence-based information regarding the impact of stress on sheltered cats.

Information presented in Part One will include:

• Common assumptions affecting sheltering programs for cats.
• Evidence and data analysis: Are common sheltering policies about unsocial/unowned cats evidence-based?
• Do current methods of running TNR programs really make a difference to the overall problem of community/feral cats coming into shelters and subsequently being euthanized there?
• What lifesaving alternatives really work, and how do we implement them?
• When is it appropriate to just not take cats into our shelters at all?

Read more about the issue and webcast here.

Sign up for the FREE webcast here.

Can't attend the webcast? An on-demand version will be available approximately one week after the live event.

In Part Two, scheduled for July 11th, an expert panel will conduct Q&A discussion on the information in Dr. Hurley's webcast, answering questions submitted in advance as well as live questions from the audience.  More info and registration links for the July 11 follow-up is here.