May 5, 2008 – Maddie® Awards $412,000 to the Charlottesville-Albermarle SPCA
Maddie's Fund® has given the Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA a $412,000 Maddie's Lifesaving Award for saving all healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats in the City of Charlottesville and County of Albemarle, Virginia.
Read the Press Release...»
April 18, 2008- Grand Opening in Mobile, Alabama
The Mobile SPCA, lead agency for Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in Mobile County, held a grand opening on April 13th for its new adoption center. Maddie the mascot helped Executive Director Janine Woods cut the ceremonial ribbon to officially open the facility, which will house 30 adult dogs and 30 cats. The center is expected to significantly increase adoptions for the MSPCA and Maddie's Mobile project.
April 10, 2008 - Digital Cameras to the Rescue
A $10,000 Maddie's Fund grant to Petfinder.com to purchase digital cameras for member shelters and rescues is paying dividends in saving lives. One camera feature that has been particularly popular and effective is the video option. The number of videos posted on Petfinder.com has increased 50% in the past four months. A thank you note from Heartland Lab Rescue says it all.
"Thank you so much for the digital camera we were recently awarded by Petfinder.com through a Maddie's Fun grant. We are so excited to have this so that we can take fantastic pictures and video of our pets. Having great pictures makes such a big difference in getting these very deserving animals adopted."
The Petfinder.com Foundation hopes to continue this program, so if your organization is in need of a digital camera, and a member of Petfinder.com, let them know at foundation@petfinder.com.
March 21, 2008 - New Shelter Opens
On Saturday, March 22nd, Maricopa County Animal Care and Control (and Maddie's Pet Rescue Project partner), will leave their 40-year old West Valley Shelter and move into a beautiful new 54,000 square foot facility. With “Real Life” rooms for potential owners to interact with the animals, a larger, modern clinic, and separate housing for cats and dogs, the facility will better serve the public and the homeless animals. Moving day is the 22nd; the new shelter will be open for business on Sunday, March 23rd. Read the PDF invitation »
March 13, 2008 - Maddie's® Shelter Medicine Position Endowed
The wife of an alumnus has generously gifted Cornell University's Maddie's® Shelter Medicine Program with a $2 million endowment for a Clinical Program Director. "The endowment means that we have a faculty position that is guaranteed, and the program will continue" said Maddie's® Shelter Medicine Director, Jan Scarlett, DVM. The position is currently held by Dr. Brenda Griffin.
March 6, 2008 - No Deaths in February for Tuscaloosa's Healthy Shelter Pets
Maddie's® Pet Rescue Project in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, achieved the goal of saving all of the county's healthy shelter dogs and cats for the entire month of February. Says Maddie's® Project Coordinator, Shamire Crummie, "We really came together, calling each other daily to make sure we were taking all of the healthy pets out of Metro Animal Shelter. I'd go in and find empty cages and that was a great feeling. All of the groups are so excited about what we've accomplished, we're trying to do it again in March." Maddie's community projects are asked to put an adoption guarantee in place for healthy animals for one month in Year Three and for three consecutive months in Year Four in order to ensure a full adoption guarantee for healthy dogs and cats by Year Five.
February 25, 2008 – New Maddie’s® Grant for Nevada Spay/Neuter Project
Maddie's Fund® has approved a new $200,000 grant to spay and neuter dogs and cats belonging to low-income residents in Northern Nevada. Maddie’s Spay/Neuter Project in Nevada provides low cost surgeries to Medicaid or Nevada Check-Up recipients living in six counties.
Read the Press release...»
February 7, 2008 - 'Cupid' Models in Times Square Kick Off I Love NYC Pets Month
Two Cupids accompanied by the Maddie schnauzer mascot and dogs from Animal Care & Control of NYC made a visit to Times Square to raise awareness for the Mayor's Alliance for NYC"s Second Annual I Love NYC Pets month. Additional adoption events, extended adoption hours and low-cost spay/neutering will be featured throughout the month.
February 1, 2008 – Mayor Promotes Speed Dating for Pets
Last year, Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in Tuscaloosa, Alabama came up with a novel Valentine's Day adoption event—Speed Dating for Pets! Potential adopters rotated through a series of face to face encounters with shelter dogs and cats to meet their love match. The event is scheduled again this year, and Tuscaloosa's Mayor is helping to promote it by proclaiming February 9, Speed Dating For Pets and Animal Lovers Day!
Writes Maddie's Public Relations Coordinator, Shamire Crummie: "Having recently suffered the death of his own beloved dog, Mayor Maddox was happy to promote an event for shelter pets awaiting adoption."
January 21, 2008 -
And the Winners Are...
We are thrilled to announce the
winners of the
Maddie's Fund / Petfinder.com marketing competition for adopting hard to place pets. To read the complete entries of our top eight prizewinners, go to the new
Marketing Award section of our website.
January 16, 2008 - Record Surgeries for Feral/Stray Cats
A recent Operation Catnip clinic in Alachua County, Florida broke its own record by neutering 314 cats in a single day. "We're going to submit a claim to the Guinness Book of World Records," writes Clinic Director, Julie Levy, DVM. The previous record for the most surgeries in one day was 287.
Affiliated with the Maddie's projects in Alachua County, Florida, Operation Catnip is a nonprofit organization that operates a high-volume, no-charge clinic at which feral and stray cats are spayed/neutered and vaccinated.
January 3, 2008 –
Maddie's Marketing Announcement Delayed
The scheduled January 2nd announcement of the
Maddie's Fund and Petfinder.com marketing competition winners has been delayed. It's taking more time to deal with the submissions than anticipated due to the high volume of entries. On a positive note: the quality of the submissions has prompted an interest in significantly increasing the total award over the originally announced sum of $100,000.
Once the top winners have been selected, they will be announced in a press release and posted on the Maddie's Fund and
Petfinder.com website. Many entries will be featured in the January issue of the Maddie's Fund Newsletter.
All entrants selected to receive cash prizes will be informed of the amount by mail. Checks will follow weeks later.
