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December 17, 2007 – New Adoption Record in Alachua County, Florida
Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in Alachua County, Florida found homes for 202 shelter pets at their two day "Home for the Holidays" adoption event held December 1st and 2nd. More than 4500 pet lovers flocked to Gainesville's popular Oaks Mall to find their four legged companion.
“This was by far our most successful adoptathon,” said Becky Goodman, Director of the Alachua County Humane Society. “With this event, we saw how invested the community is in eliminating the needless euthanasia of animals in our county. It was a wonderful weekend, full of fantastic animals, and fabulous adopters. We couldn’t be happier.” More than 200 volunteers helped project partners Alachua County Animal Services, Alachua County Humane, Puppy Hill Farms, Haile’s Angels, and Helping Hands Pet Rescue.
December 3, 2007 - Lifesaving Success in Mobile, Alabama!
Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in Mobile County, Alabama achieved its goal for zero healthy shelter deaths throughout November! Congratulations to everyone in the coalition for their hard work and success. Partners include Mobile SPCA, Animal Rescue Foundation, City of Mobile Animal Shelter, City of Saraland Animal Shelter, Friends of the Mobile Animal Shelter, Mobile County Animal Shelter, and Saraland Animal Friends Foundation.
November 27, 2007 - Maddie's Fund® in the News
Maddie's Fund® President, Rich Avanzino is featured in this week's Pet Connection, a nationally syndicated pet-care page appearing in 70 newspapers, magazines and Web sites.
The Pet Connection website offers a full transcript of Christie Keith’s interview with Rich who describes his thirty-year history in the no-kill movement.
November 2, 2007- Marketing Competition Flooded at Deadline
Last August, we announced our search for successful marketing campaigns for hard-to- place shelter dogs and cats. Open to Petfinder.com member groups, winning entrants would each receive between $1,000 and $50,000, with a total "kitty" of $100,000. Submissions trickled in until days before the October 31st deadline, and then the floodgates opened. Nearly 200 entries poured in, thanks to promotion by Petfinder.com. Winners will be announced in early January. A large selection of entries will be featured in the January edition of the Maddie's Fund newsletter and on the Maddie's Fund and Petfinder.com websites.
October 17, 2007- Maddie's® at Fix It Forum
Maddie's Fund will be well represented at the PetSmart Charities Fix-it Forum, a national conference focused solely on spay/neuter programs to be held October 25-27 in Chicago. Dr. Jan Scarlett, Director of Maddie's® Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell University will co-present "The Latest in Pediatric Spay/Neuter." Brenda Griffin, DVM, Director of Clinical Programs, Maddie's® Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell University, will moderate "Protocols for High-Volume, High Quality Spay/Neuter Programs." And Julie Levy, DVM, Principal Investigator, Maddie's® Outdoor Cat Program will present "Step Two: Handling Feral Cats in the Clinic." Maddie's Fund is a Fix-it Forum sponsor.
October 17, 2007- Adopt-A-Cat at Madison Square Garden is the
Cat's Meow
The dream of playing the Garden came true for 500 homeless cats at the recent Adopt-A-Cat at the Garden adoption event, presented by the Cat Fanciers Association and co-sponsored by the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals.
More than 25 local animal shelters and rescue groups presented available cats. As many as 200 felines were either adopted on the spot or had applications accepted. The event is part of the October Celebration of Cats at Madison Square Garden, which also includes the CFA-Iams Cat Championship Cat Show.
October 9, 2007- Maddie's Fund and HSUS Help Gulf Coast Shelter Pets
Today, the leaders of Maddie's Fund and the Humane Society of the United States announced a partnership with Gulf Coast animal welfare organizations that will bring nearly $1 million in funding for homeless shelter pets in Louisiana and Mississippi.
October 2, 2007- Find a Friend and a Smoking Hot Car
Maddie's® Pet Rescue Project in Tuscaloosa, Alabama will offer new and used dogs and cats for adoption at Randy Rogers Auto Sales on October 13th from 11am to 3 pm. The event will showcase cats fully loaded with love and puppies with low miles and great exteriors. "We're trying to create events that incorporate pet adoptions into activities that people are already doing on a Saturday afternoon, like car shopping," said Ginger Kizziah, Assistant Project Coordinator.
September 20, 2007- Maddie's® at American Humane Conference
Maddie's Fund® President Rich Avanzino and Solutions to Overpopulation of Pets President Peter Marsh will lead a provocative workshop titled Does Spay/Neuter Really Work? at the upcoming American Humane Conference in Alexandria, Virginia, September 27-29th. Attendees will explore spay/neuter facts, myths and assumptions with these two noted experts.
September 13, 2007 – Maddie's® at Southern Regional Spay/Neuter Conference
Maddie's Fund® staff and project partners will be well represented at the 2007 Southern Regional Spay/Neuter Leadership Conference in Memphis, Tennessee, September 13-16. Maddie's Fund President Rich Avanzino will kick things off with the latest news about Maddie’s® Starter and Spay/Neuter Grants. Brenda Griffin, DVM, from Maddie's® Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell University will lead three sessions:
- Working with Veterinarians to End the Companion Animal Surplus
- Feral Cats
- Pediatric Spay Neuter
Also from Cornell's Maddie's® Shelter Medicine Program, Dr. Stephanie Janeczko will conduct a workshop on Techniques for Improving Shelter and S/N Clinic Herd Health.
September 11, 2007 - Maddie's in the Rockies
Maddie's Fund® Field Representative, Lynne Fridley, will conduct a workshop titled Dealing with Diversity at the Animal Leadership Summit in Grand Junction, Colorado, September 18-19. Lynne will also join other foundations for a grant giving roundtable.
August 20, 2007 - Maddie's Announces Marketing Awards
Maddie's Fund® is happy to announce our Marketing Awards for hard to place shelter pets. If your facility is a Petfinder.com member and successful in adopting the blind, disfigured, or elderly, tell us how you do it and receive up to $50,000.
Maddie's Fund® is looking for letters of any length describing how the pets are marketed and the outcomes achieved, including percent and total numbers of hard-to-place animals adopted. Samples of collateral materials are required. Winning shelters will receive between $1,000 and $50,000 each.
Submissions will be accepted from 501(c)3 organizations, or government programs, in the United States that are Petfinder.com members. Adoption campaigns must be focused on dogs and/or cats.
Submissions must be received by October 31, 2007. Award winners will be announced on January 2, 2008; winning campaigns will be featured on the Maddie's Fund® and Petfinder.com websites and in the Maddie's Fund® newsletter. Send entries to: Marketing Campaign, Maddie's Fund, 2223 Santa Clara, Suite B, Alameda, CA 94501. For more information, call 510-337-8979.
August 13, 2007 - Maddie's Leader Honored
Jane Hoffman, president and chairman of the Board of the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals and director of Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in New York City, was honored by the American Bar Association Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section with the Excellence in the Advancement of Animal Law Award. The award recognizes exceptional work by a member or leader of an international, national, regional, state or local animal law committee, who through his/her commitment and leadership, has made an impact on the advancement of the humane treatment of animals. The award was presented during the 2007 ABA annual meeting in San Francisco on August 11th.
August 3, 2007- July Adoptions Double at the Haven
The Haven for Animals is a small adoption guarantee shelter in Fairhope, Alabama and a member of Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in Baldwin County. Executive Director Mike Graham sent us some great news the other day. "We had a FANTASTIC adoption month in July. Our staff and volunteers found good loving homes for 61 cats and dogs. In July 2006, we found homes for 29 cats and dogs. Holding extra pet adoptions and sharing our adoption goals with our volunteers really paid off."
July 27, 2007 - Maddie in the News
In her recent Your Whole Pet column in SF Gate.com, Christie Keith gave a nice nod to the lifesaving work of Maddie's Fund. Check it out!
July 20, 2007 - A Real Pet Palooza
Sixty-eight dogs and cats found loving new homes at the recent Maddie's Pet Palooza Super Adoption Pet Fair in Mobile, Alabama.
Hundreds of people flocked to the five hour event to search for a new pet, view agility and dog training demonstrations or microchip their pet. The event was hosted by the Mobile SPCA, the Animal Rescue Foundation and the Friends of the Mobile Animal Shelter.
July 11, 2007 - Revised Grant Guidelines
We have revised our veterinary school grant guidelines to make it easier to apply for shelter medicine funding. Maddie's Fund staff is more than happy to clarify our guidelines and eligibility requirements and to answer questions about proposal development. For more information about Maddie's® Shelter Medicine grants, please e-mail us at info@maddies.org.
June 29, 2007 - Maddie's in Animal Sheltering
The May-June issue of the HSUS magazine, Animal Sheltering, features an opinion piece by Maddie's Fund President Rich Avanzino on the subject of animal transfer programs. Rich's perspective, one of four presented, is titled "Our Obligation to the Old and the 'Uglies'". Rich states that communities should find homes for all of their own healthy and treatable shelter animals before bringing in additional pets from other places.
June 20, 2007 - Desperate Housecats
Spring and summer bring an influx of cats to all animal shelters, and Maricopa County Animal Care & Control (MCACC) in Phoenix is no exception. In response, MCACC (a Maddie's Pet Rescue Project partner), is trying a new approach -- a Desperate Housecats campaign to find loving homes for the newly arriving felines. The adoption campaign runs from June 9th to August 31st and includes reduced adoption fees and great prizes.
June 13, 2007 - New Cornell Resident
This July, Dr. Brian DiGangi will join Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell University as the program's second resident. Dr. DiGangi graduated from the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine in 2006, and is currently completing a year-long internship in small animal medicine, surgery and critical care. Dr. DiGangi completed clinical externships in shelter medicine as an undergraduate and was a co-founder of the University of Florida Student Chapter of the Association of Shelter Veterinarians.
June 4, 2007 - New Yorkers Say Goodbye to Bob
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Event-goers and volunteers, including one enthusiastic canine, and the Maddie's Fund mascot, signed a card for animal activist and long-time TV game show host Bob Barker, who is retiring.
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Brooklyn's Prospect Park was the venue for a well-attended Maddie's Pet Rescue Project adoption festival and microchipping clinic, where quite a few dogs and cats, including a 13-year-old male cat named Mako, found new forever homes. A special feature at the event was a card-signing, where adopters, event-goers, volunteers, and Maddie, the Maddie's Fund mascot, signed a thank-you card for retiring TV game show host Bob Barker of The Price is Right, thanking Bob for all he has done over the years for animals. For decades, Bob closed each show with a reminder to viewers to spay and neuter their pets.
May 29, 2007 - Shelter Breaks Ground
A partner in Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in Maricopa County, Maricopa County Animal Care and Control recently broke ground on a brand new 54,000 square foot animal shelter, scheduled to open Spring 2008. The current facility, built in 1968, is little more than a noisy concrete warehouse, with endless rows of fenced kennels housing 400 dogs and cats. The new building will include an adoption area, a clinic, isolation, quarantine and get acquainted areas, dog and cat evaluation rooms, a volunteer room, multi-purpose room, real-life rooms and a dog park -- all of which are currently lacking. Says Director Rodrigo Silva, "The new shelter will help keep our population healthy, speed adoptions and give our lifesaving efforts a tremendous boost."
May 15, 2007 - Spay/Neuter Car
Most of the four cylinder Mini Modified cars racing at Alabama's Birmingham International Raceway display decals for Joe's Tires or Pete's Auto Parts. Fritz Fridley's Volkswagen Rabbit has a more important message: Spay and Neuter Your Pet. Says Fritz's spouse and Maddie's Fund Field Representative, Lynne Fridley, "We get a lot of great comments about our car from the race fans and track announcers. I've even been invited into the press box before the next race to explain the importance of spay/neuter."
May 7, 2007 - Maddie's at HSUS Animal Care Expo
Maddie's Fund President Rich Avanzino will moderate two workshops at the HSUS Animal Care Expo, May 9th through 12th in Dallas. Who Is a Treatable Shelter Pet? And Other Asilomar Controversies will be presented by Becky Goodman, Executive Director, Alachua County Humane Society, Gainesville, Florida; Jan McHugh-Smith, President, San Francisco SPCA, San Francisco, California; and Cheryl Naumann, President and CEO, Arizona Humane Society, Phoenix, Arizona. Using Statistics to Effect Change will include Merritt Clifton, Editor, Animal People Magazine; Andrew Rowan, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Operations, The HSUS; and Stephen Zawistowski, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, National Programs, and Science Advisor, ASPCA.
May 2, 2007 - Party Time in New York
Animal Care & Control of New York City, The ASPCA, Bide-A-Wee, North Shore Animal League and dozens of other Mayor's Alliance partners partied down recently to celebrate the enormous lifesaving success of the first two years of Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in New York City. Animal Haven hosted the event in its new SoHo Adoption Center. There was much to celebrate: in only two years, adoptions have nearly doubled while deaths in New York City animal shelters have decreased by 35%. Certificates and gift cards were awarded to organizations and people who went above and beyond to make these lifesaving achievements possible.
April 20, 2007 - Maddie's Featured on Osgood File
A no-kill nation will soon be a reality. That's the message Maddie's Fund President Rich Avanzino imparted on "The Osgood File," the daily radio program hosted by Charles Osgood and broadcast on over 400 radio stations nationwide. To hear the program, click here: http://www.westwoodone.com/pg/jsp/osgood/transcript.jsp?pid=15044
April 11, 2007 - Maddie's Grand Opening in Loxley
Most of the groups in Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in Baldwin County, Alabama are located in the southern part of the county along Mobile Bay. To reach far-flung adopters in other parts of the County, the Maddie's Project just opened a new adoption center in centrally located Loxley. Writes Director Casey Moore, "Today is the official opening, and I'm happy to report the media is responding well - I've had a press release published in several local papers, stories in the Press-Register and the Courier, and we'll be on NBC 15 news tonight. Folks in the area definitely know we're here. Best of all, we've adopted out three cats in our first five hours."
April 2, 2007 - Maddie's at Animal Care Conference
Maddie's Fund President Rich Avanzino will present a workshop titled Shelter Statistical Reporting at the upcoming Animal Care Conference, April 22nd to 24th in Sacramento, California. The Conference is co-sponsored by the California Animal Control Directors' Association, the California Veterinary Medical Association, and the State Humane Association of California.
March 23, 2007 - March Mutt Madness in Mobile
 
Forget NCAA basketball. In Mobile, Alabama, March is all about March Mutt Madness. Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in Mobile held its second coalition pet adoption and microchip clinic of 2007 on March 3rd. Seventy animals found forever homes at the event!
March 16, 2007 - Zero Deaths for NYC's Healthy Shelter Pets
Thanks to the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, Animal Care & Control of New York City, and the ninety plus partners of Maddie's® Pet Rescue Project in New York City, no healthy dog or cat died in a New York City animal shelter during the month of February.
March 8, 2007 - Maddie's at Virginia Conference
Field Representative Lynne Fridley will represent Maddie's Fund at the Virginia Federation of Humane Societies 2007 Annual Conference, March 29th to 31st in Staunton, Virginia. Lynne will present a comprehensive overview of Maddie's Fund grants and offer tips on how to apply.
February 28, 2007 - Speed Dating for Pets
Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in Tuscaloosa, Alabama came up with a novel Valentine's Day adoption event: Speed Dating for Pets. Potential adopters looking for their love match rotated through a series of face to face encounters with the best looking canines and felines in town. At the end of the four hour event, thirteen pets were on their way to loving new homes.
February 20, 2007 - Be My Valentine
Thirty-nine dogs and cats found loving new homes at the Valentine's Super Adoption, hosted by Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in Mobile County, Alabama.
February 10, 2007 - A New Home for the New Year
Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in Baldwin County, Alabama, kicked off 2007 with a first time adoption event, "A New Home for the New Year." The event drew large crowds despite the cold and blustery day, and over twenty animals found great homes. Twenty microchips and thirty rabies shots were administered as well.
February 5, 2007 - Coalition Keeps Adoption Guarantee Rolling
On any given day, twenty to thirty stray and owner surrendered companion animals come into Alachua County Animal Services in Gainesville, Florida. So when 77 dogs and cats unexpectedly came in on January 9, 2007, shelter staff had to work fast to avoid euthanizing any of the healthy animals. One of the first things Director Ray Sim did was call Becky Goodman, Executive Director of the Alachua County Humane Society (Lead Agency of Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in Alachua County) to marshal the efforts of all of the Maddie's Pet Rescue Project partners. The various groups were immediately informed of the problem, and several media outlets were also alerted to the shelter's plight. Thanks to the fast-acting coalition partners working in conjunction with Alachua County Animal Services, 106 animals were adopted or transferred from the shelter within the next four days. A crisis was averted and the adoption guarantee for healthy dogs and cats remains intact.
January 29, 2007 - Cornell Dean Acknowledges Maddie's Program
From left to right: Dr. Brenda Griffin, Maddie's Shelter Medicine Clinician, Dean Smith, Dr. Jan Scarlett, Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program Director, and Dr. Stephanie Janeczko, Maddie's Shelter Medicine Resident.
Donald Smith, Dean of Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, gave special recognition to Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program at the recent Cornell Alumni reception at the North American Veterinary Conference.
January 18, 2007 - Mobile Adds New Partner
A new rescue group is partnering with Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in Mobile County, Alabama. In the effort to save all of the County's healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats, the all volunteer Saraland Animal Friends Foundation has joined the Saraland Animal Shelter, City of Mobile Animal Shelter, Friends of the Mobile Animal Shelter, Mobile County Animal Shelter, Mobile SPCA, and the Animal Rescue Foundation. "The new group will focus on adopting pets from the Saraland Animal Shelter. The Shelter has only two staff, and they are frequently out in the field -- clearly, the assistance is welcomed," says Maddie's Project Coordinator Lori Anbuhl. The Saraland Animal Friends Foundation's adoption goal for 2007 is 62.
January 9, 2007 - Maricopa's New Customer Service Program
Maricopa County Animal Care & Control has launched a new customer service program to boost adoptions at its two Phoenix shelters. "It all started when AC&C told us that many adopters were walking out because they weren't getting helped," says Maddie's Pet Rescue Project's Stefanie Strackbein. With an extensive background in retail customer service, Stefanie put together a two-hour training class, and so far, twelve volunteers and three Maddie's staff have taken the course. "The training has already had a big impact," reports Stefanie. "Trainees have adopted out approximately 300 animals in the programs' first two weeks!"
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