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. Maddie's® Lifesaving Awards are given to communities that have implemented an adoption guarantee for all healthy shelter pets or have achieved no-kill status (an adoption guarantee for all healthy and treatable shelter cats and dogs). Awards range from $200,000 to $3 million, depending upon the size of the community.
Maddie's® Infection Control Manual Available in June
One of the greatest challenges facing animal shelters in controlling infectious diseases in an environment where the population changes constantly, animals carrying disease agents may enter the facility daily, high density populations facilitate disease transmission and funding is limited. The purpose of Maddie's® Infection Control Manual for Animal Shelters, the first comprehensive resource of its kind, is to enhance knowledge about infection control measures and to aid veterinary professionals in the development and implementation of infection control protocols in animal shelters. Edited by Christine A. Petersen, DVM, PhD, Glenda Dvorak, MS, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, and Anna Rovid Spickler, DVM, PhD of Iowa State University's Center for Food Security and Public Health, at the College of Veterinary Medicine, the manual will be available in mid-June at a cost of $30.00 plus $10.00 for shipping (for up to 5 copies in the US).
To request a copy, contact:
Center for Food Security and Public Health
Iowa State University
2160 College of Veterinary Medicine
Ames IA 50011
515-294-7189
cfsph@iastate.edu
Coming Soon: Another Maddie's® Marketing Competition
Maddie's Fund® and Petfinder.com will hold a second marketing competition this Fall for Petfinder.com member shelters and rescues that have created successful strategies to place the elderly, blind, deaf, disfigured, black, shy, or plain pets, or have come up with ways to adopt out cats and dogs that require in-home follow-up medical or behavioral care.
Maddie's Fund awarded $300,000 to more than 100 organizations in last year's competition. The rules will be modified this year to make it easier to apply, so watch this newsletter for more information.
Maddie's® Outdoor Cat Program Completed
The two-year Maddie's® Outdoor Cat Program (MOCP) ended in January 2008. Lead Investigator Julie Levy, DVM and other University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine faculty studied the effect of an intensive Trap-Neuter-Return program on shelter cat admissions at Alachua County Animal Services in Gainesville. Although preliminary findings have been gathered, it will take several more months to finish tabulating the data. We'll alert newsletter readers when the findings are published and available.
Maddie's® Shelter Medicine Position Endowed
Cornell University's Maddie's® Shelter Medicine Program has been gifted with a $2 million endowment for a Clinical Program Director. The position is currently held by Dr. Brenda Griffin.
No Deaths in February for Healthy Shelter Pets in New York and Tuscaloosa
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. Reports Project Coordinator, Shamire Crummie, "All of the partners really came together, calling each other daily to make sure we were taking all of the healthy pets out of Metro Animal Shelter."
Maddie's® Pet Rescue Project in New York City saved all of its healthy shelter pets in February as well, breaking adoption records in the process. A total of 998 cats and dogs were transferred out of NYCACC (up sixteen percent from February 2007). Total adoptions in February came to 1,333, a 10% increase over February 2007.
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 fuill adoption guarantee for healthy dogs and cats by Year Five. Congratulations to Tuscaloosa and New York for making their goal!
