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Bottle-Feeding Kittens: A Comprehensive Guide

This guide provides instructions for caring for bottle-feeding kittens — aka "bottle babies" or very young kittens who have been abandoned or orphaned.

Bottle-feeding kitten with milk on her face

Best Friends Volunteer Handbook

Non profit volunteer handbook for Best Friends, including info about policies, that may be used as a sample or template for other organizations.

Man playing with a cat using a wand toy

Animal Shelter Fundraising Ideas

This guide covers animal shelter fundraising fundamentals: developing a fundraising plan, strategies to raise money, grant writing and more.

Use animal shelter fundraising strategies to help sweet pitbull puppies like these balls of love.

Animal Shelter Dogs: Promoting Them for Adoption

This action kit gives instructions of how to promote shelter dogs for adoption. Get tips on promoting individual dogs and holding adoption events.

There are many ways to promote animal shelter dogs like this pooch, aptly named Charmer.

How To Conduct Successful Adoption Events

Manual from Best Friends Animal Society covers how to put on a successful dog, cat or other pet adoption event.

Man and woman who adopted two cats at an animal rescue group's adoption event

Kitten Foster Manual

Comprehensive resource of how to foster a kitten or litter of kittens, with or without their mother. Info on feeding, vet care, socializing and more.

Two fluffy kittens snuggling

Animal Rescue Insurance

This animal rescue insurance guide covers types of insurance available for nonprofit animal organizations and good practices to minimize risk of loss.

Two shelter dogs playing is harmless enough but could get out of hand. To protect your animal rescue organization, you should invest in animal rescue insurance.

Enrichment for Dogs in Shelters

This action kit provides ways to provide enrichment for shelter dogs, improving their day-to-day lives in the shelter and increasing their adoptability.

This pitbull dog is enjoying agility training, an enrichment activity offered in some specialized programs at animal shelters.

Animal Welfare Coalition-Building Action Kit

Animal welfare coalitions are teams that have a mission focused on helping homeless animals. This comprehensive how-to guide provides instructions.

Medium-sized black dog and woman