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In the colder parts of the country, warmer temperatures are starting to melt the snow and offer a hint of the spring season to come. But for those in animal welfare, you know that spring isn’t the only season starting soon - springtime also means it’s kitten season.

Are you a risk taker? The decisions we make in animal welfare are often fraught with risk. If for no other reason than our work involves the lives of people and pets. It's natural for even the most seasoned risk-taker to experience doubts.

Lauren Cook, Midwest Regional Strategist

We all need to have a plan in place for how our pets and community cats will be cared for in the event we become unable to do so.

Jessica Gutmann, Mountain West Regional Senior Strategist

The Community Cats Challenge was a unique opportunity for shelters to increase their cat lifesaving through implementation or expansion of SNR/RTF, or by ending trap and kill practices and implementing TNVR. This challenge ran from July 1-31, 2025, and was offered to selected shelters based on their…

Best Friends Animal Society has released its 2020 pet lifesaving findings, which gives a national overview of the number of dogs and cats that enter shelters each year in the United States, and the number of dogs and cats that are leaving those shelters alive. The year-over-year data shows that the …