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How to Run a 10-Day Bite Quarantine Without Losing the Dog or the Adopter

A dog in your care bit someone and now there's a 10-day hold. Handled well, it's ten boring days and a clean release. Handled badly, it's a panicked adopter, a euthanasia order, or a rabies scare that didn't need to happen. Here's how to run it right.

Aug 6, 2026 10 min read
Medical

How to Become the TNR Group Your Spay/Neuter Clinic Actually Wants to Book

Traps are cheap and cats are everywhere. The thing that actually limits how many cats you fix is surgery slots — and the clinic decides who gets them. Here's how to become the easy, reliable client who gets the appointments.

Aug 3, 2026 17 min read
Medical

How to Keep a Foster Litter's Shots and Deworming on Schedule

Six squirming, near-identical puppies, each on their own two-week clock for shots and dewormer — miss a dose and you can leave a whole litter open to parvo. Here's the schedule that actually protects them, and the system that keeps you from losing track.

Aug 1, 2026 10 min read
Colony & TNR

How to Build and Run a Trap Bank for Your TNR Group

The single biggest thing stopping people from starting TNR isn't fear of cats — it's not owning a trap. A trap bank fixes that for your whole community, if you can keep the traps from disappearing.

Jul 23, 2026 7 min read
Colony & TNR

A Good Samaritan Scoops Up One of Your Colony Cats — Here's How to Get Her Back

The cat you trapped and fixed two years ago gets picked up and dropped at the shelter as an unowned feral on a short clock. Whether she comes home depends entirely on what you did before it happened. Here's how to make a colony cat traceable.

Jul 13, 2026 11 min read
Colony & TNR

How to Run a Rescue Dog Transport Run Without a Single Loose Dog

A transport run is the most dangerous hour your dogs will have all month — a parking lot full of strangers, open crate doors, and slip leads. Most things that go wrong are paperwork or process, not bad luck. Here's how to run one that ends with every dog where it's supposed to be.

Jun 15, 2026 8 min read
Colony & TNR · Best Practices

Why You Should Track Every Feeding

Daily feeding is the closest thing you have to daily surveillance of your colony. If you're not recording it, you're throwing away the most useful data you'll ever collect.

Mar 1, 2026 3 min read
Colony & TNR

How to Run a Cat Colony Census (and Why You Should Do One Every Month)

You feed the cats every day. You know most of them by sight. But could you tell someone exactly how many are in your colony right now? A regular census is the difference between guessing and actually knowing what's going on.

Feb 19, 2026 11 min read
General · Best Practices

How to Keep Track of Foster Cats and Not Lose Your Mind

You said yes to fostering. Now you've got cats on different medications, a kitten litter that needs weighing, and information scattered across five places. Here's how to stay on top of it.

Feb 17, 2026 5 min read

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