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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.
MedicalTraps 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.
MedicalSix 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.
Colony & TNRThe 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.
Colony & TNRThe 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.
Colony & TNRA 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.
Colony & TNR · Best PracticesDaily 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.
Colony & TNRYou 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.
General · Best PracticesYou 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.
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