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"Most foster agreements spend three pages on feeding and leash rules and one sentence on who owns the animal. That is the wrong ratio. Here is a ten-clause agreement you can copy, and the argument for why the care rules should be taken out of it entirely."
GeneralThe federal Volunteer Protection Act shields individual volunteers from personal liability for ordinary negligence, but it says in terms that it leaves the organization's own liability untouched, and it drops out the moment a volunteer gets behind the wheel.
Medical · Best PracticesCosted at replacement value, volunteer labour is about two-thirds of what a trapping night costs and the clinic donation is about a quarter. A group that is already turning down surgery slots because nobody can trap should spend its next marginal dollar paying a trapper, not buying more vouchers.
GeneralA UK rescue recognised by HMRC can reclaim 25p on every £1 an individual donates, but adoption fees, event tickets and company gifts are all outside the scheme. The money most small rescues leave behind is reimbursed foster expenses and cash in the collection tin.
GeneralA Spanish animal rescue asociación needs four separate registrations, not one, and since Ley 7/2023 it also needs civil liability insurance and a written contract with every foster home. Most groups also owe an annual corporate tax return even with no commercial income.
DogsA dog that's been passed over for months doesn't need a new kennel — it needs a day at the lake and a photo of itself asleep on someone's couch. Here's how to stand up a field trip and sleepover program that actually moves dogs out the door.
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.
DogsYou can run an adoption event where twelve dogs sit on the pavement all afternoon, or one where four go home and the rest come back calmer than they left. The difference is almost never the dogs. It's the planning.
Colony & TNRA step-by-step guide to turning "I feed some cats" into an organized group that actually gets things done. Based on our own experience running TNR in a small Spanish town.
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