Animal Welfare Professionals

I'd love to hear any ideas or suggestions!

We started one two years ago.  Our local newspaper did a story on it, and we have a television commercial that can be seen on our website (http://flathead.mt.gov/animal).  We also put posters up in local feed stores, tack suppliers, and vet offices.  There have been some great presentations on this type of program at past AC Expos, and I believe at past SAWA/AAWA conferences.  Monica Frenden at Austin pets Alive was a great help with getting our program going.

Pima Animal Care Center in Tucson, AZ has one. It is called the Working Cat program.

https://www.facebook.com/PimaAnimalCareCenter/videos/1841397002634890/

We also have a barn cat / working cat program that we do promote in a few ways. We have:

• A Barn Cat page on our website: https://www.urbancats.org/barn-cats
• A generic Barn Cat profile on Petfinder: https://www.petfinder.com/cat/barn-cat-44378148/wi/milwaukee/urban-cat-coalition-wi497/
• Barn cat posts on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and NextDoor when we really need homes. 
• I've also reached out to a couple local farm groups (Land Conservancy groups, 4H groups, etc) asking if they would share our information with their members (and we've placed 8 cats that way!). 

We do have a separate application for people looking for working cats: http://bit.ly/AdoptUCCWorkingCats

Oh wow, that's exciting! I love the farm group idea.

We just adopted an outdoor kitty through a local 'Garden Cat' program -- that was great marketing to our family because we don't live on a farm or large property. 

Congratulations!

Our most recent really successful effort was a banner that we posted in the lawn right across from one of the entrances of the state fair. The fair draws lots of ag folks, and it got us at least a half a dozen adopters in the 10 days of the fair. It was only about $100 to print and we can use it for many years.