Animal Welfare Professionals

Here in Northern New Mexico the five nonprofits, including the local spay neuter clinic are now working together to better serve the population and better deal with the pet overpopulation. It was clear to all of us that if we combine our human assets and work together, we could perhaps increase our monetary assets better, more quickly, more effectively than if we try to do it as individual nonprofits. It is not without its challenges. We have personality clashes as you would with any collaboration. We are making headway. Our first focus is fostering and that is being headed up by an organization, whose focused is to help pets stay in their homes when there are issues to be faced primarily behavioral issues. When there are other issues like lack of food, there are other resources that can be contacted to cover that kind of shortage. This has great potential! I hope I can report back in the not too distant future on some of the successes we have had.

Keep us posted! I had a small "cat cafe" in downtown Hickory and we invited a different rescue each saturday to show their kitties, collect the donation fees, as I also believe in collaboration!   We are opening now again a larger full time place and I would like to host rescue expos, vet expos, low cost/no cost clinices etc. so people can meet everyone that can help. Good luck! keep us posted

Here in Northern New Mexico the five nonprofits, including the local spay neuter clinic are now working together to better serve the population and better deal with the pet overpopulation. It was clear to all of us that if we combine our human assets and work together, we could perhaps increase our monetary assets better, more quickly, more effectively than if we try to do it as individual nonprofits. It is not without its challenges. We have personality clashes as you would with any collaboration. We are making headway. Our first focus is fostering and that is being headed up by an organization, whose focused is to help pets stay in their homes when there are issues to be faced primarily behavioral issues. When there are other issues like lack of food, there are other resources that can be contacted to cover that kind of shortage. This has great potential! I hope I can report back in the not too distant future on some of the successes we have had.

Here in Northern New Mexico the five nonprofits, including the local spay neuter clinic are now working together to better serve the population and better deal with the pet overpopulation. It was clear to all of us that if we combine our human assets and work together, we could perhaps increase our monetary assets better, more quickly, more effectively than if we try to do it as individual nonprofits. It is not without its challenges. We have personality clashes as you would with any collaboration. We are making headway. Our first focus is fostering and that is being headed up by an organization, whose focused is to help pets stay in their homes when there are issues to be faced primarily behavioral issues. When there are other issues like lack of food, there are other resources that can be contacted to cover that kind of shortage. This has great potential! I hope I can report back in the not too distant future on some of the successes we have had.

This is wonderful! I'm in SW Georgia and focused specifically on cats. We are trying to get a meeting together with other cat focused groups including colony caregivers, rescues, and our two local animal shelters. Would love any tips on what worked as you got started, and what you wished you had done differently. Thank you.

Here in Northern New Mexico the five nonprofits, including the local spay neuter clinic are now working together to better serve the population and better deal with the pet overpopulation. It was clear to all of us that if we combine our human assets and work together, we could perhaps increase our monetary assets better, more quickly, more effectively than if we try to do it as individual nonprofits. It is not without its challenges. We have personality clashes as you would with any collaboration. We are making headway. Our first focus is fostering and that is being headed up by an organization, whose focused is to help pets stay in their homes when there are issues to be faced primarily behavioral issues. When there are other issues like lack of food, there are other resources that can be contacted to cover that kind of shortage. This has great potential! I hope I can report back in the not too distant future on some of the successes we have had.

In our first couple of meetings, we made a list of areas of concern. Hands-on rescue, fostering, Emergency Vet, care, education, spay, neuter, etc. And each Rescue tends to have a focus so that Rescue will head up an area of concern. For many of us, the lack of Foster homes is huge, so that's where we started. Here in Northern New Mexico. We have an absolutely unmanageable overpopulation issue. All of the rescues have been on overload far too long. The local Shelter just came back on board a few months ago and it's helping but it's not enough. We have two free spay neuter clinics doing a total of almost 10,000 space and neuters a year and it's not enough. But that many surgeries, we should start to see a reduction in numbers in a couple of years. Currently, my organization is the only one that funds Emergency Vet care and that's not sustainable. I work with another rescue that transfers puppies to Colorado adult dogs as well but primarily puppies. Last year we sent out over 150 at the cost of $100 per puppy. That was a big bite out of our budget. As a coalition we're hoping that gives us more power to apply for larger grants. And that's where we are. J

This is wonderful! I'm in SW Georgia and focused specifically on cats. We are trying to get a meeting together with other cat focused groups including colony caregivers, rescues, and our two local animal shelters. Would love any tips on what worked as you got started, and what you wished you had done differently. Thank you.

Here in Northern New Mexico the five nonprofits, including the local spay neuter clinic are now working together to better serve the population and better deal with the pet overpopulation. It was clear to all of us that if we combine our human assets and work together, we could perhaps increase our monetary assets better, more quickly, more effectively than if we try to do it as individual nonprofits. It is not without its challenges. We have personality clashes as you would with any collaboration. We are making headway. Our first focus is fostering and that is being headed up by an organization, whose focused is to help pets stay in their homes when there are issues to be faced primarily behavioral issues. When there are other issues like lack of food, there are other resources that can be contacted to cover that kind of shortage. This has great potential! I hope I can report back in the not too distant future on some of the successes we have had.

Judith and Rebecca, I was the ED for a large, cat-focused org that was a founding partner in a coalition of the major animal shelters/orgs in our metro area. We operated a decentralized spay/neuter program for cats, shared data, transferred animals, and numerous other projects. I'd be happy to chat with either of you about what we learned if that would help!

In our first couple of meetings, we made a list of areas of concern. Hands-on rescue, fostering, Emergency Vet, care, education, spay, neuter, etc. And each Rescue tends to have a focus so that Rescue will head up an area of concern. For many of us, the lack of Foster homes is huge, so that's where we started. Here in Northern New Mexico. We have an absolutely unmanageable overpopulation issue. All of the rescues have been on overload far too long. The local Shelter just came back on board a few months ago and it's helping but it's not enough. We have two free spay neuter clinics doing a total of almost 10,000 space and neuters a year and it's not enough. But that many surgeries, we should start to see a reduction in numbers in a couple of years. Currently, my organization is the only one that funds Emergency Vet care and that's not sustainable. I work with another rescue that transfers puppies to Colorado adult dogs as well but primarily puppies. Last year we sent out over 150 at the cost of $100 per puppy. That was a big bite out of our budget. As a coalition we're hoping that gives us more power to apply for larger grants. And that's where we are. J

This is wonderful! I'm in SW Georgia and focused specifically on cats. We are trying to get a meeting together with other cat focused groups including colony caregivers, rescues, and our two local animal shelters. Would love any tips on what worked as you got started, and what you wished you had done differently. Thank you.

Here in Northern New Mexico the five nonprofits, including the local spay neuter clinic are now working together to better serve the population and better deal with the pet overpopulation. It was clear to all of us that if we combine our human assets and work together, we could perhaps increase our monetary assets better, more quickly, more effectively than if we try to do it as individual nonprofits. It is not without its challenges. We have personality clashes as you would with any collaboration. We are making headway. Our first focus is fostering and that is being headed up by an organization, whose focused is to help pets stay in their homes when there are issues to be faced primarily behavioral issues. When there are other issues like lack of food, there are other resources that can be contacted to cover that kind of shortage. This has great potential! I hope I can report back in the not too distant future on some of the successes we have had.

Thanks, Karen. I'll let you know. J

Judith and Rebecca, I was the ED for a large, cat-focused org that was a founding partner in a coalition of the major animal shelters/orgs in our metro area. We operated a decentralized spay/neuter program for cats, shared data, transferred animals, and numerous other projects. I'd be happy to chat with either of you about what we learned if that would help!

In our first couple of meetings, we made a list of areas of concern. Hands-on rescue, fostering, Emergency Vet, care, education, spay, neuter, etc. And each Rescue tends to have a focus so that Rescue will head up an area of concern. For many of us, the lack of Foster homes is huge, so that's where we started. Here in Northern New Mexico. We have an absolutely unmanageable overpopulation issue. All of the rescues have been on overload far too long. The local Shelter just came back on board a few months ago and it's helping but it's not enough. We have two free spay neuter clinics doing a total of almost 10,000 space and neuters a year and it's not enough. But that many surgeries, we should start to see a reduction in numbers in a couple of years. Currently, my organization is the only one that funds Emergency Vet care and that's not sustainable. I work with another rescue that transfers puppies to Colorado adult dogs as well but primarily puppies. Last year we sent out over 150 at the cost of $100 per puppy. That was a big bite out of our budget. As a coalition we're hoping that gives us more power to apply for larger grants. And that's where we are. J

This is wonderful! I'm in SW Georgia and focused specifically on cats. We are trying to get a meeting together with other cat focused groups including colony caregivers, rescues, and our two local animal shelters. Would love any tips on what worked as you got started, and what you wished you had done differently. Thank you.

Here in Northern New Mexico the five nonprofits, including the local spay neuter clinic are now working together to better serve the population and better deal with the pet overpopulation. It was clear to all of us that if we combine our human assets and work together, we could perhaps increase our monetary assets better, more quickly, more effectively than if we try to do it as individual nonprofits. It is not without its challenges. We have personality clashes as you would with any collaboration. We are making headway. Our first focus is fostering and that is being headed up by an organization, whose focused is to help pets stay in their homes when there are issues to be faced primarily behavioral issues. When there are other issues like lack of food, there are other resources that can be contacted to cover that kind of shortage. This has great potential! I hope I can report back in the not too distant future on some of the successes we have had.