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The Best Friends Podcast

Best Friends Animal Society

An animal welfare professional’s typical day includes unparalleled joy and heart-wrenching despair, often in equal measure. The burnout is real but it’s the hard-won progress that sustains us. The Best Friends Podcast brings you stories from the front lines of lifesaving. You’ll hear from leading experts on topics that impact all of us. These are stories that matter to shelters, rescue groups, and the animal welfare organizations that enable their service to a community and its animals. These are

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01:05:55

A New Day for Animal Sheltering in the United States

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2021/01/28

If we’re going to meet the 2025 goal of ending the killing of pets in animal shelters, we need to redefine the relationship the community has with animal shelters. What is the best way to keep people and pets together and keep animals out of shelters unless they truly need to be there?The community supported sheltering model invites community members to play a more prominent role in saving lives. That allows the shelter to focus on the animals who need the most help - those with urgent medical needs

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38:11

Strategy: paving the way to achieving your mission

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2021/01/21

Strategic planning is a phrase that can strike boredom in the hearts of, well, a lot of us!But over the last year, from the ongoing pandemic to the political division and civil unrest, we’ve seen how critical it is for us to react and do what is necessary to continue saving lives. A strategic plan can help you do just that.This week we look at how one organization has used strategic planning to set clear direction and align everyone in the organization behind the goals and what needs to happen to

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Mary Ippoliti-Smith

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2021/01/14

It’s hard to imagine animal welfare and sheltering without Maddie’s Fund. From the support of individual shelters and rescue organizations to national campaigns and the vast amount of resources and programs, online courses, and conferences, Maddie's fundamentally changed what we do and how we do it. Mary Ippoliti-Smith has been there since there very beginning and has been directly responsible for much of that impact.Today, as a member of the Executive Leadership Team, she is responsible for the

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01:24:05

Best of and B-Sides

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/12/31

As we say goodbye to 2020, we are taking a moment to pause and reflect. While many are saying good riddance to 2020 (justified!), we are also trying to focus on the positive things that have come out of what is possibly the most stressful and challenging year in more than a generation.When the pandemic took hold, all of us were trying to figure out the best way to navigate through it personally and professionally. At Best Friends, we believed - and we still do - that sharing our experiences and

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21:38

Mark LeBlanc and Ace from Amazon Prime's The Pack

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/12/24

Spoiler Alert!We want to make sure we don’t ruin Amazon Prime’s new reality show The Pack for you, so if you are planning to watch the series wait to listen to this episode until you’ve seen them all!Mark LeBlanc and his dog Ace were one of twelve teams competing to win the around the world race that challenged the contestants - both two and four-legged - through a series of different tasks designed to test their skills. The top prize was $500,000, but the contestants also chose a charity that would

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37:36

Fundraising During COVID-19

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/12/17

As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold of our lives, it meant overcoming obstacles to every aspect of our work - including fundraising. The cancelation of in-person events, for example, required quick thinking to ensure the projected revenue from those annual events wasn’t lost.It’s also been a good reminder of how we must take advantage of every opportunity, and this year’s GivingTuesday is a perfect example. Since its inception in 2012, GivingTuesday has become a worldwide phenomenon inspiring

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18:27

Historic Moment for L.A.'s Cats

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/12/10

In 2010 a judge put an injunction in place that prevented the city shelters in Los Angeles from not only performing any trap, neuter, return (TNR) but also barred them from talking about it with the public. The injunction was a result of a lawsuit filed by a group of people who were concerned about the impact community cats were having on wildlife.Since TNR is the only humane method of effectively reducing community cat populations, the injunction only served to worsen the problem it sought to

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38:18

Cracking the Code

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/12/03

Animal service officers historically have been trained to function as code enforcement officers, and in many communities that is still the case. While this training is integral, it is not always a holistic representation or acknowledgment of all the tools officers have to do their work.Continuing the discussion on moving from punishment to support, we look at changing the culture one officer at a time. Helping us all understand the systemic needs in our community and the full range of resources at

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01:11:53

Jackson Galaxy

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/11/26

Before he was known as the Cat Daddy, Jackson was a shelter employee, working for the Humane Society of Boulder Valley in Colorado. He worked in several roles, including the front desk supervisor, interfacing with the public who came in to surrender their pets. It was during that time that his knack for working with cats became clear and set him on the path that would make him a household name and help millions better understand their cats through his Animal Planet TV show, My Cat from Hell.Jackson

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47:42

From Punishment to Support

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/11/19

A far cry from the days of being seen as the “dogcatchers,” today’s highly skilled animal care and control officers are on the front lines in our communities, helping animals in need. In the last few years, as sheltering has seen progress towards connecting lifesaving to public safety, there’s a need to restructure the role animal services has in helping the pets and pet owners in their communities.An animal services officer is often the largest touch-point to the community for a shelter and their

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47:07

What Makes a Home?

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/11/12

You see an outdoor cat. What do you do? There’s a good chance your instinct is tosavethe cat. An outdoor cat is a cat in need. Right?What if that isn't the case? Many cats will spend their entire lives outdoors. They often have people who care for them by providing food or outdoor shelter. Others prefer to fly solo, not looking to us for help. Regardless, healthy outdoor cats are just that, healthy and living outdoors. Bringing those cats into a shelter can be a solution to something that was never

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29:29

Stacy LeBaron - The Community Cats Podcast

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/11/05

Podcasting is more popular today than ever before, giving listeners their choice of more than 1.5 million podcasts. While there are plenty of shows to feed your true crime habit, there aren’t too many podcasts that focus on saving the lives of shelter pets. One of the best and longest-running is The Community Cats Podcast, hosted by Stacy LeBaron.Much more than a podcast, the mission is “to provide education, information, and dialogue that will create a supportive environment, empowering people to

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25:22

All Dogs are Individuals

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/10/29

Thirteen years ago, dogs seized from dogfighting busts were considered by most organizations to be too dangerous, too damaged, too traumatized to be rehabilitated. So it was no surprise that the effort to save the dogs from the Michael Vick dogfighting case was controversial. Some in our line of work called it reckless, and others believe it to be a waste of resources.But it is the stories of those 47 dogs that have helped millions of people understand that all dogs are individuals. They have proven

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51:58

To Save Them All, We Must Reach Them All - Kenny...

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/10/22

A priority for Best Friends is building a nationwide, grassroots movement of advocates who are willing to work together, all driven by the belief that people and their pets deserve compassion. We need to connect with others who share the common goal of ending the killing of cats and dogs in our nation's shelters by the year 2025 - even when that means going beyond our comfort zones.As a teacher in inner-city Boston, Kenny Lamberti realized the power that animals hold. His dog, a 90-pound pit bull

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39:53

Keeping Families Together

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/10/15

Animal care and control services are redefining the community and embracing principles that promote safe, humane communities for people and pets. Keeping families together should be a primary goal of today’s field services operations. To do that, it is critical to understand the difference between cases of true cruelty, and when it is a case of neglect brought on by a lack of resources, knowledge, or both.In this episode, we hear the first-hand experiences of four seasoned field services

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Embedded in Big Country, Abilene Texas

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/10/08

In 2018, Abilene Animal Services (AAS) had a 55% save rate. That put them at 27th on the list of shelters nationwide most in need of help. The community wanted the shelter to succeed and the city’s elected officials took action.In May of this year, Abilene’s City Council passed a resolution that approved Best Friends to take on the role of Animal Services Director. The City of Abilene officially became the latest community to join the Shelter Embed Program. This unique approach to public-private

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26:49

Access to Care - Shannon Glenn

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/10/01

Pets need food, water, veterinary care, adequate shelter, and love. But what happens when an owner can provide endless amounts of love but struggles to deliver the rest?The lack of access to care is a major contributor to pet owners surrendering their animals to shelters. There is so much more we, as animal welfare professionals, can do for our communities. We don’t have to be their last resort. We must be a real resource for pet owners, and we should work with them to keep families together.This

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24:37

Emergency Planning for Pets and People

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/09/24

Right now we are getting hit with some of the worst wildfires and hurricanes in recorded history. There’s civil unrest nationwide, the economy is on the brink, and of course, the pandemic has turned our lives upside down.We must be prepared to respond to emergencies - meteorological or otherwise - so that we canhelp pets and the people who love them.Louisiana has been battered by storms over the last few weeks. To learn more about the situation we check in with Acadiana Animal Aid, an organization

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48:10

Moving Beyond Bias with CARE

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/09/17

In previous episodes of the podcast, we’ve covered the lack of diversity in our industry and how that has affected our ability to save lives. We discussed ways that we can work on breaking down our unconscious biases and how we can focus on meaningful approaches to diversity, equality, and inclusion. But we’ve barely scratched the surface when it comes to understanding what we need to do to continue movingforward on this issue. That’s why we must keep the conversation going.This week we share the

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Reaching New Heights in Animal Services - Innovator...

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/09/10

What do you get when you take 18 of the best and brightest lifesaving innovators, pair them up, put them on a Zoom call and hit record? You get magic!The Best Friends Professional Development Symposium is happening next week. The two-day, online event features short, fast-paced presentations designed to keep attendees engaged and excited. But every single presenter has so much more to share. That left us with a dilemma. How do we capture more from these amazing people to share with Symposium

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