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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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18:41

Best Friends Professional Development Symposium

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/09/03

COVID-19 has turned the world upside down. In our lives, both professionally and personally, we’ve had to make big changes. From working at home to wearing masks to the operational changes we've had to make, life is a whole lot different than it was 6 months ago. And therestrictions on travel and gatherings meant animal welfare's "conference season" was over before it even started.The Best Friends Professional Development Symposium is not a replacement for the Best Friends National Conference, but

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Rebecca Guinn - Atlanta's Lifeline

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/08/27

Georgia’s efforts to save pets have come a long way in the last few years. The 2019 lifesaving progress dataset showed that statewide, Georgia increased lifesaving by more than 30-percent over the previous year. Metro Atlanta is a sprawling area consisting of 29 counties and two of them, Fulton and Dekalb, have undergone a radical transformation over the last 7 years.Rebecca Guinn founded Lifeline Animal Project in 2003. The organization has saved thousands of animals through its shelter and fixed

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19:06

Idaho Shelter Coalition leading Push Toward No-Kill...

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/08/20

Idaho may not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of animal welfare, but it should! Two years ago, a coalition was formed in an attempt to unite the shelters and organizations spread out over this vast, mostly rural state.The Idaho Shelter Coalition helped drive a 49.4% reduction in shelter killing in 2019, a result that has earned them the 2020 Best Friends Network Collective Impact Award!It's another perfect example of what can happen when we work together, communicateour needs,

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24:33

Removing Lifesaving Barriers

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/08/13

Fewer pets in shelters. More resources for people with pets. More animal-friendly communities. Healthier, happier animals with safe places to call home. These are our shared goals. But are we all doing as much as we can to achieve them?For example, what does your pet adoption process look like? Is it welcoming, conversation-based, and solution-oriented? Or is it full of roadblocks such as home visits, income questions, or multipage applications?Now more than ever, being a part of the sheltering and

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37:43

Spay It Ain't So!

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/08/06

Spay and neuter is the only way! We shouldn’t spend time or money doing anything else!Well, that’s not true at all, but there are still too many people who think that is the case. Widely available low-cost spay and neuter services are a critical part of the lifesaving program mix, but it is just one part of the recipe.So how much of your available resources should go to spay and neuter services versus other critical lifesaving programs? Given the challenges that lie ahead with an uncertain economy,

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17:35

More than 40-million Pets at Risk of Eviction

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/07/30

In 2016, 2.3-million Americans lived in a home that was served an eviction notice. During the foreclosure crisis in 2008, 10-million Americans lost their home. Experts believe that by the end of this year, 28-million Americans will face eviction due to the economic downturn related to the COVID-19 pandemic.Every community in every state will be affected, and by our rough estimate, more than 40-million pets are facing eviction - and that’s on the low end. As eviction moratoriums across the country

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58:57

One Million Cats and Counting

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/07/23

We’re gotten pretty good at saving dogs in shelters, but that’s not the case for cats. 69% of all animals killed last year were feline. That two-to-one ratio of cats killed to dogs has not improved year over year, and it’s clear that what we’ve been doing isn't effective. So what is working when it comes to saving cats?Launched in 2014, the Million Cat Challenge smashed its goal of saving one million cats in five years. The campaign encouraged shelters to save more cats by implementing five key

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Owner Requested Euthanasia

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/07/16

Starting in the 1970s, the animal sheltering movement slowly began to reject the practice of automatically euthanizing animals surrendered by the public at the owner's behest. This service, known as owner requested euthanasia (ORE), is still offered in many communities but only after consultation with the owner and the shelter staff and veterinarians. If the animal is determined to have an adequate quality of life, then other alternatives to save the life are considered.Making end of life decisions

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32:07

Treating Animals and People as Individuals

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/07/09

It wasn’t that long ago that the majority of dogs rescued from dogfighting operations were killed without any kind of behavior evaluation. It was widely accepted that they were too dangerous for a second chance. That changed with the rescue of the dogs from Michael Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels. The plea to evaluate the dogs was heard, and since that time, they have served as an example of how every animal should be treated as an individual.We have made great strides when it comes to treating every animal

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29:18

Telling Great Stories to Save Lives

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/07/02

Every animal is an individual and their journeys are as unique as they are. Each of them has a story waiting to be told and these stories are how we connect our community to the work we do.Writing effective adoption bios leads to higher adoption rates. Cutting through the increasing noise on social media requires captivating stories. Donors and volunteers need to feel invested in your mission before they will devote their time and money which will help you continue your work.This week we look at

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27:18

The New Data is Here, The New Data is Here!

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/06/25

Each year, a dedicated group of Best Friends staff and volunteers compile a colossal spreadsheet with 611,000 individual cells of data. This comprehensive dataset tracks lifesaving across the country and the latest numbers are in.It wasn’t that long ago that our field worked in the dark, not knowing where and how animals were being killed. It’s impossible to develop effective, targeted programs to save lives without this information. This changed when a collaborative group of stakeholders launched

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29:17

What's the Deal with Cats?

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/06/18

America loves cats. There are conventions entirely devoted to felines and the people who love them. The internet helped spur the mania with worldwide sensations like Grumpy Cat, who have forever changed popular culture. Despite our collective obsession with felines, they continue to be the animal most often killed in shelters. More than two-thirds of cats who enter shelters lose their lives.Some programs have proven to be effective, but widespread increases in the lifesaving of cats continue to be

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Permission to Feel with Dr. Marc Brackett

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/06/11

Caring for and protecting companion animals involves strong emotions. Understanding how we feel and harnessing our feelings for productive solutions, recognizing and respecting how others feel so that we can bring them along is equally as important as we navigate lifesaving change across the nation.Emotions impact every facet of the human experience. Decades of research shows that as we improve our emotional intelligence (EI), we can boost our decision-making, attention, memory, creativity, and

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Leaning in and Listening - Diversity and Inclusion in...

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/06/04

The nation isgripped by racial tensions and divisionexacerbatedby the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed African American man in Minneapolis. Days of protests and demonstrations in all fifty states are demanding an end to police brutality, and haveunderscoredconversations about institutionalized racism and the treatment of people of color in American society.Animal welfare and animal serviceslackdiversity and inclusion, both in our staffing and how we relate to the communities we serve. The number

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07:48

Emotional Intelligence - Our Super Power!

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/05/29

Think about the last time you were upset in your professional life. Maybe you were angry, or sad (or both). What did you do with that emotion? Did you allow it to affect you in a way that it threw you off your game?Our skill at managing emotions - of all kinds - can be measured by something called emotional intelligence. It’s not about removing the emotions, quite the opposite. How do you manage them so you can continue working toward your goals?In this episode, we look at a real-life example of

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Mission Possible - Lifesaving in the Florida Panhandle

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/05/26

Thanks to the most accurate and detailed dataset in animal welfare history, it is possible to see the number of animals killed nationally and all the way down to your community.Effectively usingthe data drives the lifesaving efforts of Best Friends. For communities that have a lot of lives to save, the embed program, as it's known, brings Best Friends staff to the community. Be it short term to help with a particular area, or, as is the case with Santa Rosa County, Florida, a full-time staff member

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43:52

American Pets Alive! Piloting Social Services Model...

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/05/22

Our work has evolvedrapidly the past several years as we all work to change an institutionalized sheltering system that was not designed tosavelives. The operational changes during COVID-19 have served to accelerate even more change and a determined group of leaders believes now is the time for us to create a new paradigm.Historically our focus has been on helping pets but people have not been given the same priority. Times have changed and while we’re better at the people part, this new modelof

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46:35

The Moonshot - No-Kill 2025

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/05/19

The progress towards a no-kill nation has been remarkable. From approximately 17-million animals killed in 1984 to 733,000 in 2019. Of course, one healthy or treatable pet killed is one too many.Saying we need to end the killing of pets is great, but it takes a strategy to help the 5,000 shelters across the country get there. And a strategy is great, but it’s even better when you get specific with your goal and add the urgency that the animals deserve.That’s No-Kill 2025. Working collaboratively,

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41:02

Let's Spay Together

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/05/15

As governments scrambled to react to the COVID-19 pandemic, one word dominated conversations related to stay at home orders. Essential. Is the service or business, critical to the health and welfare of the community? Where do animal services fit into that picture?While there’s little debate that animal control is necessary as a component of public safety, other elements of what we do were being judged on their merits. Spay and neuter surgeries were handled differently across the country both by

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41:49

Hannah Shaw - Kitten Lady

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2020/05/12

Neonatal kittens are one of the most vulnerable populations in animal shelters. The resources necessary to save them haven’t always been available but that has changed over the last few years. An ever-growing, committed group of volunteers has offered a lifeline to newborn kittens.Our guest, Hannah Shaw, has helped in a big way. She has amassed a huge audience which she uses to educate the world on the plight of orphaned kittens. Her beautifully produced educational content is teaching countless

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