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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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Conference advice from the pros

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2022/04/28

The pandemic stopped many things in our personal and professional lives, including animal welfare conferences. We were lucky to have virtual options to help tide us over, but there's something different about being together in person.So with in-person travel and meetings starting to come back, there's a good chance you will be attending a conference this year. As it's been a while, you may be feeling overwhelmed at the thought of it all. We know we are!We thought we'd ask some of the wisest

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Saving lives in rural America w/ Cole Wakefield

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2022/04/21

Helping people and pets in rural America comes with many challenges. For example, how do you offer even the most basic veterinary services when there are no vets who can help within 100 miles, and buying a transport van is a pipe dream? How do you recruit new foster homes when you've already asked everyone in town? Reassigning staff to support new programs can be a valuable strategy, but how can you when overburdened employees already perform several roles - everything from animal care to adoptions,

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Finding lost cats with Lost Cat Finder Kim Freeman

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2022/04/07

Most estimates say that the number of lost pets each year is roughly 10 million. One in every three pets will be lost at some point. These staggering statistics are more than just numbers on a page - each one is a pet with a loving family desperate to find them and bring them home safely.Unfortunately, the number of lost pets in shelters which make it home is very low. The number of lost dogs getting home has improved in the last few years, but the odds of a lost owned cat in a shelter being

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31:55

Shelter collaborative program (part two)

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2022/03/31

Last week we heard all about the Best Friends shelter collaborative program. This peer-based mentorship model pairs up shelters with a track record of lifesaving success with shelters in need of the expertise and support a knowledgeable mentor can offer.Best Friends is planning to grow the shelter collaborative program this year, but you don’t need to be officially part of this program to pair up and save lives.This week we hear from Shelbi Waters, the executive director of Souris Valley Animal

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Shelter Collaborative Program

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2022/03/24

Collaboration comes in many forms. Maybe the most common type of collaboration in our work is through a coalition—an often large group comprised of stakeholders teaming up to achieve a broader, shared goal of community-wide success.Another approach to working together is the Best Friends shelter collaborative program, where strategic matches are made between two organizations. One shelter that has a proven track record of achieving and sustaining the 90% benchmark is paired with a shelter that is

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Lifesaving success favors the bold

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2022/03/17

It’s not easy to take risks, especially if you’re someone who prefers the familiar. But believing that change isn’t necessary because “this is how we’ve always done it” can be detrimental to your lifesaving efforts.Our field is constantly evolving, and to save as many lives as possible, we have to be willing to try new approaches, even when that means going beyond our comfort zone.This week we’re joined by two risk-takers, Stacy Rogers and Makena Yarbrough from Best Friends. We talk about why it’s

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59:45

Community-Supported Sheltering: Aligning all...

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2022/03/10

Community-supported sheltering is being talked about a lot right now, but it’s not a fad. Instead, it’s a natural shift in modern sheltering, as we go beyond the walls of our organizations and engage the myriad stakeholders to help us save more lives.When the shelter, field services, government, rescue organizations, the public, social service organizations, and others come together to save lives, it’s not only a beautiful thing. It’s a recipe that can help you achieve and sustain your

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26:51

Hope, Jane Goodall, and the power of belief, w/ Julie...

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2022/03/03

This week is part two from our conversation with Julie Castle, the CEO of Best Friends (if you missed part one that focused on pay inequality, check that out here: https://network.bestfriends.org/proven-strategies/best-friends-podcast/best-friends-podcast-ep-100).This part of the interview seemed to be especially fitting this week, given the events in animal welfare and the world-at-large, as Julie talks about hope, Jane Goodall, and the power of belief.

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

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2022/02/18

This week we're dipping into the archives to revisit one of our earliest episodes, and one that is also one of the most downloaded ever. So if you caught this the first time or not, we encourage you to give this one a listen. It was June of 2020, and the nation was gripped by racial tension and division exacerbated by the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed African American man in Minneapolis. Days of protests and demonstrations in all fifty states demanded an end to police brutality. It underscored

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Reducing pay inequality w/ Julie Castle

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2022/02/10

It's episode number 100 of The Best Friends Podcast, and we are thrilled to welcome back Julie Castle, the CEO of Best Friends Animal Society.Our conversation for this episode focused on a new compensation program rolled out at Best Friends, which raises the pay ranges for hourly animal caregiving staff and veterinary technicians.Julie talks about something she calls the "poverty headspace" and why the entire field must break away from the belief that animal care roles are "front-line" entry-level

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Kitten season is coming!

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2022/02/03

It may be hard to believe, but kitten season is just around the corner. In a few weeks, animal shelters and rescues coast-to-coast will be struggling to find enough resources to save this adorable and most at-risk segment of the shelter population.This week, Best Friends launched a national kitten fostering campaign that urges the public to sign up to become foster parents. Anyone who raises their hand will be connected with Best Friends Network partners in their area. The goal is to get as many

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The paradox of adopting out unaltered animals -...

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2022/01/28

There are 100,000 more pets in the care of shelters across the country than there were at this same time last year. It’s an overwhelming challenge and only exacerbated by the shortage of veterinary services.In many communities, unsterilized animals are not allowed to go home with an adopter before the spay/neuter surgery. Unequivocally, Best Friends Animal Society supports the spaying and neutering of pets. But we also believe every healthy or treatable pet in shelters deserves a loving

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28:54

What to watch for in 2022

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2022/01/20

As this new year gets underway, we’ve been thinking about what lies ahead for 2022. Of course, the last two years were a good reminder that even the best prognosticator can’t see everything coming, but that doesn’t mean we should stop thinking about the future.We asked the experts and settled on a “top five” list of areas that are most likely to be affecting you in one way or another in the weeks and months ahead (if they’re not already!). By no means an exhaustive list, today’s episode focuses on

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29:30

CARE Centers

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2022/01/13

As animal welfare focuses more on supporting petsandtheir people, how do we best provide those services in areas that historically have not had essential resources, such as veterinary services and pet supplies?CARE (Companions and Animals for Reform and Equity) recently launched a new program, CARE Centers. A model through which they hope will provide those services and engage the "proximate leaders" from within those neighborhoods. It's a unique approach and, if successful, could lead to CARE

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37:58

Cracking the code (rebroadcast)

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2022/01/06

The human-animal bond transcends all, regardless of where someone lives, their race, or how much they have in their bank account - pet ownership is for everyone. It’s a concept that is gaining more and more acceptance across animal welfare, and it has brought new approaches to keep people and pets together to the forefront.There have been shifts in animal services (called animal control or field services, depending on where you are). Historically, animal services departments have primarily focused

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51:43

Best of 2021

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2021/12/30

For our 48th and final episode of 2021, we're looking back at some of the best moments of the year.We had 66 different guests from 22 states, representing 40 organizations, rescues, foundations, and companies. They all had one thing in common; they shared their expertise and stories to help us all be more effective in our lifesaving work.We covered a lot of topics this year. Everything from DEI initiatives to data, saving senior pets to staffing, strategic planning, saving cats and helping pet

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How to establish and grow your animal welfare...

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2021/12/23

It’s Christmas Eve-Eve, and we hope you are having a safe and happy holiday season.As we talked about last week, the national level lifesaving data is starting to show some concerning trends, such as increased length of stay. One key lifesaving strategy is transport - moving animals from one community to another with fewer adoptable pets and greater demand.This episode is another fantastic session from the 2021 Best Friends National Conference. The presenter, Clare Callison from American Pets

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Length of stay in animal shelters on the rise

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2021/12/16

As the world attempts to return to some sense of normalcy, we're still feeling the impacts of the global pandemic across animal welfare. While there have been positives for the industry, the disruption of our daily lives over the last two years is showing its impact on lifesaving, and it's not all good news.One particular data point trending in the wrong direction is length of stay (LOS). This measurement is the amount of time an animal is in the shelter and can be a valuable tool to evaluate the

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Serving both ends of the leash in Spokane

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2021/12/09

When there is a pet in need, there is often a person in need. That intersection of people and pets is at the heart of a new partnership in the state of Washington.As the COVID-19 pandemic set in, the unknowns about the next few weeks and months raised concerns about the impact on pets. Would owners need help if they are struggling with illness? What would happen to the economy, and how would evictions impact pet owners? Unfortunately, affordable, pet-friendly housing is already in critically short

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Applying 12-Step principles to succeed, stay sane,...

The Best Friends Podcast ·

2021/12/02

Happy holidays to you from all of us here at The Best Friends Podcast!This is the busiest time of the year for many in animal welfare, with the end-of-year fundraising efforts in full swing. December is when we often focus on giving to others, but we want to ensure you don’t forget about yourself! This week’s episode focuses on our personal well-being courtesy of Melissa Treuman, the Senior Director of Communications for Bideawee.Melissa delivered this presentation during the 2021 Best Friends

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