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August 11, 2018

Interview! Erin Robinson, Community Cats Program Manager at Humane Rescue Alliance

“Return to Field has always been the right decision for cats who are thriving and have somewhere to go.” Erin Robinson admits that once upon a time, she simply didn’t know that community cats existed, let alone what you were supposed to do about them. That all began to change […]

March 9, 2019

Interview! Kim Saunders, Operations Director, Liberty Humane Society

“People caring for [community] cats might not realize that the shelter supports them in their efforts to do so.” Kim Saunders was a practicing attorney when she decided to move into the animal welfare world full-time (after years of volunteering). She spent 15 years at Petfinder before moving into a […]

February 18, 2020

Dr. Andy Kaplan, The Toby Project

“I’ve always been passionate about saving lives. That’s just who I am as a vet.” Listen to Episode #339 Now In this episode, Stacy speaks with Dr. Andrew Kaplan, the veterinarian behind New York City’s The Toby Project. Andrew has been an animal advocate since he was a child. […]

February 25, 2020

Britney Fox Hover, Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society

“Whenever we can try to keep cats and people together, we do.” Listen to Episode #340 Now Britney Fox Hover, the shelter director at the Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society (MRFRS) in Salisbury, Massachusetts, began at MRFRS as a volunteer in 2009. In addition to now running the group’s […]

July 28, 2020

Carrie Lippert Gillaspie, Television & Podcast Host

“We’re changing the culture and we’re shifting how people are viewing community cats in our area.” Listen to Episode #362 Now This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com. Other sponsorship consideration provided by The Cat Fanciers’ Association and The American Association of Feline Practitioners. In this episode, Stacy […]

August 3, 2020

Pastor Larry Vandever, Coalition for Feral Cats of Lehigh Valley (PA)

“Our slogan is: We speak for them because they cannot. Our motto is: We never say no.” Listen to Episode #363 Now This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com, The Cat Fanciers’ Association, Kitty Sift, and The American Association of Feline Practitioners. Pastor Larry Vandever, a former police officer […]

January 5, 2021

Dr. Michael Blackwell, Director of the Program for Pet Health Equity, University of Tennessee

“If you want to improve the health outcomes for animals…then you need to factor in people and you need to factor in the environment or their ecosystem. Likewise improving the outcomes for humans, requires an attention to the animals and the environment or ecosystem.” Listen to Episode #385 Now […]

January 12, 2021

Mikaela Fleisher, PennyFix

“What if we added a penny a can to every can of cat and dog food sold in the United States and we used that money to fund spaying and neutering, rabies and distemper vaccines?” Listen to Episode #386 Now This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com. Mikaela […]

January 19, 2021

Allen Kamrava, Eusoh

“I was just really fed up with healthcare, not as a physician, but with the structural mechanisms of how healthcare operates, and really focused in on what was happening with insurance” Listen to Episode #387 Now This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com. Our guest this week, Allen […]

February 2, 2021

James Evans, President, CARE

“Diverse audiences always bring, I think, extra things to the table, things that people often don’t think about” Listen to Episode #389 Now This episode is sponsored in part by KittySift and Doobert.com. This week Stacy talks to James Evans, president of CARE and multi-award winning creative strategist and […]

February 4, 2021

Feline Fix by Five

Today’s guest post comes to us from Krista Beucler, Marketing & Communications Intern at Community Cats Podcast. Fix cats by five months? To those of you working in a shelter setting, this idea might not make a lot of sense, as you’re probably already spaying and neutering kittens by 8 weeks […]

February 9, 2021

Sam Wilson – Program Director, Iowa Humane Alliance

“No one could afford to pay for [the spay/neuter of] an outdoor community cat…That made me aware of the very common problem of community cat overpopulation and how desperate of a need there was for affordable spay/neuter.” Listen to Episode #390 Now This episode is sponsored in part by […]

April 27, 2021

Rachel Herman, Founder and Executive Director, PAWS (NY)

“Our goal is to really provide comprehensive care that eliminates the barriers our clients are facing in keeping their pets with them at home where they are loved and where they can benefit from that important, powerful human-animal bond.” Listen to Episode #401 Now This episode is sponsored in […]

August 3, 2021

Lisa Wysocki, Co-director Fido Fixers

“The big lesson we learned was that before we give Fido [a mobile clinic] to any group, they have to have a dedicated vet already hired.” Listen to Episode #415 Now This episode is sponsored in part by Smalls Fresh Cat Food and Doobert.com. Lisa got involved in animal welfare […]

August 11, 2018