WELCOME CAT VOLUNTEERS! 3100 Cherry Hill Road Ann Arbor, MI (734)

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1 WELCOME CAT VOLUNTEERS! 3100 Cherry Hill Road Ann Arbor, MI (734)

2 Introductions 1. Your Name 2. One place you would like to visit (can be near or far) 3. Your favorite activity outside of HSHV

3 Tonight s Agenda Statistics and Numbers What's New? Behavior Team s Jess V Foster Manager Ann E Questions and Answers

4 Statistics Words words

5 More cats in & More cats out YTD Volunteer Hours Cat Intake Cat Adoptions

6 Blue Dot Follow Up 1,134 volunteer hours Sept-Dec 2015 = 50 cats Jan. Sept 14 th 144 cats Currently 19 cats

7 Cat Live Release Rate (Save Rate) Remains the same as last year 92%! The national average is 55%

8 Anura Female, 5 years old Came in 2011 as a kitten with a stray mom Surrendered in May 2016 Adopted August 29 th 2016

9 Mork Female, 10 years old Surrendered February 2016 Adopted August 31 st 2016

10 Peach Female, 6 years old Found as a stray in May of 2016 Adopted August 29 th, 2016

11 What s New?

12 Tiny Lions Washtenaw County s premier Cat Café 5370 visitors in first four months 98(!) adoptions and counting

13 3100 Cherry Hill Road Ann Arbor, MI (734)

14 3100 Cherry Hill Road Ann Arbor, MI (734)

15 3100 Cherry Hill Road Ann Arbor, MI (734)

16 3100 Cherry Hill Road Ann Arbor, MI (734)

17 OUT AND ABOUT WITH DEREK KEVRA FOX 2 NEWS 3100 Cherry Hill Road Ann Arbor, MI (734)

18 Tiny Lions Volunteer Program Monthly New Volunteer Orientation Allows crossover for HSHV volunteers Various Roles Available

19 Feline Leukemia Cats (FeLV +) 3100 Cherry Hill Road Ann Arbor, MI (734)

20 What is Feline Leukemia? RetroVirus Transmitted through nasal and saliva secretions, also urine, feces and milk Mutual grooming, bite wounds, litter box sharing (rare) Can be passed from mother to kittens Reduces immune system Diagnosed through a blood test

21 Housing FeLV + Cats in Admin What is it like to work alongside cats?

22 Team Players

23 Kitty Chatter All Day!

24 Micro-Managers

25 Let Us Know What Needs to Be Done

26 Not Great at Communicating

27 Always Thinking Outside the Box

28 Sleeping on the Job

29 Always There To Clean Up Our Messes

30 Visiting Admin Sanitize your hands entering and leaving Refrain from petting as much as possible, especially when working with cats or going right home to your cats

31 Nima Shaffe and Lucky 7

32 WELCOME JESS V! 3100 Cherry Hill Road Ann Arbor, MI (734)

33 Blue Dot Cats Great success so far.. Nicks!!! How should we talk about BD cats? Each BD cat is unique Shelter stress vs true behavior Space, time and understanding Finding their people

34 Barn Buddies Why we do it Where we find adopters Approval process Selecting cats Social vs fearful Follow up process

35 WELCOME ANN! 3100 Cherry Hill Road Ann Arbor, MI (734)

36 When and why do cats go to foster? Who decides when and why a cat goes to foster? Behavior Medical Age related

37 Behavior reasons for foster Shy cats, timid cats, unhappy cats, cats who hate being in cages, cats who dislike other cats, cats who need a break. Sadies cat

38 When and why do cats go to foster? Cats in foster Moya - senior kitty doesn t care for other cats in her space.

39 When and why do cats go to foster? Cats who are very shy Maybon

40 When and why do cats go to foster? Kittens who are unsocial need a special kind of foster.

41 When and why do cats go to foster? Medical issues include things like excess adorableness and chronic sinusitis. This is Stewart

42 When and why do cats go to foster? Other medical issues could be as complex as getting Diabetes under control, as with Houdini here

43 When and why do cats go to foster? Medical can be weight issues too thin, not eating well, like beautiful Ella here

44 When and why do cats go to foster? Cats and kittens both need foster for ringworm quarantine

45 When and why do cats go to foster? Or it can be the opposite too rotund, weight loss necessary, like Ole King Chauncey here

46 When and why do cats go to foster? Age related is almost but not always KITTENS!

47 When and why do cats go to foster? Kittens to foster range in age from unborn to newly born.

48 When and why do cats go to foster? Mama cats do all the dirty work for you, feeding, cleaning, litter box training. You take care of Mama, she cares for the kittens!

49 When and why do cats go to foster? Orphan kittens require more work on your part but they are totally worth it.

50 When and why do cats go to foster? They grow up so fast!

51 When and why do cats go to foster? Kittens generally come back to the shelter for sterilization and adoption at 2 months old.

52 Q & A