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Project Purr (Santa Cruz) Reviews


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A Compassionate Director 5 average
5 posted by LeeHarvey, on 2015-05-05 21:51:15
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5 posted by LynneAchterberg, on 2015-05-05 15:23:16
Being receptive to new and changing programs and protocols keeps us on the cutting edge of a quickly changing world. Flexibility brings success for the organization and life for the animals!
Proactive Redemptions 5 average
5 posted by LeeHarvey, on 2015-05-05 21:51:12
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5 posted by LynneAchterberg, on 2015-05-05 15:20:56
MIcrochips and databases get animals home again.
Volunteers 5 average
5 posted by LeeHarvey, on 2015-05-05 21:51:07
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5 posted by LynneAchterberg, on 2015-05-05 15:20:05
We love our volunteers!
Public Relations/Community Involvement 5 average
5 posted by LeeHarvey, on 2015-05-05 21:51:04
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5 posted by LynneAchterberg, on 2015-05-05 15:19:00
Started a benefit resale shop to fund our many programs and gives us a place to call home. That makes us more accessible as a resource and keeps us in the public eye. Founded as a grassroots organization 28 years ago, we have our feet firmly planted in our supportive animal-loving community.
Medical and Behavior Programs 5 average
5 posted by LeeHarvey, on 2015-05-05 21:51:01
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5 posted by LynneAchterberg, on 2015-05-05 15:16:49
Using custom made hutches on sawhorses is the best way to rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home feral cats and kittens. Hutches are easy to service, clean, and work with the animals which makes our jobs easier and life-affirming!
Pet Retention 5 average
5 posted by LeeHarvey, on 2015-05-05 21:50:57
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5 posted by LynneAchterberg, on 2015-05-05 15:13:57
Project Purr started and runs a successful dog and cat food program that collects donated/salvaged pet food and distributes it to existing pantries and homeless shelters. "Fix & Feed, Pets In Need" piggy-backs on well-known programs to get the food to where it is most needed... and this keeps animals healthy and out of the shelter.
Comprehensive Adoption Programs 5 average
5 posted by LeeHarvey, on 2015-05-05 21:50:52
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5 posted by LynneAchterberg, on 2015-05-05 15:10:06
Barn cat programs are the new adoptions! Adopt an unsocial cat or kitten for rodent wrangling and save more lives while helping the planet go green!
Foster Care 5 average
5 posted by LeeHarvey, on 2015-05-05 21:50:48
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5 posted by LynneAchterberg, on 2015-05-05 15:08:45
Although Project Purr has a small volunteer foster care network, they educate and encourage so the community acts as the ultimate safety net for the animals.
Rescue Groups 5 average
5 posted by LeeHarvey, on 2015-05-05 21:50:44
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5 posted by LynneAchterberg, on 2015-05-05 15:07:26
Networking with rescue groups brings community together and saves resources.
High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter 5 average
5 posted by LeeHarvey, on 2015-05-05 21:50:39
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5 posted by LynneAchterberg, on 2015-05-05 15:06:44
Spay/neuter saves lives.
Feral Cat TNR Program 5 average
5 posted by LeeHarvey, on 2015-05-05 21:50:33
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5 posted by LynneAchterberg, on 2015-05-05 15:06:25
FREE TNR program, including rabies and FVRCP vaccines, parasite control package, ear tip and optional microchip, is available to all Santa Cruz County residents, regardless of income and no voucher required. Working with East Lake Animal Clinic, who is open 7 days a week for surgeries and no appointment required, make this ideal when trapping feral cats and kittens!
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1. Feral Cat TNR Program

Many communities are embracing Trap, Neuter, Release programs (TNR) to improve animal welfare, reduce death rates, and meet obligations to public welfare.


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2. High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter

Low cost, high volume spay/neuter will quickly lead to fewer animals entering the shelter system, allowing more resources to be allocated toward saving lives.


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3. Rescue Groups

An adoption or transfer to a rescue group frees up scarce cage and kennel space, reduces expenses for feeding, cleaning, killing, and improves a community's rate of lifesaving. In an environment of millions of dogs and cats killed in shelters annually, rare is the circumstance in which a rescue group should be denied an animal.


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4. Foster Care

Volunteer foster care is crucial to No Kill. Without it, saving lives is compromised. It is a low cost, and often no cost, way of increasing a shelter's capacity, improving public relations, increasing a shelter's public image, rehabilitating sick and injured or behaviorally challenged animals, and saving lives.


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5. Comprehensive Adoption Programs

Adoptions are vital to an agency's lifesaving mission. The quantity and quality of shelter adoptions is in shelter management's hands, making lifesaving a direct function of shelter policies and practice. In fact, studies show people get their animals from shelters only 20% of the time. If shelters better promoted their animals and had adoption programs responsive to the needs of the community, including public access hours for working people, offsite adoptions, adoption incentives, and effective marketing, they could increase the number of homes available and replace killing with adoptions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, shelters can adopt their way out of killing.


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6. Pet Retention

While some of the reasons animals are surrendered to shelters are unavoidable, others can be prevented-but only if shelters are willing to work with people to help them solve their problems. Saving animals requires communities to develop innovative strategies for keeping people and their companion animals together. And the more a community sees its shelters as a place to turn for advice and assistance, the easier this job will be.


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7. Medical and Behavior Programs

In order to meet its commitment to a lifesaving guarantee for all savable animals, shelters need to keep animals happy and healthy and keep animals moving through the system. To do this, shelters must put in place comprehensive vaccination, handling, cleaning, socialization, and care policies before animals get sick and rehabilitative efforts for those who come in sick, injured, unweaned, or traumatized.


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8. Public Relations/Community Involvement

Increasing adoptions, maximizing donations, recruiting volunteers and partnering with community agencies comes down to one thing: increasing the shelter's exposure. And that means consistent marketing and public relations. Public relations and marketing are the foundation of all a shelter's activities and their success. To do all these things well, the shelter must be in the public eye.


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9. Volunteers

Volunteers are a dedicated "army of compassion" and the backbone of a successful No Kill effort. There is never enough staff, never enough dollars to hire more staff, and always more needs than paid human resources. That is where volunteers come in and make the difference between success and failure and, for the animals, life and death.


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10. Proactive Redemptions

One of the most overlooked areas for reducing killing in animal control shelters are lost animal reclaims. Sadly, besides having pet owners fill out a lost pet report, very little effort is made in this area of shelter operations. This is unfortunate because doing so-primarily shifting from passive to a more proactive approach-has proven to have a significant impact on lifesaving and allow shelters to return a large percentage of lost animals to their families.


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11. A Compassionate Director

The final element of the No Kill equation is the most important of all, without which all other elements are thwarted-a hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired cliches or hide behind the myth of "too many animals, not enough homes." Unfortunately, this one is also oftentimes the hardest one to demand and find.


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