the full schedule--all species, all topics is here: http://www.pethobbyist.com/ChatWeek7.html
the cat-specific schedule (including Feline Digital Photography with Helmi Flick tonight) is at http://www.cathobbyist.com/CatChat7.html a special note about a chat that it'd be nice to have FeLV parents at is this one: note the last two sentences in the first paragraph: nationwide adoption guarantee for all healthy shetler cats... (which, to my mind, includes FIVs!). The next step will be to save the sick and injured pets in animal shelters nationwide. seems like that's where we need to stand up, huh? Thursday March 3 Rich Avanzino of Maddies Fund Building a No-Kill Nation Thursday, March 3, at 9 PM Eastern, in the Auditorium Widely recognized as a visionary and "outside the box" thinker, Rich Avanzino has had a major influence on the nation's animal welfare movement. As President of The San Francisco SPCA from 1976-1999, Avanzino led San Francisco to become the first City and County in the nation to offer an adoption guarantee for every healthy shelter cat and dog (1994). This unprecedented guarantee prompted statewide legislation (California's Hayden Law) and sparked other cities, counties, and states to follow his example. The vast majority of the City's sick and injured shelter animals were saved as well. During his twenty-two year tenure as President of The SF/SPCA, Avanzino brought euthanasia rates down to the lowest of any urban center in the nation. He also created adoption, animal behavior, feral cat, and spay/neuter programs that have become models for the nation. Avanzino's demonstrated leadership prompted Maddie's Fund founders, Dave and Cheryl Duffield, to hire him as the foundation's first President in 1999. The family foundation is helping to fund the creation of a no-kill nation. The first goal is to help fund a nationwide adoption guarantee for all healthy shelter cats and dogs. The next step will be to save the sick and injured pets in animal shelters nationwide. As one of the no-kill movement's most articulate spokespeople, Avanzino has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, People Magazine, Parade Magazine, ABC's 20/20 and Person of the Week on the ABC Nightly News. if anyone needs more information, let me know--belinda was at the rescue panel chat on sunday, so she can tell you it's not that hard to access the chats! MaryChristine
