• Feral Cat TNR Programs: Animal Humane, Street Cat Companions & the Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department work collaboratively to spay/neuter more than 3,110 feral cats annually.
• High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter: Local organizations provide low-cost spay/neuter options sterilizing an average of 4,350 pets annually. Animal Humane operates a statewide low-cost spay/neuter veterinary clinic database, SPAYNM.org.
• Rescue Groups: Over 50 local breed and rescue groups foster and adopt pets.
• Foster Care: More than 300 generous individuals care for and nurture homeless pets in their homes annually.
• Comprehensive Adoption Programs: With a variety of creative initiatives ranging from cats placed for adoption in local businesses to satellite adoption centers throughout Albuquerque, we seek out every avenue to re-home as many pets as possible.
• Pet retention: By utilizing numerous resources including free behavior counseling, low-cost veterinary care and pet food banks we help keep people and their pets together for life.
• Medical and Behavior Programs: Extensive care for the mental and physical health of homeless pets is imperative in saving lives. We have employed rigorous procedures and programs to ensure the well-being of homeless pets awaiting adoption.
  
• Public Relations/Community Involvement/Media: We utilize every marketing tool available to increase adoptions and encourage support from our community. From social media to guerilla marketing tactics, we constantly strive to make pet adoption our community’s first option.
• Volunteers: With more than 600 people donating their time annually, we have dedicated volunteers that fuel and enable our progress.
• Proactive Redemptions: When lost pets are not reunited with their families, they become homeless pets. From extensive lost/found efforts to low-cost microchip clinics, we work tirelessly to reconnect and keep pets with owners.
  
• Compassionate Directors: Dedicated and experienced leadership committed to attaining the goal of making our community no kill serves as the driving force behind our endeavor.

About Maddie’s Fund®
Maddie was a beloved Miniature Schnauzer whose unconditional love, devotion, loyalty and spirit inspired her guardians to start a charitable foundation, Maddie's Fund, in her name. One of the largest animal welfare funds in the nation, Maddie’s Fund awards millions of dollars through multi-year grants to animal welfare coalitions to end the killing of healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats community-wide as they work towards becoming an “Adoption Guarantee Community.”  The entire grant cycle can last 10 years in recognition of the time it takes to build the infrastructure and programs to achieve Adoption Guarantee status.  For example, Maricopa County (AZ) is in Year 5 of their cycle, with a total funding potential of $8.7 million in funding.