Maddie’s Neonatal Kitten Nursery Apprenticeship

Maddie's Neonatal Kitten Nursery Apprenticeship The No-Kill Training Academy at Austin Pets Alive!

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Neonatal Program

Policies, Procedures, and Protocols

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THE MISSION OF THE NEONATAL PROGRAM

The mission of the Neonatal Program is to grow with the needs of the organization and the community to be able to accept all kittens that local shelters and rescue groups cannot keep; to provide the best possible care for these kittens to achieve the highest possible survival rate to get them adopted into permanent homes; and in so doing, to help maintain Austin's No-Kill Status. The Austin Pets Alive! Neonatal Program was developed in 2009 to rescue orphaned kittens from shelters that do not have the human, physical, or financial resources to care for them and that would otherwise euthanize the kittens. Our program feeds and cares for the kittens until they are healthy and old enough to be spayed or neutered and enter the cat program for adoption. In addition to feeding and housing the kittens, the neonatal team, with the help of our medical team, also takes care of any medical needs that they have. The program also accepts pregnant cats and their kittens when they're born, and nursing cats with their litters. Due to the fragile nature of neonates, the special needs of mother cats and their litters, and the large number of animals taken in, the Neonatal Program has developed procedures and protocols specific to the needs of these animals in accordance with veterinary practices, and has created an organizational structure to accomplish this goal.

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