Sentences with phrase «director of operation catnip»
Dr. Julie Levy, Director of Maddie's ® Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida, and Shaye Olmstead, Executive Director of Operation Catnip, gave a presentation at Face - to - Face with Feral Freedom in Jacksonville, FL, demonstrating how a tiny staff, a giant volunteer pool and a relentless will to save cats can end euthanasia as a way to manage populations, even in the most challenging communities.
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The timing could not have been better, since Dr. Julie Levy, Director of Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program and founder of Operation Catnip, was currently teaching a course on community cat management.
Amanda recently joined the Operation Catnip Board of Directors and is excited to help the organization reach new heights of life - saving!
Founded by Dr. Julie Levy, director of the Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, the trap - neuter - return (TNR) program known as Operation Catnip has been running free high - quality, high - volume spay / neuter clinics for community cats in Gainesville for more than 16 years.
«Operation Catnip is dedicated to making the lives of both people and cats in every community better,» said director Audrey Garrison.
Now, thanks to an educational grant from PetSmart Charities, they're making their training program and materials available to veterinarians, veterinary students, and veterinary technicians from all over the U.S. «Our vision is to train an army of veterinarians to spay and neuter America's community cats,» said Dr. Julie Levy, the founder of Operation Catnip and director of the Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine.
Trap - and - release programs like Operation Catnip are unpopular with bird lovers who are not happy that the feral cats are being put back on the streets, said Rick Chaboudy, executive director of the Humane Society of North Pinellas.
«People wait a lot longer to look for their cats, because they're used to their cats kind of wandering off for a while,» says Julie Levy, professor of shelter medicine at the University of Florida's College of Veterinary Medicine and medical director at Operation Catnip, which operates community cat spay / neuter clinics in Gainesville, Florida.