National Kitten Coalition

2022 NKC Veterinary Conference
2022-10-02 10:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Join colleagues at the 3rd annual National Kitten Coalition Veterinary Conference!
This one-day, live, online event welcomes renowned speakers and attendees from around the world with the common goal of sharing information to help kittens and increase their survival rates.
Click here for speaker and presentation information!
Thanks to our sponsors, NKC is able to offer this event at a substantially reduced registration price of $45. Registration includes access to the live event as well as to the session recordings. Click here to register!
Interested in sponsoring this event to help keep the registration cost affordable? Click here to see the Sponsorship Brochure!

Are you ready for CATastrophe?
2022-09-07 14:00 - 15:00
Disasters can affect anyone. Preparing to care for your family, pets, fosters, and shelter animals during and after an emergency is vital before the disaster hits.
This session will offer participants a brief overview of emergency planning and response for animal shelters, rescue groups, and foster parents, with a focus on considerations for kittens. It will cover common emergencies to prepare for, information on creating an emergency plan for shelters and foster homes in advance of a crisis, and agencies and organizations that can help with the process. We will also touch on the concept of community animal response teams and how you can join or create a team within your community.
Speaker: Joanna Fortin, Director of Community Programs, Animal Welfare League of Alexandria (VA)
Click here to register for this free webinar!

Diarrhea on the Run
2022-08-17 18:00 - 19:00
This FREE webinar is presented by The National Kitten Coalition. Get the down and dirty basics about diarrhea in kittens. Understand the causes, know what you can do to provide supportive care, and learn about treatment options to address a variety of diarrhea causes.
Presenter: Rosemarie Crawford, LVT
Click here to register for this free webinar!

What Color is My Cat?
2022-07-21 14:00 - 15:00
A colorful, fun presentation, based on Cat Genetics “101”, describing the fundamentals of identifying cat colors and patterns.
The presentation also discusses some of the most popular breeds of cats. With less than 5% of companion cats being an actual “breed” of cat, the common model of describing dogs in terms of combinations of “breeds”, doesn’t work in the world of cats.
Participants learn that “tabbies” are not a breed of cat but all cats are tabby cats! What’s the difference between a tortie and a calico, why do some white kittens have a little black mark on the top of their heads, what do all pointed cats have in common? Participants learn the answers and much more.
Speaker: Vickie Fisher, President, EveryCat Health Foundation
Click here to register for this free webinar!

Kitten Safety - Summer Edition
2022-06-28 19:00 - 19:30
Join us in a presentation highlighting potential safety hazards and practical ways to keep your kittens safe this summer season!
Presenter: Rosemarie Crawford, LVT
Click here to register for this FREE webinar!

Fading Kitten Syndrome--Fight the Fade
2022-06-16 14:00 - 15:00
Description: This webinar will discuss fading kitten syndrome including signs, causes, treatments and prevention.
With the information provided in the webinar, attendees will understand these aspects of FKS and be better able to help kittens by recognizing early signs of “fading”, taking immediate and appropriate actions, and knowing what can be done to prevent some cases of fading kitten syndrome from ever occurring in the first place.
Presenter: Rosemarie Crawford, LVT
Click here to register for this FREE webinar!

2022 Online Kitten Conference
2022-06-10 19:00 - 2022-06-12 17:00
The 2022 Online Kitten Conference, hosted in partnership with our friends at The Community Cats Podcast, promises to be another great event offering amazing speakers and useful information to help shelters, rescues, foster parents and the general public save kittens and provide excellent care to get them started off on the right paw along the path to happy, healthy adult lives.
This three-day virtual gathering will feature presentations by experts on raising and saving kittens, setting up and managing kitten-centered shelter programs, and more. Since this is a virtual event, you’ll have an opportunity to gain valuable insights and have your questions answered by some of the most knowledgeable leaders in the animal welfare community—without the expense and hassle of traveling.
The cost for registration is $75 for three engaging days.
Click to Register!
Dates and Times:
June 10th 7:00-8:30PM EST.
June 11th & 12th | 10:00AM-5:00PM EST.

Pregnancy and Birth- Caring for Pregnant and Nursing Cats and their Kittens
2022-05-19 14:00 - 15:00
Description: Pregnant queens with their tiny baby kittens are already arriving in many parts of our country – and in some places, the kitten season never stops! These moms and their babies need trained fosters to save their lives.
Have you thought about fostering a mom with kittens? Have you fostered already, but would like to know more? Join us for this free training!
Presenter: Susan Spaulding, AKA “Kitten Mom”
Click here to register for this FREE webinar!

Purr-fect First Aid Tips for Kitties with Arden Moore
2022-04-21 14:00 - 15:00
Join The National Kitten Coalition and guest speaker Arden Moore for some First Aid Tips as we enter kitten season!
If you can’t join us for the live presentation, don’t worry! Sign-up anyway, because a recording of this, and the other Webinars, will be available on NKC’s eLearning Center no later than 2 weeks after it airs.
Presenter: Arden Moore: Master Pet First Aid/CPR Instructor and Founder of Pet First Aid 4 U.
Click here to register for this FREE webinar!

Immediate Critical Care for the Kitten
2022-04-06 18:00 - 19:00
What do you do when you find a kitten that has been found outside exposed to the elements? What issues do you need to address immediately before you ever offer a kitten a bottle?
In this webinar, we will discuss how to recognize hypo- and hyperthermia, hypoglycemia, dehydration and more, and get you the info you need to start intervening for your kitten right away.
We want you to feel confident in getting baby through this rough patch of life and on to a solid road of recovery and growth.
Presenter: Susan Spaulding (Kitten Mom)
Click here to register for this FREE webinar!

Bottle-Feeding Kittens 101
2022-03-24 14:00 - 15:00
Description: How much do I feed a kitten? How often? How much? How do I mix the formula? There are so many things to learn when it comes to feeding a tiny kitten.
In this webinar, we will teach you the basics on how to safely bottle-feed a neonatal kitten and help it grow!
Presenter: Susan Spaulding, AKA “Kitten Mom”
Click here to register for this FREE webinar!

Kitten Safety - Spring Edition
2022-03-10 19:00 - 19:30
Description: Join us in a presentation highlighting potential safety hazards and practical ways to keep your kittens safe this spring season!
Presenter: Rosemarie Crawford, LVT
Click here to register for this FREE webinar!

Webinar: Kitten Technology to the Rescue
2022-02-17 18:00 - 19:00
Kitten Technology to the Rescue: Deep Dive into Doobert Fosterspace, Case Management, and RescueTUBE Technology Tools
Does your kitten foster program need some tech to help you take it to another level?
Join us as the founder of Doobert, Chris Roy, gets us caught up on the latest features with their amazing Fosterspace toolset, their RescueTUBE module that makes it easy to get videos back from fosters, and their newest release, Companion Case Management (CCM).
All of these amazing tools in one platform that brings you over 35,000 volunteers and is the only platform that manages transport. We’ll leave plenty of time for Q&A as this is a session we know you don’t want to miss!
Speaker: Chris Roy, Creator of Doobert.com & Host of The Animal Innovation Show Podcast
Click here to register for this free webinar!

Webinar: The P's of Panleukopenia
2022-01-27 14:00 - 15:00
This webinar will cover information about various aspects of Panleukopenia including Presentation, disease Progression, treatment Protocols and Prevention.
Attendees will learn how to recognize signs of the illness and respond with supportive care and treatments as prescribed by a veterinarian.
This presentation will provide need-to-know information for everyone who fosters and cares for kittens. Be prepared before Panleukopenia strikes!
Presenter: Rosemarie Crawford, LVT
Click here to register for this FREE webinar!

Webinar: Kitten Safety - Holiday Edition
2021-12-01 13:00 - 14:00
The holidays are an exciting time of the year but some traditions can pose risks to your pets.
Join us for a free webinar highlighting potential safety hazards and practical ways to keep your kittens safe this holiday season!
Click here to register for this FREE webinar!
Can’t make the live event? No problem. Register anyway, and we’ll send you a link to watch the recording at your leisure.

Webinar: Are you ready for CATastrophe?
2021-09-28 18:00 - 19:00
Disasters can affect anyone. Preparing to care for your family, pets, fosters, and shelter animals during
and after an emergency is vital before the disaster hits.
This session will offer participants a brief overview of emergency planning and response for animal shelters, rescue groups, and foster parents, with a focus on considerations for kittens. It will cover common emergencies to prepare for, information on creating an emergency plan for shelters and foster homes in advance of a crisis, and agencies and organizations that can help with the process. We will also touch on the concept of community animal response teams and how you can join or create a team within your community.
Our speaker is Joanna Fortin, Director of Community Programs for the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria in Alexandria, Virginia.
Click here to register for this FREE webinar!

National Kitten Coalition Veterinary Conference
2021-09-19 10:00 - 18:30
Join colleagues at the 2nd annual National Kitten Coalition Veterinary Conference!
This one-day, live, online event welcomes renowned speakers and attendees from around the world with the common goal of sharing information to help kittens and increase their survival rates.
Thanks to our sponsors, NKC is able to offer this event at a substantially reduced registration price. Registration includes access to the live event as well as to the session recordings through December 31, 2021.
The conference offers RACE CE for veterinary professionals in jurisdictions which recognize RACE CE. Click here for details.
Click here for speaker and presentation information!

Caring for Bottle Babies: Saving Lives of the Littlest Ones
2021-07-17 12:00 - 14:00
The National Kitten Coalition’s Susan Spaulding, aka “Kitten Mom” will be presenting a workshop as part of a four-day event in Galax, Virginia! She’ll be teaching the basics of care for newborn, orphaned kittens including immediate critical care; monitoring, weighing, feeding and general care of neonates; assessing medical needs and more!
This event spans July 15 through July 17, 2021 and includes workshops for Trap-Neuter-Return and volunteering in your community, a community discussion about animal welfare as well as a low-cost vaccination clinic!
The location is the Galax Municipal Golf Course Facility, 107 Country Club Lane, Galax, Virginia 24333.
Check out the Galax event flyer and if you have questions, please contact Alice Burton at ‭(703) 855-9541‬.

2021 Online Kitten Conference
2021-06-11 - 2021-06-13
The Online Kitten Conference is back in 2021 for the third consecutive year and will again feature amazing speakers and a wide range of information all about kittens!
Join us for a kitten-focused event presented by The National Kitten Coalition and the Community Cats Podcast. This three-day virtual gathering will feature presentations by experts on raising and saving kittens, setting up and managing kitten-centered shelter programs, and much more.
Click here to learn more and register!

Webinar: Ask Kitten Mom!
2021-05-26 18:00 - 18:30
Ask Susan Spaulding, aka ‘The Nation’s Kitten Mom’ from The National Kitten Coalition your burning questions about bottle-feeding neonates.
We recommend that you watch NKC’s webinar course about bottle-feeding kittens in the National Kitten Coalition eLearning Center ahead of time too!
Click here to register.

NKCKittenNurseryConference/2021 Session 3
2021-04-24 11:00 - 13:00
• Want to start or improve a kitten nursery at your shelter or rescue?
• Need to know the latest information about what works for neonatal kittens?
• Volunteer at a shelter or rescue and want to get a kitten nursery up and running?
• Want to know how to handle kitten-related “curve balls”?
Then this National Kitten Coalition Conference is for you!
Session 3: April 24, 11:00 am-1:00 pm EDT
Dealing with Curve Balls.
Nurseries get hit with curve balls all the time and you need to be ready to turn on a dime when one does. Walking us through turning the curve balls into home runs will be:
• Samantha Friedman, St. Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center
• Karina Josenhans, Manager, Animal Logistics and Dr. Allison Bliss, Veterinary Staff and Programs Manager, both with ASPCA® Kitten Nursery
• Jackie Noble, Nursery and Foster Manager, San Diego Humane Society
Click here to learn more and register!

NKCKittenNurseryConference/2021 Session 2
2021-04-10 16:00 - 18:00
• Want to start or improve a kitten nursery at your shelter or rescue?
• Need to know the latest information about what works for neonatal kittens?
• Volunteer at a shelter or rescue and want to get a kitten nursery up and running?
• Want to know how to handle kitten-related “curve balls”?
Then this National Kitten Coalition Conference is for you!
Session 2: April 10, 4:00–6:00 pm EDT
Starting and Running a Kitten Nursery With Scarce or Challenging Resources.
How do you start or run a kitten nursery when you have nothing? These experts will provide the answers for you:
• Maggie Lynch, Development Director, Austin Pets Alive!
• Nicole Wisneskie, Nursery Lead, Best Friends Animal Society-Los Angeles
Click here to learn more and register! Register by March 15 for Early Bird discount.

NKCKittenNurseryConference/2021 Session 1
2021-03-27 16:00 - 18:00
• Want to start or improve a kitten nursery at your shelter or rescue?
• Need to know the latest information about what works for neonatal kittens?
• Volunteer at a shelter or rescue and want to get a kitten nursery up and running?
• Want to know how to handle kitten-related “curve balls”?
Then this National Kitten Coalition Conference is for you!
Session 1: March 27, 4:00–6:00 pm EDT
Starting or Running a Neonatal Kitten Nursery With No Shelter/Rescue Facility.
Our speakers do just this, in different ways:
• Simone Kelham, Founder, Newborn Kitten Rescue
• Susan Spaulding, National Kitten Coalition Co-Founder and Director of Neonatal Programs; Vice President and Senior Neonatal Foster, NC Paws Rescue
• Marnie Russ, National Kitten College Program Administrator, Animal Welfare League of Arlington
Click here to learn more and register! Register by March 15 for Early Bird discount.

Webinar: Kitten Bottle-Feeding 101
2021-03-08 15:00 - 16:00
How much do I feed a kitten? How often? How much? How do I mix the formula?
There are so many things to learn when it comes to feeding a tiny kitten. In this free webinar we will teach you the basics on how to safely bottle-feed a neonatal kitten and help it grow!
Speaker: Susan Spaulding, Director of Neonatal Programs, The National Kitten Coalition
Click here to register for this FREE webinar.
This kitten life-saving project was made possible in part through a generous Grant from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®.

Webinar: Basic Immediate Critical Care for the Kitten
2021-02-15 13:00 - 14:00
What do you do when you find a kitten that has been found outside exposed to the elements? What issues do you need to address immediately before you ever offer a kitten a bottle?
In this free webinar from The National Kitten Coalition, we’ll discuss how to recognize hypo- and hyperthermia, hypoglycemia, dehydration and more, and get you the information you need to start intervening for your kitten right away.
We want you to feel confident in getting kittens through this rough patch of life and on to a solid road of recovery and growth.
This webinar is especially great for first responders like TNR, ACO and shelter/rescue personnel who handle these babies for the first time.
Speaker: Susan Spaulding, Director of Neonatal Programs, The National Kitten Coalition
Click here to register for this FREE webinar.
This kitten life-saving project was made possible in part through a generous grant from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®.

Webinar: The New Normal: Spay/Neuter by Five Months of Age
2021-01-18 16:00 - 17:00
The National Kitten Coalition is excited to host Dr. Philip Bushby and Esther Mechler from the Feline Fix by Five program of Marian’s Dream to present on sterilizing kittens by five months of age.
There is confusion in the general public and private veterinary community about the optimum time to spay/neuter felines. For many, the recommended time has been six months of age. By that time a cat may be pregnant and shelters are overflowing. For that reason, Marian’s Dream embarked on a campaign to push the recommended age for felines back by four weeks. Dr. Bushby will present his findings on why the change is recommended, specific concerns that people have raised, and the research that supports the change.
Veterinarians often wait until cats are 6 months old before spay/neuter. The AVMA, AAHA, AAFP and the ASV disagree with waiting that long. The new normal is prior to 5 months of age. Several factors have led to this change:

Mammary neoplasia is the 3rd most common cancer in cats and 85 to 90% of feline mammary tumors are malignant. Spay before 5 months of age significantly reduces mammary neoplasia.
Spay/Neuter prior to 5 months of age reduces unplanned and unwanted litters of kittens.
Castration prior to 5 months of age significantly reduces sexual behaviors which often cause relinquishment of cats to animal shelters.

It is safe to spay/neuter cats that young. Surgeries are easier, faster and safer. There are no adverse physiologic or orthopedic effects from spay/neuter prior to 5 months of age. Cats in shelters should be sterilized prior to adoption. Owned cats should be sterilized after the kitten vaccination series, but before 5 months of age.
Click here to register
*The recording for this webinar will be available on NKC’s Archived Webinar page within a few weeks after the webinar ends.

Webinar: Splish, Splash, I’m Taking a Bath!
2020-11-14 11:00 - 12:00
Kittens often come to us dirty, with skin issues, or ectoparasites that need to be removed. Keeping kittens clean is one of the keys to keeping them healthy and thriving! In this free webinar, you will learn how to safely and effectively bathe your kitten(s).
This kitten life-saving project was made possible in part through a generous Grant from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Speaker: Susan Spaulding, aka ‘Kitten Mom’, Director of Neonatal Programs for The National Kitten Coalition
Click here to register for this FREE webinar!

National Kitten Coalition Veterinary Conference
2020-11-08 10:00 - 17:15
We invite veterinary professionals to join us for the one-day, online conference all about kittens! Join colleagues from around the world to hear speakers from all across the US present on veterinary topics specifically about kittens.
This conference program has been approved by the AAVSB for 4.5 hours of RACE CE, and thanks to our generous donors and supporters, registration is FREE!
Click here for information about the conference sessions and speakers and click here to register.

Webinar: Life and Limb: A Discussion of Leg and Paralysis Issues in Kittens
2020-10-12 13:00 - 14:00
In rescue, almost by definition, we see kittens that face health challenges, including limb abnormalities. In the past, others simply said we cannot or will not help, but YOU can with a little knowledge, help from your veterinarian, and some elbow grease.
Leg and paralysis issues are not uncommon in kittens; from the simple “twisted leg syndrome” to the more serious traumatic spinal issues. In this free webinar, Susan Spaulding, also known as ‘Kitten Mom’ will discuss how you can work with your veterinarian to do as much as possible to help these kittens. She will describe protocols you can start early to help achieve the best outcomes, and will touch on some of the ways you can modify common items to fit your tiny kitten. Susan will also discuss tools like the Assisi Loop and laser therapy that can aid in the healing process.
This kitten life-saving project was made possible in part through a generous Grant from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®.
Speaker: Susan Spaulding, Director of Neonatal Programs, The National Kitten Coalition
Click here to register for this FREE webinar.

American Association of Feline Practitioner’s 2020 Virtual Conference
2020-10-03 10:00 - 2020-10-04 17:00
We’ll be exhibiting at the American Association of Feline Practitioner’s 2020 Virtual Conference on October 3-4 and October 24-25.
Visit our booth and learn about what NKC can do to help you save more kittens lives! For more information about the Conference visit: https://catvets.com/education/conference/
