We’re excited to announce a new opportunity where we’ve expanded our team and focus to include combined shelter and community veterinary services consultations for dogs and cats. Is your community ready to implement sustainable veterinary services and increase access to care? Is your shelter ready to take your lifesaving to the next level?
Thanks to the generosity of Maddie’s® Fund, the Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge is offering this unique combination consultation completely free of charge to create sustainable, animal welfare communities of practice across the US!

If your organization is a veterinary clinic and you are interested in applying for the Community Combination Consultation, please click the button below to review the qualifying requirements and complete the application.

If your organization is an animal shelter and you are interested in applying for the Community Combination Consultation, please click the button below to review the qualifying requirements and complete the application.

If you are interested in your community receiving a combination shelter and a veterinary consultation:
The animal shelter should fill out the shelter application and the veterinary partner should fill out the veterinary application. A veterinary partner can be non-profit or for-profit. The animal shelter can be non-profit or a municipal facility.

If your organization operates both an animal shelter and a veterinary clinic, you will fill out both the Shelter application and the veterinary application. You will receive one notification regarding both applications.

If your organization interested in receiving only a veterinary consultation:
Organizations operating a veterinary clinic should fill out the veterinary application. You must be operating an actual clinic and not just referring services to a provider. Non-profits and for-profits accepted. Preference is given to communities seeking shelter and veterinary consultations.

If your organization is interested in receiving only a shelter consultation:
Organizations operating an animal shelter should fill out the shelter application. Non-profit and municipal facilities accepted. Preference is given to communities seeking shelter and veterinary consultations.

A collaboration of UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program, Maddie’s® Shelter Medicine Program at UF, Open Door Veterinary Collective, and Team Shelter USA.

Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge is creating transformative “communities of practice” that deliver access to care through humane, community-centric programming—inside and outside of the shelter—to achieve the right outcome for every pet. Our consultative mentoring services are holistic, deep and practical, and delivered by the proven team who brought you the Million Cat Challenge, in expanded partnership with Open Door Veterinary Collective. This program is made available at no cost to participants, #ThanksToMaddie