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Key Elements for Successful Communal Cat Rooms

The success of a group cat room is directly tied to stress control.

Communal Cat Rooms

Learn how to create a properly designed, equipped and managed communal cat room. The result: happier, healthier felines—which can mean more adoptions.

Daily Monitoring of Communal Cat Rooms

Daily monitoring is essential because it helps you focus on the compatibility of cats in the group and make adjustments for the cats' welfare.

Outfitting and Enriching Communal Cat Rooms

A group room affords cats a sense of control over their environment, thus eliminating a major source of stress for sheltered cats.

Selecting Healthy, Compatible Cats for Communal Rooms

Along with healthy cats, a successful communal group requires compatible (or, at least, not incompatible) cats. Here's how to find them.

Sanitation for Group Cat Rooms

Proper cleaning and disinfection is critical to shelter disease control and should occur on a regular basis in group cat rooms.

10 Tips to Make the Most of Real-Life Rooms

After a remodel of its real-life room, the ASPCA shares 10 tips for décor and design.

They Did It: Built the Capacity of Their Emergency Response Team

The San Diego Humane Society built the capacity of its Emergency Response Team to respond to animals in crisis resulting from natural disasters.

Community Cat Room Poster Alerts Visitors to Special Residents

This helpful poster explains to visitors why some cats are separated from other animals and why they can’t be visited.

How Shelter Pets Benefit from “Real-Life” Rooms

Three animal welfare organizations with real-life rooms--where adoptable pets can relax and decompress--share the benefits, challenges, and recommendations for such spaces.