Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
This session for animal welfare professionals explores how better data-keeping for pre-adoption age kittens can drive lifesaving outcomes. Hannah shares fascinating national insights about kittens in shelters, uncovers the challenges and opportunities of tracking kittens, and offers practical strategies to improve how we record, understand, and act on kitten-focused data. Special thanks to Shelter Animals Count and Hill's Pet Nutrition! Learn more and find up-to-date statistics at kittenlady.org/data
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
3:56 Why care about kitten data?
7:16 The history of data-keeping in shelters
11:29 Data-keeping in shelters today
14:50 Kitten intake by month and region
19:27 Benefits to tracking 0-8 week old intake
22:46 Intake by age and species
23:46 Intake type: where do kittens come from?
28:55 Queens & kittens vs. bottle babies
30:20 Kitten outcomes
32:43 Transfers and kittens
33:53 Non-live outcomes and kittens
36:05 How we report outcomes matters
44:13 Unassisted death
48:49 Mortality rates by age group
53:09 Positive outcomes are possible
55:31 Tips for data-keeping and data use
This session for animal welfare professionals explores how better data-keeping for pre-adoption age kittens can drive lifesaving outcomes. Hannah shares fascinating national insights about kittens in shelters, uncovers the challenges and opportunities of tracking kittens, and offers practical strategies to improve how we record, understand, and act on kitten-focused data. Special thanks to Shelter Animals Count and Hill's Pet Nutrition! Learn more and find up-to-date statistics at kittenlady.org/data
Check out my instructional videos here: bit.ly/2qwudwX
Follow Kitten Lady on social media!
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/kittenxlady
INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/kittenxlady
Shop for Kitten Lady gear: kittenlady.bigcartel.com
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
3:56 Why care about kitten data?
7:16 The history of data-keeping in shelters
11:29 Data-keeping in shelters today
14:50 Kitten intake by month and region
19:27 Benefits to tracking 0-8 week old intake
22:46 Intake by age and species
23:46 Intake type: where do kittens come from?
28:55 Queens & kittens vs. bottle babies
30:20 Kitten outcomes
32:43 Transfers and kittens
33:53 Non-live outcomes and kittens
36:05 How we report outcomes matters
44:13 Unassisted death
48:49 Mortality rates by age group
53:09 Positive outcomes are possible
55:31 Tips for data-keeping and data use
