community. Our good relationship with the city allows us to operate programs such as this, but we also carefully monitor the results and impacts on shelter admissions and deaths. The Feral Freedom program resulted in a huge decrease in feline shelter deaths. Working with animal services, we continually analyze the shelter statistics to assist in making changes to existing programs or designing and implementing new programs. Once 4000+ fewer cats were dying in the shelter, it became obvious that the next largest group of feline shelter deaths were neo-natal kittens that could be adopted but just needed to get a little older and stay healthy until they were old enough for adoption. This realization brought about a cooperative effort by the three largest animal welfare shareholders to increase foster home capacity and to open a neo-natal kitten nursery where underage kittens admitted to the shelter could be transferred to keep them healthy until they were old enough for adoption. This initiative was too large for any one of our organizations, so it has been taken on as a cooperative effort between Jacksonville Animal Care and Protective Services, Jacksonville Humane Society, and FCNMHP. Without continued good relationships between these three organizations, a project like this would not be possible. Good positive relationships lead to opportunities, which lead to lives saved. Good relationships help to open doors to all kinds of access and influence you might not have otherwise. If you invest your time in building a relationship with the animal control