2021 Shelter Data: Florida Animal Shelters Struggle to Maintain Lifesaving Gains Amid COVID Challenges
Shelter admissions of free-roaming animals and former pets surged across Florida in 2021.
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Let’s hear it for the Shelter Medicine Grads of 2022!
Congratulations to all 34 amazing shelter medicine students at Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida!
Award-winning veterinary students head out to serve animals and communities
Meet two graduating students of the UF College of Veterinary Medicine class of 2022.
UF veterinary students gain shelter medicine skills through clerkship
Thanks to a collaboration between the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine and Alachua County, students at the college have gained an opportunity for hands-on learning in the field of shelter medicine and the college has enhanced the offerings of its shelter program to better serve the local community.
UF shelter medicine interns lead with their hearts to help people and pets
While in the Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program, interns work with shelter medicine faculty on campus.
Beyond Data: A Look at our Nation’s Shelter Crisis
The call to action is this: we must recognize our nation’s animal shelters are in crisis.
New guidelines for dogs and cats exposed to COVID-19
After reviewing the published literature and field experience, the Shelter Medicine Academic Consortium has issued new guidelines recommending elimination of quarantines for animals exposed to COVID.
Times are tough for shelter dogs. We can help.
Shelters are struggling with medium and large dogs. Everybody is asking, “What do we do?”
Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge Awarded $7.4 Million Grant to Keep Pets and People Together
The grant will help revolutionize the status and well-being of companion animals.
Ending an old year, starting the new
The animal welfare community is still dealing with challenges as another year comes to end.
