Published: Jun 14th, 2019
It makes sense to most people that shelter medicine will improve animal health and welfare. But it also drives adoptions, improves relationships with local veterinarians, and boosts the image of […]
Published: Jun 5th, 2019
Maddie’s® Shelter Medicine Program is once again offering its Compassion Fatigue Strategies online course with certified compassion fatigue educator Jessica Dolce.
Published: May 30th, 2019
One shelter operations manager wanted to challenge her team’s attitude toward adopters.
Published: May 22nd, 2019
In many shelters, distemper in any dog leads to euthanasia of every dog in the shelter, in the name of protecting dogs in the community from the disease.
Published: May 15th, 2019
With an increase in international dog transport has come an increased risk of infectious disease.
Published: May 8th, 2019
Once a shelter medicine student at UF, Dr. Angele Bice is now helping homeless pets in her community, and teaching the skills she learned to other veterinarians so they can, too.
Published: May 2nd, 2019
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel recently raised an alarm about animal shelters that’s echoing around the country: a shortage of shelter veterinarians.
Published: Apr 23rd, 2019
What story does data tell us about what’s happened for Florida’s shelter animals since 2013? A pretty inspiring one!
Published: Apr 10th, 2019
Our internship program has been expanded to include an additional position beginning in June.
Published: Apr 4th, 2019
Fear Free is a training and certification program for animal professionals that puts the emotional and physical well being of animals on an equal footing.