Animal Shelter

A year of COVID, innovation, collaboration, and inspiration.

Here's what we found in our most recent survey of Florida animal shelters.

Going directly from their current home to their new home is the best outcome for pets.

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Unlocking Humane Solutions to Animal Welfare Problems Our experienced faculty members explore the big issues for Shelter Medicine. Study ideas almost always arise as problems animal welfare workers are encountering in the field. We also rely on these shelter partners as priceless sources of data from the frontlines and appreciate…

Faculty and students from the Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine conducted a national survey of dog experts to compare their best guesses for the breeds of dogs in a series of photographs. These visual assessments were compared to DNA breed profiles for each…

Florida’s animal shelters collectively pushed dog and cat lifesaving to a new milestone in 2019.