Animal Shelters

Growing threat to cats from avian influenza — Online sessions to help conquer the challenges of kitten season — 2024 national shelter data

Happy holidays! — UF Shelter Medicine interns making a difference — Study on well-being of animal shelter staff

Post-adoption support webinar — Saving dogs — HQHVSN training is back — Support spay-neuter

Shelter medicine students making a difference — Strategies for cat adoptions — Shelter medicine is global!

The call to action is this: we must recognize our nation’s animal shelters are in crisis.

While many shelters and clinics never completely closed during the strictest phases of COVID precautions, they're all facing the challenge of relaxing those restrictions while the virus is still spreading.

Saving the lives of 1 million cats in North American animal shelters over five years may be an audacious goal, but the Million Cat Challenge is halfway there.

In a University of Florida study conducted at four different animal shelters and published in November 2015, researchers identified significant inaccuracies in dog identification.