Cats

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

Declining adoption trends - Doggy day outs - Optimal cat petting sessions - Return to owner - Trap-neuter-return - Community cats - Spay/neuter research - Grants

Shelter Medicine Certificate graduates - Veterinarian Shortage - Free Job Board - Emergency Response - Community Cats - Shelter Medicine Conference - Job-Alikes - Grants

Community Cat Course - ASV Guidelines Conference - RTO - Shelter Medicine Conference - Job-Alikes - Telemedicine - Access to Care - Kitten Behavior - HQJVSN - Grants

Community Cat Summer Fellowship - Shelter Medicine courses - Scaling up Return-to-Field - Grants for Animal Welfare - Long-Stay Dogs - Connect with Peers in Job Alikes

Dezubiria P, Amirian ES, Spera K, Crawford PC and Levy JK. Animal shelter management of feline leukemia virus and feline immunodeficiency virus infections in cats.  Front. Vet. Sci. 2023 9:1003388. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2022.1003388…

Animal shelter management of feline leukemia… Published on January 25, 2023 Dezubiria P, Amirian ES, Spera K, Crawford PC and Levy JK. Animal shelter management of feline leukemia virus and feline immunodeficiency virus……

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

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.

It’s been the holy grail of animal welfare for decades now.