Great question! Now is the perfect time to work on all of the activities your practice or shelter always thought would be nice but you didn’t have time for. A well-attended webinar entitled “Flattening the ...
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You may have heard some shelter medicine experts and the Alliance for Contraception in Cats and Dogs (ACC&D) promoting the use of a birth control medication called megestrol acetate (MA) to slow the tide ...
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Many shelters have successfully evacuated their animals into community homes during this pandemic; now it’s time to keep them there. The work of the animal shelter should have at its very core foster care ...
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by Erin Henry VMD, DACVPM (Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Instructor) Human to human transmission remains the most important source of infection with SARS CoV-2. Social distancing is crucial to helping flatten the curve. The most important ...
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Pathway planning has been a central principle of shelter medicine for years: animals entering the shelter have a timely plan for their humane outcome identified at that point of entry based on their initial ...
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by Wesley Cheung BVSc (2019 Cornell Shelter Medicine Intern) During these times of profound uncertainty and loneliness, pets are more important than ever. Many people have flocked to foster or adopt a lockdown companion ...
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As states have issued varied executive orders and shelter in place guidelines across the nation, shelters have been tasked with deciding what tasks are truly essential while minimizing risk to staff and volunteers. The ...
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Veterinarians and owners have had a lot of questions about approaches to heartworm disease in dogs. In some cases, dogs have been just diagnosed, or are partially through standard treatment protocols. At this time ...
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Managing the adoption of unaltered pets may seem daunting, but it doesn’t have to be! Use your shelter software program Many popular shelter software programs (i.e. PetPoint, Shelter Manager, Chameleon) have a voucher function ...
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Healthy cats and kittens are not an emergency warranting intake into your shelter. Only sick and injured animals, or animals in imminent danger, should be admitted to animal shelters at this time. Shelters should ...
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