Is it time to take a cat’s-eye-view of shelter housing? Absolutely, says shelter medicine luminary Dr. Sandra Newbury.

“I know it certainly wasn’t this cat who thought the best idea for him would be to live in this cage,” she told attendees at her 2012 webcast, “Fixing the Feline Housing Crisis: How Shelter Housing Can Make Cats Sick – And What You Can Do About It.”

“We can think about cats and the way we know that immune systems work, and we can understand how a very fastidious cat likely doesn’t want to sit next to his litter box all day, likely doesn’t want to eat his dinner in the bathroom every day, and understand how this is probably a very, very stressful situation for this cat,” she said.

You can view Dr. Newbury’s presentation by clicking on the image above, or here.