Cats who are pregnant or nursing a litter don’t increase the amount of carbohydrate in their diet by choice. Instead, the additional calories they select come from fat.

In an effort to save all the injured and sick animals at the city shelter, Austin Pets Alive! (APA) developed a program for parvovirus treatment and a protocol for distemper treatment. As a result, save rates for these diseases approach an impressive 85 percent. In a session presented at the 2012 Maddie's® Shelter Medicine Conference… Learn More

Most shelters have some kind of treatment protocol in place to treat signs of coughing and mild respiratory disease in their dogs. How do they know when they’re dealing with something else?

Just a few simple changes in how you process animals on intake can help keep animals healthy from the moment they enter the shelter until they head home to their adoptive families.

Are cats sheltered differently in England than in the U.S.? Maddie’s Institute put that question to Dr. Annette Litster, director of the Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Purdue University, and Dr. Rachel Dean, Director of the Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine in England.

The most commonly used solution used to disinfect surfaces and the environment is a dilute solution of bleach. Are ready-to-use products labeled as fungicidal equally good at controlling Microsporum or Trichophyton spores isolated from cat hair?

What kind of training does your shelter provide for the caregivers responsible for orphaned kittens?

Growing numbers of scientific publishers are making their articles and publications available online for free. Others will allow you to read an article for a short period, usually 24 hours for around $3.

There's an emerging disease sickening and killing dogs in Ohio, and a lot of veterinarians, animal shelters, rescue groups and people with dogs are both confused and scared. What's going on? What causes the disease? As of today, the cause of the disease is not known. A pathogen called circovirus, originally identified in California in… Learn More

Getting more pets into homes with training, behavior modification, social media, and adoption program innovation will be the focus of the Maddie’s® Shelter Medicine Program track at the Purdue Veterinary Medicine 2013 Fall Conference.