The City of Austin, Tex., went from a 50 percent save rate to saving over 90 percent of the community’s homeless dogs and cats in just two and a half years. How did they do it?
Animal sheltering can be a dirty business, and staff and volunteers aren’t always clear on how to keep shelter animals healthy by understanding and applying principles for cleaning and disinfection.
A Boston shelter veterinarian wants to make one thing perfectly clear: Falling in love with and adopting a cat who has FIV can be a story with a happy ending.
Ever wish you had a road map to saving more lives in your shelter? Gathering and understanding data will provide you with exactly that.
How prepared are animal shelters for fighting infectious disease and protecting the health of the pets in their care?
An inexpensive, easily available local anesthetic has been shown to provide good pain relief for female dogs after spay surgery.
Ringworm. An outbreak – even one suspected case – can cause a corresponding outbreak of despair in shelter staff. How will they handle it? Can they disinfect the shelter? Can the cats
or kittens be treated, or is it too risky? What about the impact on adoptions and the foster care program?
An inexpensive, easily available local anesthetic has been shown to provide good pain relief for female dogs after spay surgery.
Surprisingly, the study revealed that most infections were not associated with diarrhea or any specific risk factors, including observed symptoms or the source of the pet.
Shelters hoping to protect cats from the many pathogens that can lead to symptoms of feline URI should take note of a recent study that showed intranasal vaccines for feline herpesvirus (FHV) and calicivirus (FCV) protect against illness from other pathogens, too.