Animal shelter employees and volunteers experience feelings of emotional burnout in their work — so much so that many of them consider quitting.

Do you want to start a neuter-return program to help community cats in your town, but aren’t sure how to begin?

When animal shelters see bloody diarrhea in a young, stressed, or immune-compromised dog or cat, coccidiosis is one of the first conditions that springs to mind. But not all bloody diarrhea is caused by the Coccidia organism, and not all pets with the parasite show blood in their stool.

What if there was a drug that was effective, safe and easy to adminster that would treat both feline infectious peritonitis (FIPV) and the virulent form of feline calicivirus (vs-FCV)?

If you want your supporters to help your animal organization, you need to stop talking so much.

Many animal shelters aren’t using the right methods and techniques to scan pets for microchips, missing out on an opportunity to get that pet back home.

As the number of animal shelters take on the challenge of saving orphaned kittens grows, so does interest in new and more effective techniques for preventing and treating their common health problems.

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

Are you counting on your employees’ and volunteers’ commitment to helping animals to keep them engaged on the job? You might want to count again.