All dog lovers will recognize the “stretch and shake” — the long stretch, followed by an invigorating whole-body shake most dogs give when they get up from rest. But did you know changes in that behavior, or its absence, are a vital clue that a dog is in pain?
If you’re a veterinary professional looking for RACE continuing education credits, and are interested in titer tests, Maddie’s Institute has you covered — but not for long!
Shelters seeking to prevent behavior-related surrenders of dogs may want to focus on teaching owners positive training methods, suggests a study published in the journal Applied Animal Behavior Science.
More than 160 communities across the country are achieving no-kill in their shelters and animal control agencies. Although those communities represent a wide spectrum including urban, rural, affluent, struggling, large and small, they do have one thing in common: a set of proven methods for saving all their healthy and treatable pets. What are those… Learn More
Want to increase spay/neuter, microchipping, training, and vaccination rates in your community’s pets? Success depends not on combatting “irresponsible pet ownership,” but providing services to low-income families.
Everyone’s been talking about the two-part webcast series challenging what we thought we knew about cats and shelters. If you missed the live events, or want to experience them again or share them with your friends and colleagues — now you can!
Have trouble making it to all the shelter medicine conferences you’d like to attend? That’s okay; the Maddie’s camera crew has combed the conference circuit for you.
Alley Cat Allies, one of the nation’s leading advocates for community cats, is enlisting the support of veterinarians for trap-neuter-return programs.
You can talk, write, email, lecture and explain until you’re blue in the face, but communicating the most effective ways for shelter staff to interact with colleagues and the public calls for a little drama.
Have you been hearing rumblings about a new approach to cats and shelters? Are you trying to figure out if it’s the best or worst thing to ever happen to cats? Or are you already sure it’s a terrible idea?