Animal shelters struggling with canine respiratory disease in their dogs can get valuable information about both treatment and prevention from available diagnostic tests.

If you couldn’t make it to Jacksonville for the 2013 University of Florida Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program Conference last October, don’t worry! Maddie’s Institute was there to record all the shelter medicine sessions, as well as the day-long Face to Face with Feral Freedom program.

If you weren’t able to make the Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell University two-day conference earlier this year, Maddie’s InstituteSM is bringing it to you online.

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?