The link between stress and disease in cats is well-established, and it’s hard to imagine a more stressful environment for a cat than an animal shelter. Researchers at the Koret Shelter Medicine Program found that stress-induced loss of appetite and weight may provide an early warning sign for impending URI in shelter cats.

It’s a feline housing revolution — and it’s helping stop outbreaks of upper respiratory infections in their tracks!

Urinating and defecating outside of the litter box is the most common behavior problem seen in cats. What can be done to help owners of cats with elimination disorders before those cats end up in the shelter?

The Association of Shelter Veterinarians lists feline upper respiratory conditions as the number one health issue in shelters. Find out how outbreaks can be prevented, or once started, stopped, in this free webcast!

Cats don’t come with a real decoder ring, but feline behavior assessments, designed and applied appropriately, will help unscramble some of that secret code―the essence of the cat! They are an important tool for gathering information about an individual cat’s behavior, designing a plan for her, and revising and evaluating the process as she adapts and responds to her new environment.

Think you can’t afford to treat the behavior problems of dogs and cats in your shelter? Think it’s too difficult and time-consuming? Think you don’t have the staff or the space to work with these kinds of issues? Think again!

The owners of most newly-adopted shelter dogs and cats report their pets are doing “extremely well” in their new homes, despite a high incidence of respiratory illness in the first week post-adoption.

If you’d like to learn how animal shelters are beating ringworm, and how your organization can do it, too, please join us for our upcoming free webcast on Thursday, July 12, 2012, at 9 PM ET.