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Shelter Medicine Consults and Support for Animal Shelters

Contact the ASPCA Shelter Medicine Services team for help with questions ranging from parvovirus to sanitation to population management.

Shelter Medicine and the ASPCA

Learn all about shelter medicine, which focuses on preventing disease so the end product is a healthy companion animal in a lifetime home.

Northern Tier Shelter Initiative Zoomies: An Introduction to Shelter Medicine 

This webinar will share best practices for the standard of care in shelters and available resources and tools for shelter medicine.

Shelter Sanitation: Part 1

Join us for a review of the risk factors that contribute to infectious disease transmission and learn about common disinfectants.

Shelter Sanitation: Part 2

Join us for a review of the what, when and how components of effective shelter sanitation.

Shelter Intake: Part 1

Learn how to maximize lifesaving capacity through intake procedures that address animals’ physical and behavioral health.

Shelter Intake: Part 2

Learn about the basic foundation of sheltering intake protocols that will minimize the risk of disease.

Infection Control in the Shelter

Learn fundamental infection control concepts, including order of contagion, how disease transmission occurs, and how to prevent disease spread.

ASV Guidelines & Shelter Checklists

These easy-to-use checklists, based on the comprehensive Guidelines for Standards of Care in Animal Shelters, can help you provide optimum care in the shelter.

Vaccination in Shelter Animal Populations

Check out these vaccination protocols for shelter animals, including frequency standards and how to vaccinate special populations.