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Shelter Medicine

Find a spectrum of shelter medicine topics essential for ensuring the well-being of animals, from best practices in health care, disease prevention, and treatment to sanitation standards and facility design.

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.

Animal Shelter and Community Medicine Journals for Publication

Learn about the Journal of Shelter Medicine and Community Animal Health, the only journal focused on shelter and community medicine practice.

ASPCA Shelter Medicine Services Team

Meet the ASPCA Shelter Medicine Services team!

Animal Shelter Pathway Planning

Pathway planning is an important process to maintain the shelter population within its capacity for humane care and support the welfare of the animals in our care.

Shelter Behavior Roundtable: Tracking Behavioral Observations in Shelter Animals

Enhance your organization’s methods for collecting and utilizing behavioral observations in shelter animals.

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.

Enrichment for Shelter Dogs

Kelley Bollen explains how shelter dogs will benefit from behavioral and environmental enrichment.

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.