Here’s a new release to add to your summer-and-beyond reading list: the revised second edition of Infectious Disease Management in Animal Shelters is now out in paperback, and it’s an essential resource for every shelter. Editors Dr. Lila Miller, former ASPCA Vice President of Shelter Medicine; Dr. Stephanie Janeczko, ASPCA Vice President of Shelter Medicine; and Dr. Kate Hurley, UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program Director, have updated and expanded the first edition, published in 2009, to reflect advances in shelter medicine and best practices in preventing, managing and treating infectious diseases affecting cats, dogs and exotic small companion mammals in shelters.
In the new edition, shelter veterinarians, managers and staff will find everything they need to help maintain animal health and wellbeing and improve outcomes:
- Guidelines for general management and disease prevention and control in cats and dogs
- Shelter medicine’s core principles of humane population management in the context of supporting shelters’ goals for preserving welfare, saving lives and protecting human health
- A new chapter on exotic companion mammals
- Practical strategies that draw on the latest research and evidence-based medicine and the authors’ personal experience in the field
Though sheltering models have changed over the last twelve years, the focus on individual animal care and herd health is as foundational as ever. Successful disease management not only lowers euthanasia rates but also bolsters the very community-centered sheltering approach we are working toward. As Drs. Miller and Hurley note in their introduction, “the improved public confidence that a healthy population tends to generate can lead to greater support of the shelter, higher adoption rates, and an increased capacity to invest in programs to decrease shelter admission and keep pets healthy and safe with their families.”
Infectious Disease Management in Animal Shelters, 2nd edition, is available to order online. Read the full introduction below.
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