Shelter and Public Safety During COVID-19

Cindi Delany, DVM

Shelter Veterinarian and ShelterMedPortal Webmaster - UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program Executive Director – California Animal Shelter Friends, Inc. Woodland, California Dr. Delany graduated from UCLA with a degree in Business/Economics and from UC Davis with her DVM in 2000. She has worked as an animal shelter, high volume spay/neuter and emergency veterinarian for the past 20 years. She worked for the UC Davis Shelter Medicine Program initially based out of the Sacramento County shelter and then based out of Yolo County Animal Services (YCAS) for 8 years. At YCAS she implemented many lifesaving programs to help increase their live release rate from 50% to over 90%. In addition to her work at YCAS, Dr. Delany has helped other shelters with population management, implementing new life-saving programs, shelter software use, data analysis, reporting, and statistics. She also runs a private, non-profit rescue group that rescues sick, injured and newborn animals. Dr. Delany enjoys training and competing with her dogs in agility and other dog sports. She is also Karen Pryor Academy Certified Animal Trainer and an advocate of positive reinforcement-based training of all animals and uses these techniques successfully with her own dogs, cats, draft horse, miniature donkeys, and Bactrian camels.

6 Courses