We offer a range of services including: Outreach and Support: Whether you’re contemplating change, launching a new program, or struggling through hard times, our collaborative coaching for shelters can help you find the best strategy for you and navigate the sometimes bumpy road to smoother processes and better outcomes. Facility Design: Our facility design experts … Continue reading “Services & Programs”

Our priority at the Koret Shelter Medicine Program at UC Davis is to bring experience and a scientific perspective to shelter animal care. We encourage everyone to search through our reference library. Simply enter the search term to see all resources available for managing some of the most common issues in animal shelters. You can … Continue reading “Resources & Training”

Many animals enter shelters in poor health, malnourished, stressed and with no history of vaccination. Some animals will already be shedding various harmful pathogens, with or without showing any signs of disease. With all this disease around and so many opportunities for transmission, one might think that ubiquitous disease spread is nearly inevitable. However, there … Continue reading “Shelter Health Resources”

The Koret Shelter Medicine Program at the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine advances shelter medicine as a veterinary specialty through research, specialty training and education, and performance of veterinary services in animal shelters: and helps to  improve the quality of life of animals in shelters through improvements in veterinary medicine and management … Continue reading “Terms Of Use”

We all know COVID-19 has turned our world upside down, and somehow we have both not enough information and too much. In order to get the best information to you in the most accessible form, we’re creating COVID related online mini-courses in a super-efficient, bottom-line, what you need to know format. Each course also has … Continue reading “Introducing ShelterMedPortal”