Book Details
Orange Code:94548
Paperback:386 pages
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Sections:
1. What is shelter medicine?2. Ethics and animal welfare3. Pragmatic decision-making in the charity situation4. Concepts in free-roaming population control5. Practical management of free-roaming populations6. Optimizing neutering programmes7. Shelter metrics8. Principles of infectious disease and transmission9. Biosecurity in shelters10. Shelter design and flow of animals through a shelter11. Preventive medicine in the shelter environment12. Diarrhoea in the dog in the shelter environment13. Diarrhoea in the cat in the shelter environment14. Respiratory disease in the dog in the shelter environment15. Respiratory disease in the cat in the shelter environment16. Skin diseases in shelter animals17. Managing feline immunodeficiency virus and feline leukaemia virus in the multi-cat/shelter environment18. Managing feline coronavirus and feline infectious peritonitis in the multi-cat/shelter environment19. Behaviour and stress management in the shelter environment20. Charities, their policies and staff21. Law and shelter medicine22. The shelter veterinary team23. Working with the non-veterinary shelter team24. Training and education in the shelter environment
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This brand new manual provides a practical guide on how to deal with various clinical situations that arise when working with cats and dogs in a shelter environment. The first part of the manual describes the principles of shelter medicine and population health. The second part covers the prevention, management and control of disease in a shelter environment. The final part provides information on working with people in the shelter environment.
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