BOOKS: Shelter Medicine for Veterinarians & Staff & WorldAnimalNet International Directory of Animal Protection Organizations

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2004:

Shelter Medicine for Veterinarians & Staff
Edited by Lila Miller & Stephen Zawistowski
Blackwell Pub. (2121 State Ave., Ames, IA 50014), 2004. 546
pages, paperback. $74.95.

WorldAnimalNet International Directory of Animal Protection Organizations
Edited by Wim DeKok
WorldAnimalNet (19 Chestnut Sq., Boston, MA 02130), 2004. 554
pages, paperback. $29.95.

Shelter Medicine for Veterinarians & Staff and the
WorldAnimalNet International Directory of Animal Protection
Organizations are references so useful and so essential that, like
the National Animal Control Association Training Guide, they belong
on the most convenient shelf of every animal shelter library–and if
your shelter does not have a library, nail up a shelf and start one
with these three books.
Assembled by American SPCA senior director of animal services
and veterinary advisor Lila Miller and senior vice president and
science advisor Stephen Zawistowski, Shelter Medicine for
Veterinarians & Staff is the closest approach yet to an encyclopedia
of veterinary issues encountered in humane work.

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Chicago Anti-Cruelty Society will no longer keep dogs & cats during animal control holding period

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2004:

CHICAGO, NEW YORK CITY–Chicago Anti-Cruelty Society
president Gene Mueller, DVM, in early July 2004 announced that
starting in November the Anti-Cruelty Society will no longer house
stray or feral animals brought by the public during the five-day
holding period when they can neither be adopted or killed.
Those animals will instead be redirected to the Chicago
Animal Care & Control Department. Owner-surrendered pets will still
be accepted, since they can be offered for rehoming right away.
“In exchange,” reported Claire Loebs Davis of Best Friends
Online, “the Anti-Cruelty Society plans to substantially increase
the number of legally adoptable animals it transfers out of animal
control to its facility, and to direct more resources toward its
spay/neuter, feral cat, and anti-dogfighting programs. “
The Anti-Cruelty Society already operates one of the dozen
most active nonprofit sterilization clinics in the world, handling
12,000 dogs and cats in 2003.
“The Anti-Cruelty Society also plans to construct the
Bruckner Animal Rehabilitation Center,” wrote Davis, “which will
feature over 100 spaces for long-term rehabilitation of animals with
treatable illnesses and behavior problems, as well as kittens and
puppies too young to adopt.

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