Shelter Medicine
Shelter Medicine is a young field of veterinary medicine caring for unwanted or underserved animals. Shelter medicine champions in providing a guide on how to deal with situations that arise in a shelter environment. The main goal is to improve the lives of animals in shelters and homeless animals by focussing on their health and well-being.
Animals in Need
From time to time animals can find themselves in life-threatening situations and we want to be able to be there for them. Research has repeatedly proven that animals can feel pain and they can suffer just like each and every one of us. Animals deserve to be treated with respect because they are independent sentient beings.
Community work
We help animals in need, enhance animal welfare standards through education and build a better future through community outreach. With continuous effort and sufficient support we can improve the lives of many animals and alleviate or prevent their suffering. That is why we persist in taking fundamental steps to highlight the importance of educating communities about animal welfare.
Projects
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21
Oct
2019
International work
In 2019 we travelled all the way to India and volunteered at the animal shelter ‘Peepal Farm’ for two weeks. We also visited two other well known charities, Dharamsala Animal Rescue and Sanjay Gandhi Animal Hospital in New Delhi. During this trip we experienced various difficulties in caring for homeless and injured animals on the streets of India. Offering helping hands means a lot to charities all over the world. Read more about our adventures in India in our blog.
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27
Aug
2022
ABC-project
In August 2022 we organised our first Animal Birth Control project in the Netherlands. This kind of project reduces the expensive veterinary bills for the animal shelters without reducing the quality of care. With a team of voluntary veterinarians and veterinary nurses we neutered 40 cats from 3 different local shelters in 1 day. We also vaccinated and microchipped those cats that needed it. It was a successful day as all the cats recovered well from the procedures and were sent back to the shelters ready to be adopted.
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21
Mar
2023
FIV/FeLV-Screening Program
In 2023 we started a new program called the FIV/FeLV screening program in Belgium. In collaboration with the college ‘Thomas More’ we aim to collect as much data available to us and analyse the results in order to highlight the current situation of FIV/FeLV infected cats. With this Shelter Medicine program we focus on supporting the shelters by providing evidence based advice, but we also intend to set-up useful protocols to reduce cross-contamination within the sheltered environment. The results of our work and the advice for the shelters will be available to all organisations internationally.
