Our focus this month is on the JFMS Special Collection about accessible veterinary care which is available for you to read using the link below.

Firstly, Nathalie Dowgray sits down with Dr Linda Jacobson, our special guest editor of the collection. We discuss how the collection came to be, the barriers preventing cats from receiving veterinary care and the work she is doing with the Toronto Humane Society to help both cats and caregivers who are struggling.

Nathalie is then joined by International Cat Care’s Head Of Unowned Cats, Vicky Halls, and they speak with Dr Gemma Ma about her paper on the characteristics of cat semi-owners and their impact in Australia.

For further reading material please visit:
https://journals.sagepub.com/topic/collections-jfm/jfm-1_accessible_veterinary_care/jfm

For ISFM members, full recordings of each episode of the podcast is available for you to listen to at portal.icatcare.org. To become an ISFM member, or find out more about our Cat Friendly schemes, visit icatcare.org

Host:
Nathalie Dowgray, BVSc, MANZCVS, PgDip, MRCVS, PhD, Head of ISFM, International Society of Feline Medicine, International Cat Care, Tisbury, Wiltshire, UK

Speakers:
Linda Jacobson, BVSc, MMedVet(Med), PhD (U Pretoria), Senior Manager of Shelter Medicine Advancement at Toronto Humane Society, President & Treasurer of the Canadian Animal Shelter and Community Medicine Association.

Vicky Halls, RVN Dip Couns, Head Of Unowned Cats for International Cat Care and published author

Gemma Ma, BVSc (USyd), PhD (USyd), Project Manager at Keeping Cats Safe at Home, Community Veterinarian at RSPCA NSW and published JFMS Author.