(CROSSPOSTED FROM CAT CHAT)
FOR ALL UK RESCUE AND REHOMING GROUPS & SHELTERS Important Survey for Rescues Coming Your Way – the Postal Un-Owned Pets Survey (PUPS)
Please Help by Completing yours! Cat Chat is pleased to be helping to publicise an important survey project being carried out by the University of Nottingham’s School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, focusing on the un-owned pet population in this country. For the survey to be most effective, they need as many rescues, shelters, fosterers and rehoming organisations to take part as possible.
Surveys are being posted out now to rescues across the country, and yours should be with you by the end of March. Please Complete and Return Yours! (please note this is a survey for Rescues to complete, not the general public).
If your rescue has not received a copy of the questionnaire by April 1st, please email jenny.stavisky@nottingham.ac.uk and ask for it to be re-sent.
Alternatively, you can download a copy here
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cevm/sheltermedicine/sheltermedicine.aspx An outline of the project:
Census of un-owned dogs and cats
While much veterinary research is concentrated on pets, we know relatively little about the populations of animals that live in shelters and sanctuaries and are rescued or fostered each year in the UK.
At the Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine at the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science (University of Nottingham), a new project has been set up. It is the first such study to focus specifically on the needs and problems of these animals in the UK. One of the first questions to be asked is, simply, how many are there? Currently there is relatively little information about the many shelter and rescue organisations, how many animals they care for, and what happens to those animals.
As a first step, we are carrying out a census of every such organisation we can identify. This data will then be used to help us to understand the needs of these animals, and the people caring for them. If your organisation carries out rescue work of any kind, you should receive a questionnaire before the end of March. Please fill it in!
The more people who participate, the more accurate and useful the data collected will be. All individual information will be treated in the strictest confidence.
If you would like more information, please visit our website
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cevm/sheltermedicine/sheltermedicine.aspx , or email jenny.stavisky@nottingham.ac.uk
PLEASE NOTE: This survey is NOT being carried out by Cat Chat, so if you don’t receive your survey by 1st April, please don’t ask us, instead you can get one as follows:
If you have not received a copy of the questionnaire by April 1st, please email jenny.stavisky@nottingham.ac.uk and ask for it to be re-sent.
Alternatively, you can download a copy here
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cevm/sheltermedicine/sheltermedicine.aspx 
