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Disease surveillance in shelters today is predominantly active (not passive or sentinel) surveillance. That is, medical personnel have protocols to actively identify common infectious diseases, report them internally and ensure that affected animals receive appropriate care as soon as possible. In the future, once individual shelters enhance their disease surveillance by using their data more extensively, reporting across communities, regions and at the national level becomes possible. Shelter Animals Count is a collaborative initiative of sheltering organizations that currently focuses on the national collection of basic animal entry and outcome data, but it could expand its data collection to include disease‐related and other data in the future (http://shelteranimalscount.org). Such data could lead to surveillance efforts at regional and national levels, similar to those of CDC and APHIS; this would enhance understanding of regional variations in disease incidence and enhance disease management.