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Shelter medicine has improved the care of shelter animals dramatically over the past two decades. Veterinarians can now find full‐ and part‐time job opportunities in animal shelters, and veterinarians with a background and training in shelter medicine can bring specific knowledge as well as an arsenal of tools to improve animal health and welfare in animal welfare organizations. Monitoring disease‐related metrics is an additional tool that will enhance the care of shelter populations, as it has for human and livestock populations. For this to occur, veterinarians must embrace the importance of data, enhance their skills at their interpretation, and insist that software companies facilitate the entry, retrieval and visualization of relevant data.