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  • Webinar – 4/23 – COVID-19 Impact Across the Country on Shelters – Best Friends

    Webinar – 4/23 – COVID-19 Impact Across the Country on Shelters – Best Friends

    Representing partner organizations from several regions, shelter leaders discuss their challenges and triumphs, and what they hope changes about animal welfare moving forward. This special COVID-19 Town Hall brings local insight to shelters and rescue groups along with the opportunity to learn how different regions are navigating the COVID-19 crisis.

    Each week, we’ve been taking input from attendees and applying it to the next town hall. New this week: submit your questions in advance in the Questions & Comments box on the registration form.

    Panelists for this week’s town hall are:

    • Denise Deisler, director of Jacksonville Humane Society in Florida (Southeast)
    • Ed Jamison, director of Dallas Animal Services in Texas (South Central)
    • Emily Klehm, director of South Suburban Humane Society in Illinois (Midwest)
    • Alexis Pugh, director of Memphis Animal Services in Tennessee (Mid-Atlantic)
    • Teri Rockhold, director of Fresno Humane Animal Services in California (Pacific)
    • Shannon Wells, director of Lawrence Humane Society in Kansas (Great Plains)

    Best Friends medical director Dr. Erin Katribe will also be joining to discuss the most recent update on CDC guidelines. A recording will be available and distributed to registrants.

  • Webinar – 4/29/20 – RAVS Informational Session: Tips and Tricks From the Field: Case Management Strategies When Plan ‘A’ Isn’t an Option – RAVS

    Webinar – 4/29/20 – RAVS Informational Session: Tips and Tricks From the Field: Case Management Strategies When Plan ‘A’ Isn’t an Option – RAVS

    Every veterinary professional encounters cases where resource limitations prevent ‘Plan A’ level medicine. Join RAVS veterinarians Lauren Kloer and Ahne Simonsen and RAVS veterinary nurse Anne Marie McPartlin as they discuss patient care in the field setting and how field-based decision making approaches can be utilized to aid in the care of your patients at home. When gold-standard medicine is not an option, practicing incremental care combined with creative problem solving can lead to high quality minimum standard care opportunities for your patients. These approaches to case management respect the economic limitations of your clients who love their animal family members while maintaining an emphasis on patient welfare.

    https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Bl26xPYrT9yb1t0ny8UeRg

  • Advice Hour – Maddie’s Lifesaving Academy – Maddie’s Fund

    Advice Hour – Maddie’s Lifesaving Academy – Maddie’s Fund

    Advice Hour with MLA instructors
    Every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month the Maddie’s Lifesaving Academy Instructors will be available for live shelter advising. Our instructors are experts in the field with over 50 years of combined shelter leadership. Have doubts, questions, or just need to talk through ideas? Join us, for these live counseling sessions. You can pop in for 5 minutes to ask one question, or stay for the whole event. We are here to support your brave, lifesaving efforts. We got y’all.
    Our instructors will rotate and while each has their own individualized specialties, we work very closely as a team. Each instructor has worked in shelter leadership and over the last two years taught and advised hundreds of shelters to increase lifesaving, using sustainable, realistic methods.
  • Advice Hour – 5/8/20 – Maddie’s Lifesaving Academy – Maddie’s Fund

    Advice Hour – 5/8/20 – Maddie’s Lifesaving Academy – Maddie’s Fund

    Special Edition May 8 with Gateway Pet Guardians*** — Do you have questions about community support and programming as we move toward the new normal of animal sheltering? Gateway Pet Guardians leadership will spend 10 minutes showcasing their programming and will be available for 50 minutes to answer any and all questions about programs to keep pets with people and out of the sheltering system.

    Sign up for May 8th here:  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcuceytqTkpE9Tko-bswsEh6UL2IX7PXvNd?fbclid=IwAR2wEDkartPHVh4bXFatrQjXDHW7hOnJCeGyxeJiVNNMJeWvf_9MfkOfLJU

    Advice Hour with MLA instructors

    Every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month the Maddie’s Lifesaving Academy Instructors will be available for live shelter advising. Our instructors are experts in the field with over 50 years of combined shelter leadership. Have doubts, questions, or just need to talk through ideas? Join us, for these live counseling sessions. You can pop in for 5 minutes to ask one question, or stay for the whole event. We are here to support your brave, lifesaving efforts. We got y’all.

    Our instructors will rotate and while each has their own individualized specialties, we work very closely as a team. Each instructor has worked in shelter leadership and over the last two years taught and advised hundreds of shelters to increase lifesaving, using sustainable, realistic methods.

    https://www.facebook.com/events/american-pets-alive/advice-hour-with-maddies-lifesaving-academy-instructors/653080052156897/

  • Webinar – 4/28/20 – Now You’re Here, Now You’re Not: Preparing Your Pet for Yet Another Change – Fear Free – Ceva

    Webinar – 4/28/20 – Now You’re Here, Now You’re Not: Preparing Your Pet for Yet Another Change – Fear Free – Ceva

    Now You’re Here, Now You’re Not: Preparing Your Pet for Yet Another Change

    First our pets had to get used to their humans being around more than usual as people sheltered in place. For many pets, this was a positive change, but even positive changes can be stressful. They’ll face upheaval again when pandemic precautions relax and people go back to their normal routines. In this webinar, Valarie V. Tynes, DVM, DACVB, DACAW, will help you determine which patients may be at an elevated risk of increased anxiety and stress due to changes in routine, and offer practical, straightforward tips that you can share with your clients for preparing these pets for a return to “normal.”

    Sponsored by Ceva.

  • Webinar – 4/30/20 – Frustrated Foster Families? Provide Animal Behavior Help to Caregivers During COVID-19 – ASPCAPro

    Webinar – 4/30/20 – Frustrated Foster Families? Provide Animal Behavior Help to Caregivers During COVID-19 – ASPCAPro

    Fostering animals during the COVID-19 pandemic can benefit both your shelter and your foster families. More and more people are stepping up to help their local shelters, and we want these valuable volunteers to have good experiences. However, we’re sending a wider variety of dogs and cats into foster homes than ever before, including animals with some behavioral challenges. Join animal behaviorist Pamela Reid and feline behavior specialist Marny Nofi for a webinar focused on supporting foster families in helping these animals adjust.

    Questions are welcome throughout this live Q&A session.

    Takeaways

    • Helping fearful dogs and cats to settle in at their temporary home
    • Discouraging unwanted behaviors in dogs
    • Conveying expectations to caregivers fostering an animal who was not able to be spayed or neutered before leaving the shelter

    Suited For

    Shelter employees and volunteers

    PRESENTERS:
    Pamela Reid, PhD, CAAB Vice President, ASPCA Behavioral Sciences
    Marny Nofi, CPDT, Senior Behavior Manager, ASPCA Behavioral Sciences Team
  • Webinar – 4/24/20 – COVID-19 – A Virologist’s Perspective for Veterinarians – AVMA

    Webinar – 4/24/20 – COVID-19 – A Virologist’s Perspective for Veterinarians – AVMA

    With each passing day, we are learning more and more about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19. As veterinary clinicians and clinician-scientists, many of us are interested in learning more about the virus and its potential effect on our veterinary patients.
    Join us to hear the perspectives of these researchers as they address important questions regarding the ongoing pandemic, including:

    • How do viruses “jump” between animals or from animals to people?
    • What made this coronavirus so successful in establishing a pandemic?
    • What are the advances in antiviral therapy against SARS CoV-2?
    • What are some details regarding diagnostic tests currently available and the status of those under development?
    The following experts from the Baker Institute for Animal Health will be hosting a live chat:

    • Colin Parrish, PhD/ John M. Olin Professor of Virology
    • Dr. Luis Schang, MV, PhD/ Professor of Chemical Virology
    • John S. L. Parker, BVMS, PhD/ Associate Professor of Virology
    • Diego Diel, DVM, MS, PhD / Associate Professor of Virology

    Also joining will be special guest Dr. Bruce Kornreich, Director of the Cornell Feline Health Center.

    The panel will be moderated by Dr. Scott Coonrod, Director of the Baker Institute for Animal Health, Dr. Gerlinde Van de Walle, and Postdoctoral Associate Brian Wasik.
  • Webinar – 5/7/20 – Fundraising for Public Shelters and the 501(c)(3)s that Support Them – CalAnimals – Gina Knepp

    Webinar – 5/7/20 – Fundraising for Public Shelters and the 501(c)(3)s that Support Them – CalAnimals – Gina Knepp

    Did you know that California law does not prohibit a government agency from accepting donations? Government-run shelters are missing big opportunities if they don’t recruit community members to create a 501(c)(3) to support shelter efforts of animal welfare. Hear a case study from Friends of Front Street Shelter and their annual event called Big Day of Giving sponsored by the Sacramento Region Community Foundation, which raises funds for approximately 600 nonprofits (https://www.sacregcf.org/about-us/newsroom/making-news/bdog2019-results/).The Front Street Shelter garners more individual contributions than any other nonprofit, even though the shelter is a city agency. Understand the legalities and practicalities of accepting donations, ad understand the benefits of enlisting supporters to create and maintain a 501(c)(3) nonprofit to support shelter operations by raising both funds and goodwill. Learn some best practices in fundraising to avoid controversy, damaging public scrutiny, and loss of goodwill.

    Webinar for CalAnimals Members Only.

    https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_k7qiyxMYSU2TMs3DawtLWA

  • Webinar – 4/30/20 – Fear Free for Shelters & Veterinary Clinics – CalAnimals – Dr. Cindi Delany KSMP

    Webinar – 4/30/20 – Fear Free for Shelters & Veterinary Clinics – CalAnimals – Dr. Cindi Delany KSMP

    We know shelters can be a stressful place for animals. And, even the best non-shelter veterinary clinic causes most happily owned pets fear, anxiety and stress. When you combine the two – a veterinary clinic setting in a shelter – the chance animals receiving needed medical care will be under significant stress skyrockets.

    Being able to identify signs of fear, anxiety and stress in the animals in our care and do everything we can to decrease the negative impact of these emotions on the animals will keep them healthier and happier while they are with us. It will also help them find their forever homes sooner.

    Employing Fear Free techniques will also keep the animals and our staff safer, make our own jobs easier and less stressful and enable us to provide better care.
    In this session we’ll discuss how to recognize concerns in animals and give you strategies, techniques and tools to improve the emotional well-being of animals in shelters and particularly in the shelter clinic. We’ll discuss basic care, medical restraint and handling and adjunctive tools and therapies to consider following the Fear Free model.
    We’ll also give you a preview of the free on-line certificate program – The Fear Free Shelter Program – that you and other shelter staff members can take now to learn more about this topic.

    https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3cOwZg9eQ3SertVWvGkK3g

  • Webinar – Your Data Counts – Ideas and Tools to Activate Data – CalAnimals – Shelter Animals Count

    Webinar – Your Data Counts – Ideas and Tools to Activate Data – CalAnimals – Shelter Animals Count

    Learn how to leverage available data and free resources from Shelter Animals Count to empower all aspects of your organization. Learn from Shelter Animals Count – an independent, collaborative, first-of-its-kind organization gathering standardized data at local, state and national levels on animal intakes and outcomes in animal shelters – how to amplify grant requests through comparative local and national data and how to measure programming success. Even the most basic data collection is valuable in making decisions, steering operations, raising funds and more. Your shelter’s data becomes even more powerful when it is part of The National Database. Review sample use cases that give both basic and more complex actionable ways to apply data insights using free tools and resources. Access the Shelter Animals Count website on their devices. The National Database has data from 2011 – 2019 self-reported by thousands of organizations. Shelter Animals Count provides helpful tools for collecting and viewing data, all free for shelters and rescues to use!