Maddie’s Fund Presents: With every shelter stuffed to bursting, finding fosters and adopters is crucial. For some pets this is simple, but others are harder to place. In this workshop, we’ll discuss your favorite long stay pets to identify strategies for marketing them to fosters and adopters. This workshop is not just for foster staff– it’s open to anyone who is interested in marketing pets who are harder to place!

Maddie’s Fund Presents: By embracing pet-inclusive policies, we can help families stay together and create neighborhoods where pets are valued as part of the family. At the end of this free half-day event, presenters will share a collection of resources to help you apply what you learn in your own organization and community. Come make new friends and help make housing accessible to all members of the family!

California for All Animals Presents: At the 11/19 All Call, we’ll explore how we can integrate public health models into our work. Rachel Rae Williams will lead us in discovering and applying promising systems designed to achieve health equity in order to design programming that prioritizes the well-being of people, pets, and the planet.

Maddie’s Fund Presents: From quick body language cues, to tips and tricks for integration, to having tough conversations – maybe the dog they chose isn’t a good fit! – Certified Professional Dog Trainer Sam Wolfman will guide you through the do’s and don’ts to help you get more comfortable and have more success in dog to dog matchmaking.

California for All Animals Presents: Join Jorge Delgado and Cel Jimenez from the Humane Society of Sonoma County for our last All Call of the year! We’ll discuss strategies for building a sustainable pet food pantry and how to create support among food banks and pet food pantries to fight hunger in our communities.

Karen Pryor Academy Presents: Join Ken Ramirez and Melissa Taylor on the next episode!

Maddie’s Fund Presents: If you’re interested in behavior modification plans, this webcast is for you! Attendees will benefit from Tom’s extensive experience in the UK Shelter Network and learn how to evaluate challenges in difficult training environments. Tom will also show us how to create successful, adjustable behavior modification plans to maximize progress and achieve measurable success.

Maddie’s Fund Presents: Sarah Aguilar, Director of Santa Barbara County Animal Services, describes how she and her small team expanded their capacity and improved morale through the growth of their foster program. From starting a Doggy Day Trip program, with about 350 trips each month, to 1,500 kitten placements and housing as many dogs in foster as in shelter, SBCAS built on their existing systems and saw immediate benefits in dog well-being, adoptions, and volunteer engagement. Hear how they did it, what they learned along the way, and what’s next for the program.

Karen Pryor Academy Presents: On Live from The Ranch, Maia Huff-Owen will join Ken Ramirez to share insights on social reinforcement—where the reinforcer involves the behavior of another being besides your learner—which she gained from teaching positive reinforcement sheep herding.

Community Cats Podcast Presents (small fee applies): Are you ready to be part of the solution for feral and stray cats in your neighborhood? Our expert instructors will teach you best practices for Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) and colony management. Learn what TNR is and why it works.

California for All Animals Presents: At the next All Call on January 21, we are shifting gears to create space for what’s most needed now—connection and resource-sharing. Join your colleagues across California at 12 p.m. PT to offer and receive support. SoCal organizations will highlight resources available to shelters as they continue to mobilize to assist pets and people displaced by the fires.

Maddie’s Fund Presents: Meet with Dot Baisly, the Executive Director of the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants (IAABC) for a discussion on deciphering all those letters and learn about the IAABC’s certifications, particularly the shelter behavior certifications. These certs are the only ones in the animal behavior industry that are specific to the needs of shelters and their animals. Dot will review the steps to becoming certified and be available after for a discussion and answer questions anyone may have about certifications and IAABC specifically.