Maddie’s Fund Presents: Join the Brother Wolf team to learn how to prepare ahead of time, communicate effectively when an evacuation occurs, collaborate with your community for support, and oversee the logistics seamlessly. These same strategies can be used to place animals into emergency foster homes due to any crisis: full shelter, unexpected large intake, part of shelter under construction, etc. The Brother Wolf team will walk you through turning a crisis into an opportunity for community connection and lifesaving work, together.

Karen Pryor Academy Presents: Ever wonder how animals learn so quickly from everyday experiences? Classical conditioning is constantly at work in animal training, shaping emotional responses long before behavior shows up. When we know how to recognize it, refine it, and use it with intentions, we can create stronger, more reliable learning.

The AAWA Presents: As a follow-up to our Justice in Action: Moving Beyond DEI in Animal Welfare webinar (October 21, 2025), this interactive roundtable invites participants to explore what justice in action looks like in practice. You’ll hear from peers and panelists who are embedding justice into their organizations’ everyday work—sharing candid insights, challenges, and strategies along the way. Whether you lead an organization, manage teams, or work directly with communities, this discussion will provide a space to exchange ideas, spark collaboration, and co-create approaches to advancing justice across our field.

Maddie’s Fund Presents: Laurie Lawless (of Shelter Behavior Integrations) and Trish McMillan (of Shelter Behavior Hub) are shelter behavior experts with decades of experience monitoring and facilitating dog play in many different contexts, but especially with shelter dogs. This webinar will review the tools and techniques they believe shelters should have on hand and employees should be taught to use, so that dogs can be cared for more safely, and so that they can have their needs met and behavior improved through social contact with their own kind.

Maddie’s Fund Presents: Fostering is a critical lifesaving pathway for most municipal shelters, but too often at-risk populations are overlooked in favor of highly adoptable animals. This presentation will focus on two of the highest risk animal groups in your shelter and how to make them a focus of your foster program: dogs with extended lengths of stay and neonatal kittens.

Karen Pryor Academy Presents: How does behavior really work, and what makes lasting behavior change possible? Understanding the science of behavior change reveals how and why behaviors shift, allowing us to apply evidence-based principles that create lasting, meaningful, and effective change.

Maddie’s Fund Presents: This session will explore the complex realities of accepting adoption returns for dogs exhibiting challenging or dangerous behavior. We’ll walk through how to guide adopters through private rehoming when appropriate, the questions we ask before accepting a behaviorally complex return, and how we incorporate professional assessments into our decision-making.

Maddie’s Fund Presents: In this discussion, we will review how animal shelters can shift from a kennel-centric medical model to a foster-centric clinic that effectively supports animals living in foster homes.

Community Cats Central Presents (small fee applies): Join Community Cats Central for an exciting virtual summit designed to deepen your understanding of feline behavior and improve your ability to support cats in your home, shelter, or rescue organization. This event features some of the animal welfare industry’s most trusted authorities on feline behavior, who will lead a variety of workshops covering a wide range of cat behavior concerns.

Maddie’s Fund Presents: When reactive dogs are confronted with their triggers at every turn in the shelter setting, how do we make progress? This presentation will go over a special shelter dog, Cypress, and the multifaceted approach his shelter team took to help him overcome his reactivity and find his way into a home. His case created what his shelter now calls the “Cypress Protocol” and has helped many dogs in the shelter setting succeed.