Fear Free Presents: Building a Fear Free culture can feel daunting for even the most dedicated Fear Free veterinary professional. Join Julie Liu, DVM, as she discusses ways to engage and empower your team to get on board with Fear Free and provide a greater level of compassion for your patients.
VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary, 2-hour VETgirl–Royal Canin webinar, Dr. Meghan Herron, DACVB reviews how psychopharmacology in the form of medications, supplements and diet can be used to combat fear, anxiety, and stress in our feline patients. In Part 2, and Dr. Anne Marie Germain will share pearls and tips for feline urolithiasis management.
PPG Presents (fee applies): In this not to be missed presentation, we will immerse ourselves into the topic of food motivation, increasing our understanding of why some dogs are indifferent to food during their training sessions, and discuss a variety of solutions!
Maddie’s Fund Presents: In this presentation, results will be shared from a new study assessing using a standardized behavior modification program and daily gabapentin administration to treat fearful cats from hoarding environments. Further, instructions and resources for conducting behavior modification in shelters will be shared, along with a summary of a growing body of research and in-shelter experience demonstrating that many fearful cats from hoarding environments are treatable in shelters and can have positive outcomes in homes.
NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: The term “community engagement” gets thrown around a lot, as if it is something that an officer can do if they have a few extra minutes. To unlock the full potential of community engagement, however, we must start thinking of it as less of a project and more of a state of mind. In this course you will learn how embracing community engagement as a mindset can, and will, increase lifesaving efforts and officer safety.
FDSA Presents (fee applies): This presentation will be an overview of the Constructional Aggression Treatment (CAT) with an emphasis on how it has been improved. I’ll go over what the Constructional Approach is, the importance of environment, and, importantly, adding the term “Alert” to our aggression vocabulary.
Shelter Behavior Hub Presents (fee applies): We want to find the best possible homes for the dogs in our care, but we also don’t want our adopters to feel like we think they’re criminals. How do we walk this fine line? Conversation-based adoptions! If you help make adoption matches for a rescue or a shelter, or just occasionally rescue animals privately, learn the modern way to make great matches happen!
PuppyWorks Presents (fee applies): This new, easy-to-follow webinar provides you with detailed and progressive training steps for making recall training fun and effective for your clients and their dog(s).
Fear Free Presents: Whether you are managing animals in a shelter environment, veterinary clinic, or laboratory setting, the welfare of animals in isolation housing is of utmost importance. Join Meghan Herron, DVM, DACVB, as she reviews signs of animal stress, how to mitigate stress, and specific tips for promoting good welfare for dogs in quarantine or isolation.
Network for Good Presents: Join Sheleia Phillips, the Grant Writing Coach and owner of SMP Nonprofit Consulting, as she breaks down her strategy for winning grants. This session will help you evaluate what’s authentically at the core of your nonprofit and how to manage a thriving grants department.
The AAWA Presents: Learn how to tell your story effectively using data through visualization development, simplify the message for reporters and various stakeholders, and use individual stories about pets and their people to illustrate the faces behind the numbers.
PPG Presents (fee applies): Bites can be prevented in the hospital environment when staff is trained properly in understanding body language and when they understand force free, positive techniques. Keeping our patients under threshold while in the hospital is critical and learning alternate ways to handle a fearful animal is needed to keep the staff safe.
HSVMA Presents: The presentation will explain the importance of preventative cancer recommendations for canine patients in the primary care setting. Several common canine cancers have been shown to be related to environmental chemical exposures. This presentation will identify specific environmental chemical exposures associated with specific cancers in dogs, or in people with analogous cancers.
VETGirl Presents (fee applies to non-members): Tune in to learn the benefits of innovation, the steps to build a culture of innovation, and how to select the ideas that will meet your veterinary organizational goals.
ASPCAPro Presents: Are you finding that some behavioral issues persist (or new ones arise) after an adopted animal joins their new family? Learn from our panel of experts as they explore the ins and outs of effective and efficient post-adoption behavioral support during this 60 minute Shelter Behavior Roundtable.
UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine Presents (fee applies): In this session, the instructors will discuss and share updates regarding the diagnosis and treatment of heartworm disease and discuss how new discoveries are affecting clinical practice. They will also answer your inquiries and present approaches to common clinical conundrums.
VETGirl Presents (fee applies to non-members): In this 2-hour, VETgirl small animal webinar, Dr. Elizabeth Rozanski, DACVIM, DACVECC reviews tips for improving the outcome in dogs and cats presenting with or developing respiratory distress. Tune in as Dr. Rozanski reviews emergency stabilization, diagnostics (including biomarkers and point of care ultrasound), common and not so common diseases, and most importantly, how to manage these cases!
Think Anesthesia Presents: Register for this month’s live webinar Think Anesthesia: Premedication, Setting the Scene for Smooth Anesthesia presented by Karen Kerr, BA, BVSc (Hons), MANZCVS (Anesthesia & Analgesia). Medications administered prior to anesthetic induction influence the ensuing anesthetic event and affect the patient’s overall experience.
PuppyWorks Presents (fee applies): This new, easy-to-follow webinar provides you with detailed and progressive training steps for making recall training fun and effective for your clients and their dog(s).
VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary, 1.5-hour VETgirl Spanish webinar, Dr. Alberto Fernandez, DACVECC will discuss the clinical conditions associated with trauma to the chest cavity in a systematic approach to organ injuries, therapies and more.
