Fear Free Presents: Veterinary medicine in 2021 continues to provide challenges—ongoing curbside service, COVID-19, and client concerns and frustrations. Join Natalie Marks, DVM, CVJ, as she discusses some very practical tips and tricks to helping clients understand what we do and why we do it and that we all have the same goal—healthy and happy pets.
ACVB Presents: Join us in this webinar where we will walk through the decision tree to diagnosing behavioral causes for feline house soiling, differentiating between marking behavior and unwanted toileting behavior (previously referred to as “inappropriate elimination”), and discuss prevention and treatment recommendations.
FDSA Presents (fee applies): In this webinar, you’ll learn the skills that will get you through the rough spots without the blow up, and master the fine art of the magnet walk and while you develop strategy that can help get you back out and about! Let’s get your dog walking with you again!
Getting 2 Zero Presents: This session is an introduction to how to ensure your strategic plan is aspirational enough AND deliverable. On how to create a vision that inspires, how to ensure your organisation is moving forward, how to engage your people in the plan. And the step we usually miss: how to implement it in a way that ensures it’s not just a document that sits on a shelf until the next planning session in three years.
VETGirl Presents: Join us for a complimentary 1-hour, online VETgirl–Merck Animal Health CE webinar, where Steve Callister, PhD reviews Lyme disease and the historical perspective on development of vaccines. Tune in for a brief discussion of human and canine Lyme disease, historical perspective of efforts/strategies to develop vaccines to prevent Lyme disease, mistakes and successes, and the current ‘state of the art’ of vaccinating canines against the illness.
VIN Presents: Emilia Wong Gordon, DVM, DABVP (Shelter Medicine) discusses “A Tale of Two URI Outbreaks, Part 2: A Sustainable Solution.”
The AAWA Presents: Dentistry is more than cleaning and pulling teeth; and dental disease is an animal welfare issue. Dr. Lesli Groshong will discuss the medical, financial, operational, emotional, and community impact complexities of dental disease in shelter animals. Attendees will leave with an understanding of the challenges of providing proper dental care to shelter animals, including: staff training, equipment, and costs.
CalAnimals Presents: Leave this presentation knowing the common discrepancies in shelter data, significant differences between micro and macro data (and what they can and can’t show us), the data you need to understand to make informed decisions and answer commonly asked questions. You will learn how to understand what these numbers are telling you and how to use this information to advocate for your programs and save more lives.
Suzanne Clothier Presents (fee applies): This webinar is the second in the Your End of the Leash series, which focuses on helping handlers become the best possible partners for their dogs. No matter how smart your dog may be, no matter how much he knows or can do, he still depends on you as his partner. Would you want a partner who was tense with gritted teeth and tight breathing? Or would you prefer a relaxed partner, whose movements and expression showed enjoyment in working with you? This webinar focuses on the simple but oh-so complicated basic of life itself: breathing.
NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: When should you charge? Is it Simple or Gross Neglect? When does it rise to Cruelty? Do you know? Are you letting them slide when you should be charging them? This presentation will examine how to make the call. We will have interactive slides and interactive participation with a discussion about the answers. We will explore strategies to gain compliance and the cut-off point to charge and move through the criminal justice process.
American Pets Alive! Presents: Many animals are surrendered to shelters due to medical issues that families cannot afford. Most communities lack options for low cost, no-cost, or incremental full service medicine due to laws, vet associations, and lack of willing veterinary providers. Join members of the HASS External Facing Medical Care Working Group to reinvent financially based intake for medical cases, and to keep more people and pets together.
VDOS Presents (fee applies): What questions should you ask the pet owner? Feeling anxious when opening the mouth of a dog or cat? What does mesial mean? Don’t worry, all these questions will be dealt with in this webinar!
Community Cats Podcast Presents (small fee applies): Are you ready to be part of the solution for feral and stray cats in your neighborhood? Learn what TNR is, why it works, and how to get started. Our expert instructors will teach you the best practices for Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) and colony management. Plus, you’ll receive a certificate of completion after you attend.
Dogs Playing for Life Presents: Learn about all the ways in which DPFL Playgroups are transforming shelters all across the country! In this first of three webinars, we will present powerful examples of how playgroups can not only enhance the quality of life for your shelter dogs but how focusing on their quality of life through enrichment can lead to game-changing benefits to your shelter’s everyday operations.
VDOS Presents (fee applies): Is your dental x-ray machine unused because nobody knows what to do with it? Let us show you the profitability of dental radiography by demystifying the many shades of gray! See what is going on below the gum line!
NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: Whether the assigned call for duty is directly related to the animal or the animal is peripheral, understanding some basic animal handling techniques and animal behavior can be the difference between closing out a call and moving on to the next or ending up in the emergency room.
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Attendees will learn how to analyze their organization’s brand, recognize their vision gap and make simple and possibly complex changes to evolve into a community-focused organization with stronger relationships and improved public perception. Downloadable materials will be provided to help facilitate your internal work.
VETGirl Presents: In this webinar, Dr. Gagne will discuss strategies for increasing water intake including a novel nutrient enriched water supplement that has been shown to lead to increased fluid intake, increased urine volume, and decreased urine specific gravity. Help keep your feline patients hydrated!
Network for Good Presents: In a virtual world where new digital platforms are popping up on the regular and online fundraising and marketing continues to evolve, how do you create online experiences that are both authentic and engaging? In this session, nonprofit marketing expert, Taylor Shanklin, will take you through a journey to re-envision your digital marketing framework.
The AAWA Presents: Donors have poured their hearts into your missions to help improve the lives of animals—fundraisers can’t take that for granted. How can we better show appreciation to our supporters in a way that’s manageable and still brings in the revenue we need for programs? Learn how to break free from the ask-and-repeat model.
