• Webinar – 3/11/21 – Your End of the Leash Part One: Handler Body Language – Suzanne Clothier (fee applies)

    Virtual

    Suzanne Clothier Presents (fee applies): This webinar will help you become more aware of your own body language. As a bonus, you’ll learn Suzanne’s 5 Point Check approach to handler awareness & self monitoring. This simple but effective technique will help you, and – for professionals – is ideal for your students. We’ll be doing some interactive exercises throughout the webinar so you get to experiment and experience how simple changes can provide profound changes – for the better! Join us – your dog will thank you for your improved awareness of your role as your dog’s partner.

    $24.95
  • Webinar – 3/11/21 – Shelter Behavior Roundtable: Practical Behavior Tips for Medical Care Teams – ASPCAPro

    Virtual

    ASPCAPro Presents: Animal behavior at shelters is always a hot topic, but what about when behavior treatments intersect with medical care? Join the ASPCA Learning Lab and colleagues in the field as they discuss topics surrounding behavior treatments, handling, and behavior medication. During this session, you’ll also have an opportunity to have your questions answered via a live Q&A.

    Free
  • Webinar – 3/11/21 – Recruit, Re-engage, Renew: How to place more pets into foster homes right now! – Maddie’s Fund

    Virtual

    Maddie’s Fund Presents: In this one-hour webcast, you’ll learn how to create a culture of fostering in your community and discover several strategies for placing more pets in foster (hint: recruitment is just one of them!). You’ll learn what the latest market research says about messaging and techniques that can turn potential fosters into applicants, how short-term foster programs can help you find the fosters and adopters you need, and how organizations with the most robust foster programs are building their foster base.

    Free
  • Webinar – 3/15/21 – Perioperative Considerations in Dentistry – VDOS (fee applies)

    Virtual

    VDOS Presents (fee applies): This VDOS webinar will review normal oral structures that may be confused as abnormalities and perioperative complications that can occur during dental and oral surgical procedures, including neurological deficits, tracheal injury, oral edema, orbital injury, trigeminocardiac reflex, iatrogenic lingual trauma, and vomiting and regurgitation. Fabrication of tape muzzles and placement of feeding tubes will also be discussed. The didactic lecture will last 1.5 hours, but the webinar is designed so that there is extra time for interactive participation and answering your questions.

    $39.99
  • Webinar – 3/17/21 – 15 Must-Have Code Enforcement KPIs and What They Mean for Your Agency – NACA/Justice Clearinghouse

    Virtual

    NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: Much of what Code Enforcement officers do, to improve the community’s quality of life, goes unseen. Which makes securing resources, managing reputations, and getting credit where credit is due – hard. Enter Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). KPIs are mutually agreed upon metrics used to gauge success. KPIs shift conversations from opinions to facts.

  • Webinar – 3/17/21 – Triaging Dental and Oral Emergencies – VDOS (fee applies)

    Virtual

    VDOS Presents (fee applies): This VDOS webinar focuses on triaging dental and oral emergencies. While it would be of benefit to anybody interested in small animal dentistry and oral surgery, it is specifically designed for clinicians and technicians working in an emergency setting. Various dental and oral emergencies are reviewed as they present to the frontline clinical staff, including orofacial pain, bleeding, swelling, burn, bite, laceration, degloving injury, projectile injury, tooth fracture, tooth luxation/avulsion, jaw fracture, temporomandibular joint luxation, etc.

    $39.99
  • Webinar – 3/17/21 – Is infection causing this dog’s disease? – VETGirl

    Virtual

    VETGirl Presents: Join us for a complimentary VETgirl–Zoetis webinar, where Dr. Linda Kidd, DVM, PhD, DACVIM reviews well known and not-so well-known case context provided by the minimum database that should raise your index of suspicion for infectious disease in a patient. Tune in to review and apply some concepts about infectious disease testing that will help you know when to believe a positive or negative result.

    Free
  • Webinar – 3/18/21 – Confronting Conflict with Teams – Banfield

    Virtual

    Banfield Presents: Conflict is something that, as much as we try, we cannot avoid because conflict is comes up anytime your view differs from another’s — and humans are opinionated beings. While most of us have a strong reactions to conflict, including (but not limited to) fear; avoidance; and/or dread, conflict can also have positive impacts. It can allow for exploration of new and different ways of doing things resulting in better outcomes. When we think of the negatives of conflict it’s because of the emotions that conflict evokes — often making situations feel explosive. By learning how to step up to conflict and confronting it head on by using the right approach, you can turn conflict into a positive for both you and your team.

    Free
  • Webinar – 3/18/21 – Reuniting and Renesting Orphaned Wildlife – NACA/Justice Clearinghouse

    Virtual

    NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: Does your agency or organization get calls about birds and squirrels fallen out of nests, very young raccoons seen without mom, or fawns and baby rabbits alone in fields or backyards? Whether or not you respond to these types of calls or refer them to a wildlife rehabilitator, this webinar will help you determine and achieve the best outcome for these animals.

    Free
  • Webinar – 3/18/21 – Foster Care, Covid and Technology – Getting 2 Zero

    Virtual

    Getting 2 Zero Presents: In this webinar we will discuss the latest advances in technology to help you manage foster programs at scale. Learn how organisations like yours are adapting in a COVID centric world to grow their foster programs to new heights. This webinar will mark the Australian launch of Doobert’s latest innovation – Fosterspace!

    Free
  • Webinar – 3/20/21 – Trapper Tips & Tricks – Community Cats Podcast

    Virtual

    Community Cats Podcast Presents: Drawing from almost 20 years of experience working with feral cats, the folks at Neighborhood Cats have gathered together their favorite ways of catching the wiliest of felines. Whether it’s putting in a clear rear door, using Spam as bait, wrapping your trap with green garden netting or training a cat to enter a trap, you’re bound to learn something new that will improve your trapping success.

    Free
  • Webinar – 3/21/21 – Antifungal Therapy – Past, Present & Future – VETGirl

    Virtual

    VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary VETgirl–MiraVista webinar, Dr. Andrew Hanzlicek, DVM, MS, DACVIM will provide a clinical review of anti-fungal treatment recommendations for common invasive fungal infections (e.g., blastomycosis, histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis, cryptococcosis, opportunistic molds) in dogs and cats. This lecture will also include a brief historical review and a look at what the future holds for antifungal therapies in veterinary medicine.

    Free
  • Webinar – 3/24/21 – Northern Tier Shelter Initiative Presents: Using Your Data to Develop Impactful Programming – ASPCAPro

    Virtual

    ASPCAPro Presents: With community need for services on the rise and budgets already stretched thin, making smart, strategic decisions based on data and trends is more important than ever. Join colleagues from the seven Northern Tier states, plus a data expert from Pethealth, Inc., as we explore exclusive data and share ways to use these insights when making tough program choices. During this interactive session, presenters will answer your questions as you engage with colleagues, industry experts, and the Northern Tier Shelter Initiative team.

    Free
  • Webinar – 3/24/21 – Puppy and Kitten Behavioral Toolbox: Aggression, Anxiety, Medications and Treatment – ACVB (fee applies)

    Virtual

    ACVB Presents (fee applies): We all look forward to puppy and kitten appointments, but when the patient shows signs of an emotional disorder, things get muddy. Join us for this video and picture filled webinar where you will learn which treatments have been proven to work for fear, aggression, and anxiety in puppies and kittens (and which ones do not), how to recognize abnormal behavior patterns and the early interventions which can help to slow the progression of emotional disorders.

    $40
  • Webinar – 3/25/21 – YouTube LIVE: Lepto Cliff Notes – Screen, Test and Treat Leptospirosis Better in Small Animal Practice – VETGirl

    Virtual

    VETGirl Presents: Join us for a complimentary, 30-minute VETgirl–Merck Animal Health YouTube LIVE event, where Dr. Natalie Marks reviews all you need to know about canine leptospirosis in general practice. Find out what breeds not to forget, what lab abnormalities not to miss and keys to early diagnosis and successful therapy. Learn all things lepto over lunch!

    Free
  • Webinar – 3/25/21 – Resource Guarding or Rule Setting – Suzanne Clothier (fee applies)

    Virtual

    Suzanne Clothier Presents (fee applies): This webinar focuses on the poorly understood behaviors that we label as “resource guarding.” This topic deserves a clear eyed look at these behaviors, what may be motivating them, how these fit within the context of natural dog behavior, and how to approach working with these behaviors with a more nuanced understanding. I see important differences between resource guarding and rule setting, an important distinction.

    $24.95
  • Webinar – 3/26/21 – Shelter PALS CA Shelter Law Webinar: Shelter Intake – CalAnimals

    Virtual

    CalAnimals Presents: Interested in learning about the legalities of intake in California animal shelters? Then join us as lead attorneys from the San Francisco SPCA’s Shelter PALS program, Brandy Kuentzel and Bruce Wagman, discuss California’s legal framework and a shelter’s legal requirements for dog and cat intake in the state. This 1-hour webinar will help shelter leaders more confidently communicate to diverse constituents about their shelter operations and explore creative ways to optimize welfare and lifesaving in their own communities.

    Free
  • Webinar – 3/30/21 – Low-Stress Curbside Service – Fear Free

    Virtual

    Fear Free Presents: In this presentation, Valarie Tynes, DVM , DACVB, DACAW will provide multiple suggestions for helping the system run more smoothly without sacrificing the emotional health of our patients. The result will be an appointment that runs more efficiently because the patient is more relaxed and a happier, more satisfied client because they see their pet having a less distressing experience at the veterinary clinic.

    Free
  • Webinar – 3/31/21 – Classical and Operant Conditioning Approaches to Separation Related Problems – Pet Professional Guild (fee applies)

    Virtual

    Pet Professional Guild Presents (fee applies): While systematic desensitization continues to be the gold standard training method for dogs who are afraid to be alone, a down-stay DRI is highly effective for dogs who are frustrated and can even be helpful for the fearful pups as well. Join us to brush up on your desensitization training skills as well as learn how to use a DRI down-stay to help more families gain the ability to leave their homes without worrying about their dog.

    $25 – $35