Shelter Learniverse and Industry-Wide Calendar

Dogs Playing for Life Presents: 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.

Maddie’s Fund Presents: In this webcast, you’ll learn how creating emotional connections with your transport partners can help you increase adoption and foster placements and engage your supporters. You’ll learn how you can create urgency around pet transport while putting your organization and your partners in a positive light, and how to utilize a great foster tool you may not have known you have.

FDSA Presents (fee applies): Want the dog to act like they are following you? I’m not a total miracle worker, but join me for this webinar and I’ll give you some skills to work on that will make walking much more enjoyable, whether that is from Pt A to B in the competition venue or outside in the real world.

GoodPup Presents: The GoodPup Webinar Series focuses on dog behavior topics designed specifically to help anyone who works at rescues and shelters. The goal of our Webinar is to bring you some tips and tricks on how to build enrichment into your dog’s life and to leave you with some steps that help ensure your pup is set up for success!

VETGirl Presents (fee applies for non-members): Join us for this 2-hour, VETgirl ophthalmology CE track webinar where Dr. Shelby Reinstein, DACVO reviews the causes for sudden blindness in dogs in cats, including SARDS, chorioretinitis, optic neuritis, retinal detachment, and primary brain disease.

Puppyworks Presents (fee applies): Animal cognition has long been associated with tool use, and even tool making, most famously in Jane Goodall’s study of chimpanzees. The dog world has followed suit: Over the past decade-plus there has been a revolution in the world of dog behavior, as canine cognition scientists have explored abilities of the dog’s brain once thought to be far beyond the reach of our canine companions.