Webinar - 4/18/22 - Your Pet Licensing Report Card - CalAnimals
2022-04-18 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Join us as DocuPet provides a fun and creative look at what they call the “Pet Licensing Report Card.” Covered topics include:

Identification of the key components of a healthy pet licensing program
A fun and easy way to assess the state of your current pet licensing program
Actionable ideas for how to improve your program’s “grade” and
A brief overview of DocuPet and how they can help streamline and modernize your licensing offering!

WEBSITE LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YiVxl5YIT-aebo4fUBc-HA

Webinar - 4/19/22 - Help! Why is this Dog so Itchy? - VETGirl
2022-04-19 17:00 - 18:00
Allergies? Atopy? What can it be?!
In this complimentary, 1-hour VETgirl–Zoetis webinar, Dr. Ashley Bourgeois, DACVD reviews the many reasons dogs can be itchy. After all, it’s hard to differentiate between the different allergies, especially when more than one type is present. There can be subtle differences that affect the allergic dog workup and treatment decisions. Tune in to learn all things itch – ectoparasites, secondary infections, cutaneous adverse food reactions, and pharmacologic options for managing canine atopic dermatitis.
Thanks to sponsorship from Zoetis, this webinar is FREE to all!
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WEBSITE LINK: https://vetgirlontherun.com/webinars/april-19-2022-help-why-is-this-dog-so-itchy/

Webinar - 4/21/22 - From Fierce or Fearful to Friendly: A Shaping Program for Dogs, Cats, Horses & Beyond - Dog iBox (fee applies)
2022-04-21 10:00 - 11:30
Fearful and aggressive behaviors are generally regarded as respondent behaviors. That is, they are considered natural reactions to certain triggers. However, pet owners find it problematic when their animals engage in excessively fierce or fearful behaviors.
To address these behaviors, trainers often rely on respondent conditioning techniques, such as desensitization or counterconditioning. The focus of these procedures is on changing the animal’s emotional state to the trigger. Other common procedures try to directly shape a calm response using food or other positive reinforcers.
Alternatively, fearful and aggressive behaviors may also be seen as successful operants that are captured and maintained by negative reinforcement. That is, engaging in the behavior leads to distance from or the removal of something that the animal finds aversive. For example, a dog learns that when he growls, strangers go away and leave him alone. This view offers an alternative approach to treatment.
This webinar will show how distance can be used as a reinforcer to shape friendly behaviors that replace fearful or aggressive behaviors.
WEBSITE LINK: https://www.dog-ibox.com/live-webinars/live-webinars-english-c-34.html

Webinar - 4/21/22 - Open Adoptions and Adoption Counseling Essentials - CalAnimals
2022-04-21 10:00 - 11:30
Reducing barriers to adoption and ensuring our staff are properly trained in adoption counseling is critically important. In this webinar, attendees will learn why an open adoption policy is the best policy and how to facilitate conversations with adopters to find the best match for both pets and people.
Presenter Chantalle Little, has 10 years of professional experience in sheltering and a degree in Animal Science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. She is currently serving as the Animal Care Manger for Woods Humane Society having previously held positions in in the medical department, customer service, animal care, and intake departments. She helped Woods triple adoptions by ramping up the organization’s transport program and launched and managed the Woods’ foster care program. She is an excellent adoption counselor, a great coach and mentor to her team, and one of our outstanding participants in the CalAnimals Emerging Leaders Program.
WEBSITE LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JaG-0In3RtCgy87POzS9Xw

Webinar - 4/21/22 - Purr-fect First Aid Tips for Kitties with Arden Moore - National Kitten Coalition
2022-04-21 11:00 - 12:00
Join Health and Safety Coach, Arden Moore, and learn about first-aid tips just for cats and kittens!
If you can’t join us for the live presentation, don’t worry! Sign-up anyway, because a recording of this, and the other Webinars, will be available on The National Kitten Coalition’s website no later than 2 weeks after it airs.
Presenter: Arden Moore, Master Pet First Aid/CPR Instructor and Founder of Pet First Aid 4 U.
WEBSITE LINK: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6143537034510167822

Webinar - 4/21/22 - Let's Talk Therapy: It's Time to Put You FIRST - The Bridge Club
2022-04-21 17:00 - 18:00
A candid discussion answering all the questions about removing the stigma, what happens in your first appointment and finding the right therapist. Today as more and more stresses impact veterinary professionals from financial concerns, to pet owner treatment, we are in a mental health crisis. So it is time for us to truly dive into solutions to help veterinary professionals. Join The Bridge Club along with our guests Dr. Genie Bishop of Royal Canin and Kelsey Creelman, MSW to remove the stigma and to truly understand what that first therapy appointment looks like.
WEBSITE LINK: https://www.thebridgeclub.com/events/lets-talk-therapy-its-time-to-put-you-first

Webinar - 4/22/22 - They Just Want to Play: Increasing Welfare, Reducing Shelter Length of Stay and Increasing Live Outcomes for Dogs with Barrier Frustration - PPG (fee applies)
2022-04-22 13:00 - 14:00
For understandable safety reasons, many shelter and rescue organizations test a dog’s “sociability” with other dogs on a leash or through a fence. Members of PPG’s Shelter & Rescue Committee found that this results in false positives for “dog-aggression,” which can result in dire consequences for the animal, including euthanasia or increased length of stay due to adoption barriers.
When 60% of US households have dogs, a sheltered dog who must be the “only animal in the home” has a much lower chance of being adopted. A great many dogs bark, lunge, growl and/or snarl when introduced to other dogs on a leash or through a physical barrier like a kennel door or fence. However, we have found that a significant number of these dogs have the ability to exhibit appropriate, pro-social and playful behavior with other dogs when these barriers are removed.
This session will focus on introduction methods and behavior modification protocols that are realistic for resource-thin shelter and rescue organizations, who may not have the luxury of qualified behavior specialists to perform dedicated and time-consuming desensitization and counterconditioning procedures. We believe we can increase adoption rates, reduce euthanasia, reduce “kennel stress” and length of stays with the playgroup and behavior modification protocols presented.
This was previously aired at Geek Week 2021
Learning Objectives:

Learn about the free PPG resource ThePetRescueResource.com for shelters and rescues, and see case studies and examples of the treatment of aggressive behavior with playgroups.
Define and understand barrier frustration vs. fear, proximity sensitivity, compulsive fighting, etc.
Why mislabeling dogs presenting with frustration as “dog-aggressive” is a serious welfare concern.
How to treat barrier frustration without the resources for desensitization.

About the Presenter:
K. Holden Svirsky CTC completed a behavior internship with Dr. Jeannine Berger at the San Francisco SPCA in 2015. She is a graduate of the prestigious Academy for Dog Trainers and was awarded its shelter and rescue scholarship in 2014. She has completed Michael Shikashio’s (also presenting at Geek Week) Aggression in Dogs master course and is beginning her certification for treating separation anxiety with Malena DeMartini.
Holden sits on the PPG Shelter and Rescue Committee, is an author of ThePetRescueResource.com, and has had articles published in BARKS from the Guild. She has been a teacher as long as she can remember, and began her career in behavior work with children, teaching language and math skills to students with autism, attention deficit, attention deficit-hyperactivity, dyslexia and hyperlexia.
She worked full time as a behavior specialist at several shelters from 2012 to 2019. She performed intake at shelters all over the state of California, taught public classes, held private consultations, executed behavior modification on hundreds of shelter animals, ran playgroups, counseled adopters, and trained service dogs for veterans.
Holden currently teaches specialty group classes for the award-winning Bravo!Pup in Oakland, California including classes for shy/fearful dogs and inter-dog social behavior. In her private practice, HoldenK9, she consults privately for individual clients and shelter/rescue organizations across the United States.
Holden grew up with working-line gun dogs, has adopted & fostered many mixed breed shelter dogs, and currently shares her life with a Yakutian Laika — an ancient sled dog breed — nicknamed ZZ. In her free time, Holden is a sailor and canicross runner, hoping to get into bikejoring in 2022. She currently lives on Nantucket Island.
WEBSITE LINK: https://petprofessionalguild.com/event-4758488
