Shelter Learniverse and Industry-Wide Calendar

VIN/VSPN Presents (free for VIN members): Jennifer Woolf, DVM, MS, presents this week’s Tuesday Topic, Identifying Signs of Animal Abuse, Part 2.

Network for Good Presents: In this webinar, you’ll uncover hidden growth blockers and walk away with big ideas and practical next steps for rapidly growing your awareness, audience size, and fundraising results.

Best Friends Presents: This session will cover social media basics, including what channels you should join, what makes posts effective and what times you should post to reach your best engagement rates. Emily Tolliver will show you how to engage your staff and volunteers to share content and how to organize that content into a comprehensive social strategy.

Network for Good Presents: Whether you’re new to mindfulness and meditation, a skeptic, a lifelong practitioner, or somewhere in between, join us for an informal meditation session. We’ll do a brief practice together and talk about what mindfulness is (and isn’t) and how it can help combat the stressors of living in a hyperconnected world as we close out the year-end giving season.

Best Friends Presents: In this session, we’ll take a deep dive into the Best Friends national dataset, providing attendees with key insights on progress toward achieving no-kill nationwide and, most important, ways that shelters and rescue groups can get involved and save more lives.

HASS Presents: Join Monica Frenden-Tarant, Maddie’s® Director of Feline Lifesaving, and cat finder extraordinaire, Kimberley Freeman, for this live webinar where they will dispel myths, explain the science behind lost cats, and teach you what you need to know to reunite more lost cats with their families.

VETGirl Presents (fee applies for non-members): In this 1-hour, VETgirl anesthesia webinar, Dr. Mike Barletta, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVAA reviews the mechanism of action, chemical and physical characteristics, and the duration of action of the most commonly used local anesthetic drugs in small animal anesthesia. Toxic effects and how to prevent and treat them will also be covered during this lecture.

FDSA Presents (fee applies): This webinar will look at the day to day lives of senior dogs and how we can make small changes to improve their safety and comfort as their body ages. This includes some household adaptations as well as gentle conditioning and exercise suggestions that target the areas that often tend to weaken first in older dogs.