Shelter Learniverse and Industry-Wide Calendar

ASPCAPro Presents: Looking for ways to build or improve local networks to move at-risk animals within your community, region, and the northern tier states? Join us as we engage with relocation expert Karen Walsh of the ASPCA, and Chris Roy, who joins us from Doobert, during this interactive Q&A session. Refresh your understanding of transport and relocation best practices, along with tips for connecting with potential relocation partners. 

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): In this presentation, you will learn about the complex, fascinating way we think about intake and how we can revolutionize animal shelters, animal control services and rescue groups, just by digging deeper into how we track the reasons for intake and how better addressing the complexity of animal intakes might lead to better, faster outcomes.

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): In this hour-long interactive workshop, ASPCA Senior Director of Strategic and Executive Communications Joel Schwartzberg will show you how to enhance your points, presence, and impact from the other side of the screen.

CalAnimals Presents: Join Gina Knepp, a leading expert in lost animal reunification, as she leads a panel discussion with shelter directors across the country, showcasing the tremendous strides that have been made getting lost pets back home where they belong.

VDOS Presents (fee applies): Do you struggle removing root remnants? Do you know how to close an oronasal fistula? You used too much force and fractured the mandible? No worries, here you learn how to manage tooth extraction complications!

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): A Governing Board – one that provides the leadership of the organization, that sets direction and policy, that provides financial oversight and ensures adequate resources to expenditures. A good Governing Board is your way to freedom and a life. Come learn how to give up the reins and ride your non-profit into a successful future.

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): In this session participants will examine the lifecycles of nonprofits, identify opportunities and challenges of adding an advisory board, and create an opportunity matrix to guide them on community recruitment for possible board members.

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.

PPG Presents (fee applies): This session will discuss how we can best assess welfare and promising measures found across the scientific literature that can help us better understand dogs’ experiences in the shelter. With these measures in mind, the presenter will describe recent research investigating the effects of housing and social interaction on shelter dog welfare.

Network for Good Presents: In this session, we will explore the big picture, changing donor demographics, the decline in broad-based giving, the impact of virtual events, emphasis on outcomes, and more.

VETGirl Presents (fee applies): Dr. Jane Quandt, MS, DACVAA, DACVECC reviews induction drugs used in veterinary medicine. Induction drugs can be used as solo agents or in combination. Which should you consider using, and are there indications or contraindications for each? What are useful combinations and why would you consider using a combination versus a single drug?

VETGirl Presents: Join us for a complimentary VETgirl–Merck Animal Health CE veterinary technician webinar, where Dr. Justine Lee, DACVECC, DABT reviews the coughing dog. In this webinar, she’ll review infectious etiologies of cough, how to diagnose it, clinicopathologic findings, prevention and overall treatment of the coughing dog.

NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: In this webinar you will learn how to break down your foster program and rebuild it for success, the benefits of opening your foster program up to include all adoptable animals in your shelter and why that variety will help you sustain your program, and more.

VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary VETgirl–Zoetis webinar, Dr. Dana Liska, DACVD reviews how to treat the pruritic patient. Tune in to learn how to manage your allergic dermatitis patients from initial onset of itch and the diagnostic work up, how APOQUEL can be used short-term for inflammation and flares, and long-term for maintenance therapy by sharing key efficacy and updated safety data.

FDSA Presents (fee applies): Join Leslie as she tells you all about her revolutionary Look at That game and her new twist on it, LATTE. One of the most popular Control Unleashed games, LAT teaches dogs to focus around distractions and triggers; LATTE teaches dogs to chill out around those things without the working focus piece.