Shelter Learniverse and Industry-Wide Calendar

Not One More Vet Presents: According to Dr. Gabor Mate, “Trauma is not what happens to you, it’s what happens inside you as a result of what happened to you”. Considering this explanation and the pervasive nature of trauma in veterinary medicine, this session will explore how we as veterinary professionals, teams and practices can adopt trauma-informed principles to create more psychologically healthy and safe workplaces.

GoodPup Presents: During our spring webinar series, we will break down how to provide preventive management and simple solutions for addressing a variety of common behavioral challenges experienced with the welcoming of new family members. This month’s topic is: Reactivity to Unfamiliar People.

Petfinder and Shelters United Presents: Unleash the power of adopter search insights to improve your pet listings! Learn how to harness adopter search trends to attract more potential adopters and get pets adopted faster.

NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: When veterinarians, law enforcement, animal control officers, and animal care entities put significant resources into an investigation, it can be disheartening and frustrating when a prosecutor declines to charge on that case. Instead of looking for fault at the prosecutorial level, this presentation will hold up a mirror to the entities working these cases and reflect on primary areas that can be most improved in order to present a case more viable for prosecution.

FDSA (fee applies): Grief, along with guilt, shame and blame, get in the way of good training. Why? What can we do about these feelings? Learn specific actionable techniques to cope better with navigating your own emotions and other people’s comments, judgements and reactions to deal with grief, shame, blame and guilt.

FDSA Presents (fee applies): Ultimately, “When to Click: Creating that Perfect Shot” is designed to provide every photographer with the knowledge and tools they need to elevate their craft to the next level. Whether you’re an aspiring professional or simply passionate about photography as a hobby, this webinar promises to be an informative and inspiring experience.

Think Anesthesia Presents: Current dogma undoubtedly has influence over decisions veterinary professionals make surrounding the peri-anesthetic period. Often these incontrovertibly true beliefs originate from a misconception, ounce of truth, diluted or embellished by word of mouth and/or articles of opinion or limited weighted experiences eventually being commonly understood or accepted. This presentation is complementary to the previous presentation and investigates using an evidence-based approach to assess some of the common myths or misconceptions surround the peri-anesthetic period.

Community Cats Podcast Presents: Trying to catch the last cat in your colony who isn’t fixed? Got a wily feral who just won’t go into a box trap, no matter how much you spend on roasted chicken? How about catching a litter of kittens all at once—with their mom? All these tough trapping situations and more can be solved if you know how to use a drop trap! Join Neighborhood Cats, co-designers of the first commercially available drop trap, as they discuss how to use this invaluable tool. Plus tips and tricks for advanced drop trappers, too.

PPG Presents (fee applies: Unfortunately, while the research on this disorder is significant, concrete evidence surrounding effective treatment remains limited. Separation anxiety training is a complex topic that deserves in-depth discussion. In this webinar, we will review the various aspects of what truly makes systematic desensitization the gold standard for resolving separation-related behavior problems.

ASPCAPro Presents: Returning animals back to homes they already have is vital to ending overcrowding and euthanasia in shelters. In this webinar, you will hear from three agencies: Circle of Friends, ND; City of Havre, MT; and Heart of the Valley, MT about how and why they have been successfully reuniting pets with their families in their communities. 

PPG Presents (fee applies): Living with a dog who relentlessly scavenges food can be exhausting. Instead of enjoying relaxed walks with their dogs, dog owners are constantly scanning the environment for discarded food and feel frustrated as they have to fish something disgusting out of their dog’s mouth, yet again. However, there is a structured food-avoidance training program that can help manage a dog’s scavenging behaviour in a kind, effective way – achieving long-term results without aversive training techniques.

CalAnimals Presents: As many shelters face overcrowding and slow adoptions, this webinar is intended to help you get the animals home. This is a check in on best practices, what is working, and what isn’t with respect to returning pets to their families or placing them with new families. If your adoption or RTO programs need a boost, you won’t want to miss this!

VETGirl (fee applies for non-members): In this 1-hour VETgirl wellness webinar, Dr. Sonja Olson, DVM will guide a conversation that examines boundary creation, articulation, and value. Boundaries are essential when it comes to healthy individuals, teams, and culture. So why are they so hard? Tune in and learn some of the places and reasons why healthy boundaries for yourself and for the team can be challenging and then how to be more skillful in navigating these important conversations!

PPG Presents (fee applies): In this webinar, Niki will introduce the concept of Motivational Interviewing and Commitment Strategies. Learn how these can be used to harness a client’s ambivalence and then use this ambivalence to motivate effective behavior change. She will also discuss various types of commitment strategies that can be used to hold clients accountable for their own words and goals.

HASS Presents: State legislative sessions have ended (or are ending soon!) across the United States and it’s critical to understand how these sessions will impact people, pets, shelters, and rescues. Join us for an overview of 2023’s animal-related bills.

FDSA Presents (fee applies): Sara will also provide different methods of adding duration to your calm stationary behaviors and stays, including the Multiple Reward Stay and Reverse Luring. She will also talk about how to create duration in your motion behaviors as well through gradual fading of helper cues and decreasing rate of reinforcement.