Shelter Learniverse and Industry-Wide Calendar

HSVMA and Maddies Fund Present: This Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association webinar will provide tips for new adoptive families dealing with potential separation anxiety issues as well as other transitional challenges, such as catching up on puppy socialization, changing dog walking schedules, or switching cat feeding times.

Maddie’s Fund Presents: How can we do spay/neuter in a manner that is safe for staff, clients and animals in this new “normal”? Join clinic directors and veterinarians for a Q&A session where you can ask any questions on any topic related to spay/neuter and wellness clinics including staff scheduling, keeping staff safe, intake and release, curbside vaccine clinics, anesthetic protocols, finding supplies and anything else on your mind! Our panel is here to help answer questions and we hope the audience will share ideas too!

PetHub Presents: Gateway Pet Guardians has spent years working with low income families in the Metro East St. Louis area, providing supplies and services to families with pets. Community programming has been put in place to help families access these resources, overcoming obstacles such as affordability and access. Now, more than ever, low income families in communities all over the United States can use the support of animal welfare organizations due to the rippling effects of COVID-19. As we wade through these uncharted waters, we must consider how to modify existing programming and create new programming to help families care for their pets despite recent economic impacts. This webinar will focus on ways rescues, shelters, and animal welfare agencies can provide support to families experiencing hardship, with the goal of keeping pets out of the shelter system and in their homes with families that love them.

Chameleon Shelter Software Presents: This webinar will take a process-oriented view of the Treatment window to familiarize attendees with the simple and sophisticated ways it can help ensure high standards of veterinary care. Learn how to use barcodes to save time and improve accuracy. Discover the many ways Crystal Reports and PostMaster can help manage operations and communicate with others.

GrantSpace Presents: Annual reports don’t have to be a formulaic and boring rehashing of your financials and a few key accomplishments–they can be awesome. During this webinar, we will be discussing five ways to make your annual report stand out with your key stakeholders.

AmPa! and Maddie’s Fund Present: A follow-up to our May 19 webinar, hosted by the Executive Committee of the AmPA! Human Animal Support Services Coalition. Last week we had hundreds of people join us from around the world to hear about how this coalition plans to prototype an entirely new sheltering system to serve pets and people. With dozens of unanswered questions at the end of last week’s webcast, we decided to host another, this time just for Q&A!

Behavioral assessments performed in the shelter are used to evaluate an animals’ behavior in various circumstances for specific purposes. These purposes may be to evaluate the predictability of an animal’s reaction to a number of situations. Recent insight has indicated that the evaluations in the shelter do not reliably predict how the pet is going […]

In this era of low stress veterinary visits, what about the patient that is stressed long before they arrive at the hospital? Please join HSVMA as we welcome veterinary behaviorist Dr. Meredith Stepita to discuss working with pet owners to implement a behavior modification plan at home, before the visit, to support the patients with stressors […]

Alley Cat Allies Presents: Yes, You Can Fund-Raise for Cats During COVID-19. Alley Cat Allies’ free webinar on June 4 will show you how. Many people are looking for a way to make a difference and protect cats during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now is the time to point them to a worthy cause—yours.

Chameleon Shelter Software Presents: In April we did a webinar on WebChameleon, the browser interface for Chameleon. That webinar focused mainly on processes for officers. This time we’re doing 90 minutes on WebChameleon uses in the shelter, including kennel management and WebRescue, our portal for your rescue partners.

Fear Free and Virox Present: COVID has forced change in veterinary practice more dramatically and faster than anything in our memories or experience. Telemedicine seemed so far off and now most of us are using it in some capacity. Some of us dreamed of just seeing pets without their people, and those dreams have come true! All joking aside, we can now see how pets respond when mom and dad aren’t in the building with them. We’re discovering new efficiencies we never thought possible. In this webinar you’ll learn how to be forward thinking, creative, adaptive, compassionate, efficient, and healthy (physically and emotionally) while delivering the kind of veterinary care that will have pet parents coming in more often and referring others to taste for themselves. Welcome to “business as unusual” or “returning to business as abnormal” as we embrace the change thrust upon us and harness it for growth.

Maddie’s Fund Presents: Has the Covid-19 crisis forced you to put more animals into foster care? Have you had to hold off on non-emergency surgeries and medical treatment? You’re not alone. As the “community becomes the shelter,” organizations across the country have found themselves serving their populations from afar through telehealth. This approach can be very effective and efficient, but also raises some practical questions. Come learn more about the telehealth landscape and how best to implement this tool in your shelter or clinic.

PetCo Foundation Presents: Kids across the country are saving pet lives! Tune in for our family friendly Q&A with Roman! Roman is a lifesaving superstar who has saved thousands of lives through his work with Project Freedom Ride. He’ll share how kids can get involved in saving pets and share his experiences of working with animals at a young age.