ASPCA and The AAWA Present: Don’t miss this FREE online event showcasing how to help vulnerable pets using data. Whether you love geeking out over data, want to help pets in your community—or both—you don’t want to miss the ASPCA®-AAWA Research Forum online on October 30 from 11 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET.
PPG Presents (fee applies): This presentation will explore how important animal management messages can be spread through an animal behaviour lens, provide examples of where and how trainers can collaborate with local government agencies, and showcase opportunities to share responsible pet ownership messages through their own work.
Community Cats Podcast Presents (small fee applies): Are you ready to be part of the solution for feral and stray cats in your neighborhood? Our expert instructors will teach you best practices for Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) and colony management. Learn what TNR is and why it works.
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Join us each Monday at 11am PT/2pm ET to receive support and learn about innovative ideas other organizations across the country are seeing success with. If you registered prior to May 2024 or are new to these meetings, please use this link to register:
https://maddies.fund/CommunityConvoRegistration2024
NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Present:
California for All Animals Presents: Raquel Bernaldo and Deja Johnson will share Friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter’s (FAAS) community-centric, mutual aid approaches to supporting and working alongside Alameda community members. You’ll also hear how FAAS integrates and leverages veterinary social work in animal shelter and community engagement operations. Submit your questions for Raquel and Deja in advance at this link: https://airtable.com/appQOIwW8GobjfB1H/shrz0VQhJJ1h3l9U8
The Bridge Club Presents: Back by popular demand, our annual review of the legislative efforts that are changing veterinary medicine across the country. We will go state by state on major issues of title protection, new schools, virtual care and more. Don’t miss out on this one!
Maddie’s Fund Presents: With every shelter stuffed to bursting, finding fosters and adopters is crucial. For some pets this is simple, but others are harder to place. In this workshop, we’ll discuss your favorite long stay pets to identify strategies for marketing them to fosters and adopters. This workshop is not just for foster staff– it’s open to anyone who is interested in marketing pets who are harder to place!
Maddie’s Fund Presents: By embracing pet-inclusive policies, we can help families stay together and create neighborhoods where pets are valued as part of the family. At the end of this free half-day event, presenters will share a collection of resources to help you apply what you learn in your own organization and community. Come make new friends and help make housing accessible to all members of the family!
National Kitten Coalition Presents: This talk will discuss how to recognize, diagnose and make treatment recommendations for several types of emergencies including ocular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, parasitic, congenital and traumatic. These emergencies, while varying in levels of urgency as well as ease of treatment, all often involve a kitten that is just days to weeks old.
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Safeguarding the well-being of cats is essential to the mission of any responsible animal shelter. Environmental enrichment and behavior modification are often key to this goal. Measuring response to these interventions is essential to ensure strategies are successful. This webinar will present 4 ordinal rating scales designed to evaluate different expressions of cat behavior/welfare on a 0–5 scale (modified Fear, Anxiety, and Stress score; Response to Petting score; Participation in Play score; and Food Intake Summary score) that have excellent interobserver agreement and reliability, and a few other tools to describe behavior in a quantitative way.
HASS Presents: What are leaders of community-centered programs in Baltimore and Dallas learning as they work with people and pets beyond the shelter? Hear from them on the many issues they face and the questions their experience has raised.
Community Cats Podcast Presents: Find out how to deal with these and many more colony caretaking challenges from Neighborhood Cats with their 20 years of experience dealing with all things community cat. Come and share your battle-worn secrets too!
California for All Animals Presents: The one-hour call is a dedicated space to share and learn from each other. Popular topics include initiatives that create a more inclusive culture for both staff and community, programs that keep pets with their people, industry trends, research studies, as well as the hard stuff, like what’s not working or what is particularly difficult during times of scarcity.
The AAWA Presents (fee applies): Join your colleagues at THE Conference for Animal Welfare Professionals, featuring intermediate level content on topics you need to succeed in your life-saving work leading people and helping animals.
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Join us each Monday at 11am PT/2pm ET to receive support and learn about innovative ideas other organizations across the country are seeing success with. If you registered prior to May 2024 or are new to these meetings, please use this link to register:
https://maddies.fund/CommunityConvoRegistration2024
California for All Animals Presents: At the 11/19 All Call, we’ll explore how we can integrate public health models into our work. Rachel Rae Williams will lead us in discovering and applying promising systems designed to achieve health equity in order to design programming that prioritizes the well-being of people, pets, and the planet.
Maddie’s Fund Presents: From quick body language cues, to tips and tricks for integration, to having tough conversations – maybe the dog they chose isn’t a good fit! – Certified Professional Dog Trainer Sam Wolfman will guide you through the do’s and don’ts to help you get more comfortable and have more success in dog to dog matchmaking.
Shelter Animals Count Presents: Join us for an insightful session focused on “Kitten Level Data” with renowned experts Dr. Julie Levy and Hannah Shaw (The Kitten Lady). In this webinar, we’ll explore the vital role of data in kitten care and shelter outcomes. Learn best practices for managing kitten intakes, pathway planning, and optimizing care, from intake to adoption, through data-driven approaches.
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Join us on the fourth Thursday of every month as we talk about dog and cat behavior – supporting pets in our community and animal shelters. Each month, we hear from speakers about topics of interest to our group, such as behavior medications, modifying animal behavior, assessing and improving animal welfare, and how organizations successfully provide behavior support to dogs and cats.
