This calendar is a listing of webinars, other learning opportunities, online meetings and other upcoming national events related to animal sheltering and related areas of interest.

Only some of these events are produced by the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program. Most are being created and sponsored by other groups and agencies.  Being listed here does not mean that we have reviewed the material contained.  We are trying to provide a variety of resources to hopefully help make your life a little easier.  For additional information on any of these items before or after the event please contact the organizer directly (listed in the item description).

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Webinar – 5/11/21 – Pet Friendly Domestic Violence Shelters: Creating a pet-friendly program that works for your community – NACA/Justice Clearinghouse

Virtual

NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: Are you ready to take a deeper dive and learn how to create a program to help domestic violence survivors and their pets find safety and healing together? This webinar will focus on overcoming barriers to creating pet-friendly programs by focusing on collaboration and thoughtful program planning.

Free

Webinar – 5/11/21 – Infection control – Are you protecting your patients (and staff and clients) from infectious diseases? – VETGirl

Virtual

VETGirl Presents: Good infection control practices are central to providing a safe environment and optimizing patient care. During this talk, Dr. Stull will unpack the top 5 infection control ‘musts’ for every veterinary clinic and discuss how to ensure infectious disease prevention efforts result in actionable, measurable success.

Free

Webinar – 5/12/21 – Handling “Nuisance” Wildlife Calls – HSUS

Virtual

HSUS Presents: This webinar expands upon our “Top 10 Tips for Taking Wildlife Calls” training by providing natural history profiles on our most common Wild Neighbors, as well as species-specific advice for humanely solving conflicts with them. Learn how to give simple tips and instructions to the public over the phone (without your having to dispatch an officer!) so that they can solve conflicts with wildlife in an effective, humane, and long-term manner.

Free

Webinar – 5/12/21 – Staff Safety and Occupational Hazards in Shelters – The AAWA

Virtual

The AAWA Presents: There are hazards in every work environment and shelters have additional, unique risks because they handle and treat animals. It is important for shelters to identify and mitigate potential hazards in their work environment, pandemic or no pandemic. This session will discuss chemical, biological, and physical hazards that are commonly found in shelters and introduce measures to reduce those risks. Webinar attendees will be better able to develop and implement strategies to maximize staff health and safety.

Free

Online Event – Wednesdays – The Wednesday Summit #ThankstoMaddie – AmPa!

Virtual

AmPa! Presents: The AmPA! weekly Maddie's Instructor Summit offers shelters and rescues a chance to talk through the most current animal sheltering challenges! Topics will change each week. You'll join AmPA! and HASS Staff and industry leaders, but, more importantly, you'll be able to engage face to face (digitally!) with people like you. Because not feeling alone makes this work a lot easier.

Free

Webinar – 5/13/21 – Preparing for Disasters: Review of the new CalAnimals Organizational Disaster Prep Checklist – CalAnimals

Virtual

CalAnimals Presents: The CalAnimals Emergency Management Committee has created an organizational checklist to help your agency prepare for disasters that affect your community. Disaster preparedness experts Ryan Soulsby from Butte County Animal Control and John Peaveler from San Diego Humane Society are offering this webinar to walk us through it and answer your questions.

Free

Webinar – 5/13/21 – Tools, Tips and Tricks for the ACO: Lessons Learned from the Field – NACA/Justice Clearinghouse

Virtual

NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: In this course, we will explore the common tools utilized by ACO’s in the field today along with the not so common uses of everyday items the ACO should never leave home without. This session with also explore the use of these tools in real-life cases responded to by today’s Animal Control Officer. Officers Alicia Dease and Madisen Taylor will share the tips and tricks they have learned in their more than a decade of experience in the field.

Free

Webinar – 5/13/21 – Digital Revenue: Small Changes Can Make A Big Impact – The AAWA

Virtual

The AAWA Presents: COVID-19 has made digital communication a necessity, not a trend, in 2021. And while not everyone can afford a super-sophisticated digital program, there are plenty of small tweaks organizations can make to improve the performance of what you’re doing now. In this RKD-sponsored webinar, we will show you how to improve your digital results.

Free

Webinar – 4/29/21, 5/6/21, and 5/13/21 – Community-Centered Veterinary Care: 3 Part Webinar Series – American Pets Alive!

Virtual

American Pets Alive! Presents: Many animals are surrendered to shelters due to medical issues that families cannot afford. Most communities lack options for low cost, no-cost, or incremental full service medicine due to laws, vet associations, and lack of willing veterinary providers. Join members of the HASS External Facing Medical Care Working Group to reinvent financially based intake for medical cases, and to keep more people and pets together.

Free

Webinar – 5/13/21 – Using Fear Free Principles to Improve Anesthetic Safety in Complicated Patients – Fear Free

Virtual

Fear Free Presents: Decreasing fear, anxiety, stress (FAS), and pain leads to safer anesthesia by allowing a lower dose of sedative and anesthetic drugs needed for anesthesia premedication, induction, maintenance, and recovery. Lower drug dosages are especially critical in complicated patients with underlying disease and physiologic compromise. In this discussion Dr. Tamara Grubb will explore the role of Fear Free principles in anesthetic safety, especially in the compromised/complicated patient.

Free

Webinar – 5/13/21 – Six Weeks in a Crate? Perioperative Behavior Strategies to Improve Patient Well-being – ACVB (fee applies)

Virtual

ACVB Presents (fee applies): Imagine the frustration for you and the owner of the dog who re-broke its leg after an expensive surgery to repair it. In this webinar, stress and its effects on healing will be reviewed. Additionally, specific, concrete suggestions on how to prepare dogs and cats pre- and post-hospitalization will be presented, including ideas for management, behavior modification, and medications.

$40

Online Course – 5/14/21 to 5/16/21 – Ophthalmology in general practice – IVS (fee applies)

Virtual

IVS Presents (fee applies): This seminar series is designed to provide you with updates on how the speakers actually do things in practice- how they actually manage a patient with a particular ocular disease or disorder, how they do certain techniques, how they combine certain drugs for treatment etc. Actual cases will be presented to emphasize the clinical indications for the techniques.

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Online Course – 5/14/21 to 5/16/21 – Ophthalmology in general practice – IVS (fee applies)

Virtual

IVS Presents (fee applies): This seminar series is designed to provide you with updates on how the speakers actually do things in practice- how they actually manage a patient with a particular ocular disease or disorder, how they do certain techniques, how they combine certain drugs for treatment etc. Actual cases will be presented to emphasize the clinical indications for the techniques.

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Webinar – 5/15/21 – Dental Cleaning and Periodontal Therapy – VDOS (fee applies)

Virtual

VDOS Presents (fee applies): This VDOS webinar will discuss power tools and hand instruments (scalers and curettes) needed to perform a professional dental cleaning (scaling and polishing). Closed periodontal therapy (root planing and gingival curettage) and perioceutic treatment (local administration of medications) will be reviewed. Instrument sharpening will be briefly explained.

$34.99

Online Course – 5/14/21 to 5/16/21 – Ophthalmology in general practice – IVS (fee applies)

Virtual

IVS Presents (fee applies): This seminar series is designed to provide you with updates on how the speakers actually do things in practice- how they actually manage a patient with a particular ocular disease or disorder, how they do certain techniques, how they combine certain drugs for treatment etc. Actual cases will be presented to emphasize the clinical indications for the techniques.

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Webinar – 5/16/21 – Playgroups Part 2: The What – Dogs Playing for Life

Virtual

Dogs Playing for Life Presents: Learn about all the ways in which DPFL Playgroups are transforming shelters all across the country! In Part 2, we dive into what DPFL-style Playgroups look like! During this webinar, we will view and discuss dog-to-dog communication and body language, as well as some of the operational aspects of a successful playgroup program.

Free