PPG Presents (fee applies): Learn Good Posture, Walk The Way Your Body is Designed, and Prevent On-The-Job Injuries. This is a light hearted and fun interactive webinar on Zoom. Come prepared to move around, learn and practice your walking mechanics and have some giggles.
The UW Shelter Medicine Program Presents: So many of the most common terrible maladies are actually quite preventable. Yet, infectious disease so often results from inequities and lack of access to care. If we want less illness and better welfare for everyone in our organizations and our communities, we need to connect the dots between infectious disease, well-being, and equity.
National Kitten Coalition Presents: We are taking a deep dive into more advanced topics and special problems regarding caring for premature kittens. We’ll answer some of your frequently asked questions and discuss incubators, nebulizers, and more!
ASPCAPro Presents: This presentation will focus on behavior-based euthanasia decisions within a collaborative, integrated care environment. Dr. Workman will present tools to guide those conversations and decisions that can provide space for both care and compassion – for sheltered animals, for shelter staff, for volunteers, and for the community.
California for All Animals Presents: Community is critical to our mission, and if we want to partner with community members and encourage collaboration through adoption, fostering, volunteering, and more, we must create an environment where people feel welcomed, heard and respected. In this roundtable, we’re getting back to the basics of community engagement. Four organizations will discuss high-impact initiatives, from culturally competent translations to programming grounded in mutual respect and appreciation for the diversity of the human-animal bond.
Dogs Playing for Life Presents: Reactivity on the part of dogs living in shelters is a rampant issue that can contribute to behavioral deterioration, increased length of stay, and even loss of life. From a misdiagnosis of “aggression” to dogs whose reactive behavior escalates to problematic and potentially unsafe levels, learning how to help dogs suffering from reactivity issues is a crucial need shared by our entire industry.
NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Present: In this webinar, you will learn—through case studies and firsthand testimony—how the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s Collaborative Response Project helped foster collaborative relationships for one community through training, grant funding, and hands on support. Encourage animal control officers, veterinarians, traditional law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and community organizations in your area to tune in and explore the ways you can start building sustainable partnerships on behalf of animals today.
PPG Presents (fee applies): Positive Reinforcement Training is not all about bribing! Using this training method, we are teaching our pets what to do in a fun and less stressful way. Remember, behavior that is rewarded is more likely to reoccur.
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Maddie’s Fund hosts a weekly 50-minute Zoom call for animal well-being professionals. These calls are a collaborative space to share exciting new programs and research, discuss uncomfortable topics, connect with peers in the industry, and more, all while sharing a common goal of preserving the human-animal bond.
The Bridge Club Presents: We want to hear from you about the state of veterinary education for veterinarians and veterinary technicians. We want your thoughts on what vetmed can do to innovate our academic and CE education, along with what is working and what needs to stop.
California for All Animals Presents: At this roundtable, we’re diving into accessible interventions that divert intake to keep more pets and people together and the processes for determining and delivering those services in a welcoming, judgment-free manner that ensures community members can reach the support they need when they need it: *before* the crisis.
Dogs Playing for Life Presents: At Dogs Playing for Life’s Stranger Danger webinar, hosted by Aimee Sadler, CEO and Founder of DPFL, you will learn how to work with dogs that are wary of strangers by building their confidence and helping them develop new skills which will enable them to meet new people (and potential adopters) happily and successfully! Even for the private dog trainer or dog owner, the skills taught in this webinar will help support your stranger danger dog to expand their comfort level when meeting new people at home!
HASS Presents: How can we better engage community members in the lost pet reunification process, and get more pets home to their families instead of sitting in shelters? This is one of the most important and urgent challenges shelters face. Our panel of experts will help you develop ways to work hand-in-hand with your community, and reunite more pets with their owners.
PPG Presents (fee applies): This webinar will provide a framework for how to approach behavioural challenges. Using a holistic perspective involving ethological, affective and behaviour analytical approaches, we will discuss how emotional reactions to triggers in the environment affect behaviour, and how we through carefully addressing those triggers can change emotions, and more.
CVMA Presents (fee applies): This interactive course focuses on individual skill development in effectively managing challenging behaviors. There are three things we drive home in this course: respond to behaviors and not people, read and respond with rational thinking, and it is hard for us to learn new ways of reading and responding to behaviors we consider negative or challenging. This course gives you a toolbox of strategies to deal effectively with challenging behaviors.
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Discover practical strategies to create more space, incorporate contemplative practices into your life, and align personal values with your actions and activities, boosting your productivity while maintaining balance. In this meeting series, Jyothi V. Robertson, DVM, DABVP (Shelter Medicine) will guide you in exploring the concepts and practices covered in the Maddie’s University® course The Journey You Own: Practices for Wellbeing and Productivity
Hatching Presents: Looking to enrich your life, personally and professionally? Hatching Hour is your community. Join Hatching CEO & Founder José Ocaño at the Hatching online gatherings to serve up expert insights, compelling stories, and actionable wisdom to help you #LiveBetter and #WorkBetter.
California for All Animals Presents: At this roundtable, panelists will gather to share workarounds for prohibitive reclaim fees and processes, successful all-hands-on-deck messaging approaches, and community-centered programs that are building relationships and reuniting pets and people from the get-go—and keeping more animals out of the shelter. Learn how one shelter more than doubled their RTH rate and achieved more wins for animals, their people, and frontline staff.
Fear Free Presents: In this webinar, we will discuss emotional triggers, how to identify these triggers in ourselves, teammates, and clients, and how to address and manage said triggers. You no longer have to choose between your passion for your work, the welfare of animals, and your own well-being.
Loose Leash Academy Presents (fee applies): Join Dr. Pachel and Mike as they take a deep dive into aggression and the underlying motivations for aggressive behavior in dogs. This will be an amazing two-day workshop with two of the most sought-after experts in the dog behavior world!
