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National Shelter Medicine Rounds – 5/26/20 – Q&A and Discuss Animals Testing Positive for COVID – UW and UC Davis Shelter Medicine Programs
University of Wisconsin and UC Davis Shelter Medicine Programs Present Shelter Medicine Rounds: Plan for 5/26/20 – Q&A and discuss animals testing positive for COVID. This group is made up of shelter veterinarians, shelter vet trainees, and upper level shelter leadership. If you know anyone that would like to be added to the national shelter medicine rounds email list to regularly receive scheduling updates and recordings moving forward, please have them email a request to be added to the email group to nationalsheltermedicinerounds@vetmed.wisc.edu.
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Webinar – 5/26/20 – Dog Traning Online in Real Time: A Demonstration – Fear Free
Fear Free Presents: Online training may become more common during and after COVID-19. You will see real dogs and handlers with varying skill levels and, as always with live animal demos, there are bound to be some unexpected moments!
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Online Adoption Event – 5/27/20 to 5/31/20 – Find Love Online: Best Friends Virtual Super Adoption
Best Friends Presents: Join the Best Friends Network and our Lifesaving Centers for a virtual super adoption on May 27-31, 2020! The first of its kind, this national virtual event will gather adoptable animals from around the country into a central “venue” where adopters can browse, meet, and complete the check-out process in one sitting. The only thing that Network partners have to do is physically delivery or facilitate the pet’s pick up.
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Webinar – 5/27/20 – Post-Pandemic Pets: Tips on Transitioning Companion Animals as Shelter-in-Place Orders are Lifted – HSVMA & Maddie’s Fund
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.
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Webinar – 5/27/20 – Ideas for Safely Offering Spay/Neuter and Wellness: Q&A Session – Maddie’s Fund
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!
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Webinar – 5/27/20 – Keeping Families Together: Pivoting Community Programming to Support People and Pets During COVID-19 Sponsored by PetHub
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.
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Webinar – Chameleon Shelter Software – Treatment Window and Medical Operations – Chameleon Shelter Software
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.
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Webinar – 5/28/20 – Move Your Annual Report into the 21st Century – GrantSpace
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.
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National Shelter Medicine Rounds – 5/28/20 – Follow-up on – Why Access to Pet Resources is a Social Justice Issue – UW and UC Davis Shelter Medicine Programs
UW and UCD Present: We welcome back Amanda Arrington, director of Pets for Life and Gabbi Chapman, PFL Senior Analyst, Social Justice. They will be leading a presentation and discussion in follow up to Amanda’s previous rounds presentation on May 12th, Why Access to Pet Resources is a Social Justice Issue. If you missed that rounds topic we highly encourage you watch the recording at some point, but you don’t have to view it in advance of tomorrow if you don’t have the time.
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Webinar – 5/28/20 – Patricia McConnell – Exploring Dog Behavior During These Unusual Times – Karen Pryor Academy
Karen Pryor Academy Presents: Live from the Ranch – Dr. Patricia McConnell with a deep dive into understanding dog behavior during these challenging times.
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Webinar – 5/28/20 – Live QA Follow-Up: The Future of Animal Sheltering – AmPa!/Maddie’s Fund
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!
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Webinar – 5/28/20 – WorkPlace Wellness – Viticus – Animal Health
Viticus-Animal Health Presents: Personal and workplace wellness has been a special focus in the veterinary community recently, but now it’s more important than ever. To help combat the unique challenges of the times, Viticus Group welcomes Dr. Elizabeth Strand, Marie Bucko, and Dr. Jennifer Brandt to provide their advice and expertise in the realm of workplace wellness. In this Facebook Live Q&A event, they discuss how veterinary professionals can handle stress inside and outside of the practice, signs to watch for among co-workers, and resources that both veterinary students and working professionals can turn to as we face the uncertainties ahead of us.
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Webinar – 5/29/20 – AmPA! COVID-19 Preparedness Summit– MLA Alumni Edition – AmPa!
AmPa! Presents: This week’s breakout rooms will be dedicated to past Maddie’s Lifesaving Apprenticeship Subjects. The AmPA! summit offers shelters and rescues a chance to join in breakout roundtables, work with experts, and engage with leaders from communities who have been hit the hardest by this disease.
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Online Course – 5/30/20 – Anesthesia and Analgesia Part 2 – IVS
IVS Presents a 1 Day Online Course: This all new seminar has been designed to provide you with practical information on the current thoughts on anesthesia along with pain management in your practice. The combination of two Anesthesiologist/pain management specialists will provide a unique approach to patient management. Dr’s Grubb and Robertson will discuss their approach to management of patients requiring anesthesia along with their assessment and management of pain in practice today and also anesthesia and analgesia for emergency/critical care patients.
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Webinar – 6/3/20 – Update on Behavioral Assessments in the Shelter – The AAWA
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 […]
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Webinar – 6/3/20 – Decreasing Stress at the Veterinary Hospital Begins at Home – HSVMA
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 […]
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Online Meeting – 6/3/20 – Evening Parent Gathering – Adisa
Adisa Presents: Join Dr. Jyothi Robertson in casual conversation to support one another as parents in the animal sector. No registration necessary and you don’t need to have attended any of the other sessions.
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Webinar – 6/4/20 – Fundraising for Animals in Challenging Times – Alley Cat Allies – Humane Network
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.
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Webinar – 6/4/20 – Chameleon Shelter Software – WebChameleon Part 2 – Chameleon
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.