VETGirl Presents (fee applies for non-members): Dr. Jane Quandt, DACVAA, DACVECC discusses how to utilize chemical restraint techniques for fractious, fearful or reactive dogs and cats, including some given by the owner prior to arrival at the hospital.
IAABC Presents (fee applies): Would you like to improve your effectiveness and success rate with impulsivity/hyperactivity, reactivity, and fear clients, or are you looking to get started with these types of behavior issues? This 8-week Mentorship with Kristina Spaulding, PhD, CAAB, will focus on canine impulsivity/hyperactivity, reactivity, and fear.
Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge Presents: This immersive and coach-guided course will do more than help you identify new ways to improve animal welfare and wellness. It will also get you started making those improvements in less than 2 months (and your coaches will continue to support you on an ongoing basis once Bootcamp is over).
Ohio Veterinary Medical Association Presents (fee applies): The Midwest Veterinary Conference (MVC) brings together highly regarded expert speakers, hundreds of industry vendors, and thousands of veterinary professionals from across the U.S. and beyond for four days of education and networking.
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Maddie’s Fund, in concert with American Pets Alive!, hosts a weekly hour-long Zoom call for animal welfare leaders. While these calls started out as a response to COVID-19, it’s grown into so much more. These calls are a safe place to discuss uncomfortable topics, all while sharing a common goal of preserving the human-animal bond.
Dogs Playing for Life Presents: In this webinar, we will teach the fundamentals of our “Fancy Footwork” techniques that focus on achieving good leash manners through the use of your FEET instead of your hands. Come learn this unique and highly effective approach that promotes dogs happily walking softly by your side, offering tons of eye contact, and wowing adopters!
UC Davis KSMP Presents: We’re kicking off California for All Animals with two grants focused on making an immediate impact in shelters across the state. Learn more at our grant applicants informational webinar on Friday, February 18 at 12 p.m. PT.
Ohio Veterinary Medical Association Presents (fee applies): The Midwest Veterinary Conference (MVC) brings together highly regarded expert speakers, hundreds of industry vendors, and thousands of veterinary professionals from across the U.S. and beyond for four days of education and networking.
University of Florida – Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program Presents (fee applies): Compassion Fatigue Strategies is a unique online course designed to support people who work with animals. The course will help you recognize signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue, learn to manage your stress levels and increase your self-care practices, connect with the rewards of your work, build your resiliency, and commit to making successful changes in your life and in your organization.
Humane Network/UoP Presents (fee applies): This award-winning online certificate program provides practical information and valuable networking for current sheltering professionals, those looking to advance their career, or move into the field of animal sheltering. The program’s courses include leadership, shelter operations, community program development, animal health/clinic operations, and marketing/development.
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Maddie’s Fund, in concert with American Pets Alive!, hosts a weekly hour-long Zoom call for animal welfare workers and volunteers. While these calls started out as a response to COVID-19, it’s grown into so much more. These calls are a safe place to discuss uncomfortable topics, all while sharing a common goal of preserving the human-animal bond.
IAABC Presents (fee applies): Wherever you are in your cat behavior consulting career, we are pleased to offer a first-ever opportunity in the industry: a cat behavior consulting mentorship. This program will traverse the process of seeing private clients and evaluating and managing problem feline behaviors.
VETGirl Presents (fee applies for non-members): Dr. Shelby Reinstein, DACVO reviews orbital diseases causing exophthalmos and enophthalmos. The causes, diagnostics and treatment options for orbital cellulitis, orbital abscesses, and orbital neoplasia will be presented.
VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary, 30-minute YouTube LIVE VETgirl webinar, Dr. Cynthia Ward, PhD, DACVIM reviews the Cushingoid dog. Tune in for the latest updates in diagnosis, how to start adrenolytic drugs, and how to monitor these patients.
The AAWA Presents: The American Heartworm Society and the Association of Shelter Veterinarians are developing a canine heartworm management decision-making tool. This webinar will provide an overview of and rationale for portions of this new tool.
CARE Presents: The “Sankofa” is a metaphorical symbol used by the Akan people of Ghana, generally depicted as a bird with its head turned backward taking an egg from its back. It teaches us we must reach back to value past knowledge in order to move forward. Join James Evans and colleagues talk about things we could have learned from previous Civil rights movements and leaders to truly make progress.
VETGirl Presents (fee applies for non-members):
NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: In this session, you will learn about what considerations to make for pets when preparing eviction notices and enforcing eviction orders, about the importance of companion animals for many families and stability they can provide for at-risk people in times of uncertainty, and how to utilize your community’s resources to help keep pets and their families together.
CalAnimals Presents: We’ll discuss strategic placement of deterrents, de-escalation techniques and information sharing regarding the long-term effectiveness of managing populations of community cats after sterilization. Attendees will leave this session with talking points to the most common complaints and solutions for scenarios in which cats are causing a nuisance.
Virox and Shelters United Present: Join Fear Free Founder Dr. Marty Becker and Mal Schwartz, Founder of Shelters United, as they discuss protocols on empathy that shelters and rescues can use to help keep pets happy and to make them more adoptable to increase their chances of finding a happy and healthy furever home.
