Maddie’s Fund Presents: Join us for the seventh huddle of the No Place Like Home Challenge on Tuesday, February 23 (10am PST)! This interactive huddle will include a total of 20 minutes of presentation time and 20 minutes for Q&A. Topic: Regulations and laws encourage Return to Home
NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: From the minute you step into the puppy mill, it is important to capture the images and the cacophony of the living conditions. Large Scale seizures all have the same thing in common; numerous animals. How to document the scene at a puppy mill to make sure you tell the story. As a prosecutor, how do you make it come alive for the judge or jury. There will be tips on how to make the story come alive in Court and making sure you don’t lost your case. Innovative strategies to bring the puppy mill owner to justice will be explored.
CARE Presents: Join James Evans in a discussion about the barriers that face African American students and the pathways that we can create with Dr. Hodges and Dr. Ferguson from The Critter Fixers; Dr. Michael Blackwell DVM, MPH, FNAP, Director of Program for Pet Health Equity at the Center for Behavioral Health Research at UT; and Dr. Tierra Price, DVM, MPH (she/her/hers) Founder, BlackDVM Network, LLC.
BlackDVM Network and MCVMA Present: In this collaboration, we pay homage to the first Black graduates from each of the accredited veterinary schools.
ASPCA Pro Presents: This webinar will introduce dialysis and the other extracorporeal therapies (ECT) available to treat common poisonings and overdoses in dogs and cats. Dr. Armi Pigott will review toxin-associated indications for hemodialysis, hemoperfusion, hemofiltration, and therapeutic plasma exchange. Attendees will also leave with information on how to find a referral center that provides these services.
Dog iBox Presents (fee applies): This webinar will provide practical information for everyone living with older dogs. You will no longer be a passive bystander watching your dog age. You will be introduced to how to keep aging dogs engaged with you and the environment. We’ll cover how to help them be more active and functional. You’ll learn what you can do to support your dog’s aging process and help them regain strength and confidence. This information is empowering in an area where we often feel helpless. Applying these techniques will make life easier for your aging dog. It will also make caring for them easier, more joyful, and enriching for both of you.
Virox Presents: Veterinary medicine is a team sport, for instance implementing an effective infection prevention program requires the participation of everyone on the roster. So, ensuring our high-performing and highly trained teams work well together is paramount to the success of a veterinary facility. But it sure is not easy! Especially in today’s climate, where pandemic exhaustion is wearing everyone down. Team building requires a ton of hard work, difficult conversations, and alignment around shared goals, values and a clear vision for success. This presentation will discuss the realities of teamwork in the veterinary industry, showcase team dynamics at play and present strategies and techniques to align teams and crush it every day!
Suzanne Clothier Presents (fee applies): Take one person, add one dog, and you get a third entity: the relationship between the person and the dog. Successful and humane training needs to include the relationship as the dynamic ground on which skills, behavior changes and improvements can take root. Join live or watch the recording at your convenience for an introduction to RAT™: Relationship Assessment Tool. Developed by Suzanne Clothier, RAT™ provides a new perspective on understanding of the dog/human relationship.
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Join us for the final huddle of the No Place Like Home Challenge on Thursday, February 25 (1pm PST)! This interactive huddle will be your chance to discuss anything else that wasn’t covered in the previous 7 huddles regarding Return to Home.
The Bridge Club Presents: Join us for a conversation with special guest Meredith Jones on how to tackle the high levels of student debt facing many recent graduates of veterinary school.
VETGirl Presents: Join us for a complimentary 1-hour, online VETgirl–Merck Animal Health CE webinar, where Dr. Natalie Marks reviews leptospirosis and “myth busts” some common misconceptions about the disease in canine medicine. Tune in to learn the current epidemiology and clinical presentations of leptospirosis, diagnostic options and treatment of acute and chronic leptospirosis (yes, I said chronic Lepto!), and learn how to establish a safety protocol in veterinary hospitals to avoid zoonosis.
CalAnimals Presents: Interested in operating a legally compliant community cat program (CCP) in California? Then join us as lead attorneys from the San Francisco SPCA’s Shelter PALS (Shelter Policy and Legal Services) program, Brandy Kuentzel and Bruce Wagman, walk us through the legalities of community cats in California.
Community Cats Podcast & United Spay Alliance Present (fee applies): Join CCP and United Spay Alliance as they partner up to offer a three-day virtual conference that will focus on all aspects of spay/neuter. You’ll see presentations from all sorts of animal welfare experts on topics ranging from starting a low-cost spay/neuter program and funding spay/neuter services, to raising awareness in the community and more! You’ll have opportunities to ask questions, hear what works and didn’t work for professionals and volunteers from the community, and you’ll come away with new ideas to help you control the pet population in your area.
Pet Professional Guild Presents (fee applies): What do (and don’t) we know about how genetics affects canine aggression? In this webinar, Jessica Hekman will take a deep dive into her own area of research – how genetics affects personality in dogs. How much of canine personality is due to genetics and how much to environment? How do researchers track down genes related to personality? Have any such genes yet been found? Can we expect a genetic test for dog reactivity any time soon? In this webinar, Jessica will particularly address examples from human literature about traits that are similar to reactivity and aggression in dogs, why they are so hard to understand from a genetics viewpoint, and what the future holds for us.
OAVT Presents (fee applies): The Ontario Association of Veterinary Technicians (OAVT) is proud to present the annual OAVT Conference in a virtual format. With best-in-class speakers from across North America, the OAVT 2021 Conference features over 40 hours of CE!
Suzanne Clothier Presents (fee applies): RAT™ is a rapid assessment tool that provides clear information about each relationship. Whoever they may be, in every relationship the handler brings his or her habits, personalities, needs and style to interact with the dog, who also brings his own personality, patterns of response, needs and style. We need to work with the whole package. RAT™ is ideal for trainers, instructors, shelter workers, rescue groups, veterinarians, vet techs, breeders, service dog trainers, AAI/AAT and anyone interested in understanding and enhancing the dog/human relationship.
VDOS Presents (fee applies): Feeling uncomfortable about sticking a needle through oral mucosa near a neurovascular bundle? Don’t worry, here you learn everything you need to know about nerve blocks for your dental and oral surgical patients!
My Dog Is My Home Presents (fee applies): A first-of-its-kind conference focused on equity and access within social services for people and animals experiencing homelessness. Hear from experts in the fields of emergency housing, social services and animal welfare on everything from supporting the human-animal bond and advocacy for low-barrier policies to animal health and safety and building community partnerships. Enjoy curated storytelling segments, interactive activities and loads of giveaways.
NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: There comes a time in every investigator’s career that cats and dogs are part of a case, whether centrally, as seen in situations of animal cruelty, or peripherally, as often seen in domestic violence calls. In many of these situations, you may need to document the animals’ condition without the assistance of a veterinarian or experienced humane law enforcement officer. Do you know what you are looking for, and what to put on the record? This webinar will take you through the basic logistics of documenting an animal’s condition- nose to tail- including physical and behavioral characteristics, how to make it part of the record so it holds up in court, and preserving your case when the evidence is alive.
NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: Building a successful animal management program from the ground up is challenging at the best of times but throw in the mix a low socio-economic area, poor trust in AMOs, limited resources, and a long history of high enforcement. Understanding the needs of a community, difficulties in an area as well as taking a multi-agency approach to a pilot animal management program has lead to amazing success for a regional Local Government in Australia. Gaining the trust of the community became the key to creating a successful working relationship.
