Shelter Learniverse and Industry-Wide Calendar

VETGirl Presents: Join us for a complimentary, 30-minute VETgirl – Merck Animal Health YouTube LIVE event, where Dr. Carol Reinero, DVM, PhD, DACVIM reviews Canine Infectious Respiratory Disease (CIRD), providing practical clinical guidelines helpful in disease management.

PPG Presents (fee applies): This webinar is for the dog trainer, shelter worker, rescue worker, groomer, or animal control officer. When someone calls with a “my dog is aggressive/ has bitten etc” call and that isn’t your “lane” how do we ethically and effectively get those owners seeking help to proper professionals in a quick, informative, and safe way?

VETGirl Presents: In this VETgirl–Zoetis veterinary CE webinar, where Dr. Lisa Radosta, DACVB reviews what’s new with noise phobia. Noise phobia affects almost 50% of the dogs in the United States. Noise phobia is the behavioral chameleon masquerading as generalized anxiety, inappropriate elimination and global fear. Join us to learn the latest research, treatments and patient presentations.

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): Shor-line has collaborated with many professionals in the Shelter Design and Construction phases of new facility builds or remodel project.  We will get some advice from a few of these experts to help you begin your project knowing that the end in mind is exactly what you want for your Business Success.

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): The shelter can inherently limit an animal’s ability to make choices.  How an animal performs in the shelter-setting can be greatly influenced by their collective experiences while in your care, beginning as soon as they walk through your doors.  How can we change our behavior to enable more choice for the animals in our care?  Join Allison Hartlage, KPA-CTP, CBCC-KA, CTC, CNWI and Manager of Animal Training and Behavior at the Humane Society of Boulder Valley, to explore this important topic.

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): This workshop will discuss how Dallas Animal Services manages high-volume intake by being strategic. You will learn how the team changed the process from beginning to end to improve efficiencies and reduce cross-contamination as well as how they utilize opportunities to automate the process to avoid sticking points.

Community Cats Podcast Presents (small fee applies): Are you ready to be part of the solution for feral and stray cats in your neighborhood? Learn what TNR is, why it works, and how to get started. Our expert instructors will teach you the best practices for Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) and colony management.

VETGirl Presents: Join us for a complimentary VETgirl–Hill’s Pet Nutrition webinar, where Dr. Nicole Smee, MS, DACVIM reviews a case-based approach to nutrition using the AAHA nutritional assessment guidelines. This webinar will bring to light some of the more recent issues concerning nutrition and disease in our companion animal.

Massachusetts Animal Coalition Presents: In this webinar with Kristen Hassen, learn about the different components of HASS, how these components work to break down barriers making adoption, fostering, vet care, etc. accessible to all communities and how you can easily implement them in your organization, and more.

EveryCat Health Foundation Presents: This presentation will focus on newer shelter medicine approaches to URI – prevention strategies that have succeeded to the point that many shelters no longer have a “URI problem”; when to isolate affected cats and when that’s not needed; when diagnostic tests are needed and which ones are useful; when to treat and with what; and how to manage a newly adopted cat that is sneezing.

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): When trying to save animals’ lives, it’s important to do more in less time.  If building a time machine isn’t an option for you, why not take advantage of the greatest apps and tools out there?  With so many to choose from, finding the ones that work in animal welfare can be a daunting task.  In this session, you’ll get to see the best options available that are extremely low cost or free.

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): Whether you’re a small rescue group or a huge municipal shelter, this session will provide you with tangible strategies to improve your social media and animal promotional efforts in a time when virtual communications could not be more important. Speakers have experience in non-profit and municipal shelters with intakes ranging from 2,000 to 40,000 pets a year, in addition to serving on the boards of non-shelter animal welfare organizations.

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): In this session we will discuss the aspects of data collection, management and analysis.  We will explore making sense of the data available to us, how we put information in context and the value of keeping things simple.  We will also discuss the potential for, and benefit of, automating data collection and analysis.

PPG Presents (fee applies): Find out why your dog whines, barks or lunges at other animals or people and learn ways to help him or her become less reactive. Is your dog really aggressive or scared? This webinar discusses the underlying issues that cause our dogs to act out and how we can identify them.

Fear Free Presents: In this webinar, Kenneth M. Martin, DVM, DACVB and Debbie Martin, CPDT-KA, KPA CTP, LVT, VTS (Behavior), will provide you with 5 tips to give new pet owners so they can start the relationship off on the right paw, facilitate a strong bond, and keep pets in the home and coming back to your veterinary clinic.

The AAWA Presents: We’ll discuss how to calculate a goal and fit a solution to your shelter’s needs. Learn about the 3 types of medical care that communities can start providing to families now in an effort to decrease shelter surrender and increase reclaim of pets with inaccessible medical needs.

HSVMA Presents: While there has been a little more education and information provided to veterinary professionals on how to support animal owners through their grief, very little attention is paid to the grief veterinary professionals experience themselves. This program covers grief reactions related to the primary and secondary losses veterinary professionals experience every day.

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): In this workshop, learn the secrets to achieving customer service excellence, from what to say and how to say it to body language techniques that can help you build quick rapport with the people you serve every day. This is a fun and engaging workshop that shows staff the many ways to engage people in positive ways.

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): If you know the basics of customer service and want more advanced techniques and strategies to handle difficult people, this workshop is for you. During this session, you’ll learn more about body language, word choice and tone; language techniques, like agreement frames and reframing, that can help people see things more positively; and special strategies on how to manage and deal with difficult people, whether they be clients or co-workers.

ASPCAPro Presents: Quickly recognizing, diagnosing, and treating toxic exposures in dogs and cats is an essential part of clinic operations, but what can be done when a toxin is unknown? In this presentation we’ll discuss which questions to ask pet owners in a possible unknown toxin exposure. We’ll also cover the available diagnostics for identifying potential toxins, decontamination of a poisoned patient, and treatment options.

CalAnimals Presents: With pet license compliance below 20% across California, we know we can do better. Let’s make pet licensing easy, make the rules clear and consistent, and find common ways to communicate the importance and value of registration. All of this with the goal of attracting and engaging more pet owners, and making pet licensing a common, sharable experience for all Californians.

Anesthetic recoveries are ideally smooth and rapid, with patients regaining consciousness and ambulation, and maintaining physiological homeostasis. In reality, the recovery period is associated with a high rate of complications. This session will outline how the preceding phases of anesthesia affect recovery quality, with guidelines for mitigating the risk of, recognizing, and managing rough and prolonged recoveries.

Fear is an emotion and, as such, subject to respondent conditioning. Therefore, trying to solve fear related problems by focusing solely on modifying the behavior may be pointless. Fear related problems need a respondent as well as an operant approach. Fear learning is a type of emotional learning that is quite persistent for various reasons: […]

Are prairie dog colonies causing conflicts in your community? Or are you looking for the best way to preserve populations of this keystone species? Either way, join us for a free webinar, in which we will share the best methods (shaped from our years of experience in the field!) for coexisting with prairie dogs and […]

In prosecuting animal cruelty offenses, success largely depends on the prosecutor’s witnesses testifying confidently and competently. (After all, our victims cannot take the stand for themselves!) Unfortunately, testifying in trial is not a natural-born skill, and individuals involved in the animal welfare community—animal service, veterinarians, and animal shelter staff—do not have nearly enough opportunities to […]

Fear Free Presents: In this webinar presented by Natalie Marks, DVM, CVJ, you will learn about the variables that place veterinarians at high risk for mental health challenges and how to assess your own wellbeing.

PPG Presents (fee applies): Puppy Essentials – Your Virtual and In-Person Guide to Early Socialization and Development – is a fun, interactive, training resource from DogNostics Education that can be used virtually to guide puppy owners through the first essential lessons.

Puppy Essentials – Your Virtual and In-Person Guide to Early Socialization and Development – is a fun, interactive, training resource from DogNostics Education that can be used virtually to guide puppy owners through the first essential lessons. The focus of Puppy Essentials is socialization to situations, people, objects and other puppies; developing bite inhibition; preventing […]

VETGirl Presents (fee applies for non-members): Dr. Peter Weinstein, DVM, MBA reviews how to lead during a crisis. Learn what leadership skills are required to lead during rough waters and how to work on them all the time even when things are going well.

Getting 2 Zero Presents: In this presentation, Dr. Sara Pizano will outline the foundational elements for a successful animal welfare program in every community that starts by keeping pets from entering the shelter. Topics from public policy and community initiatives to shelter population management and live outcome programs will be discussed.

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): Not getting the response you want from certain dogs? A simple change of posture or position may be all you need. Following common canine social cues is also important, and shelter personnel and rescue volunteers who know them are in a good position to bring out the best in their dogs.

ASPCAPro Presents: Join the ASPCA Learning Lab and colleagues from the field as they discuss tips and tricks of the trade on how your team can best support our youngest feline friends. During this session, you’ll also have an opportunity to have your questions answered via a live Q&A.

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): In a shelter setting, cytology can be used to guide treatment, surgical planning, and any special adoption considerations. In this session, we will review specimen collection, slide preparation, and microscopic evaluation.

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): This presentation will review and provide updates on the risk factors, pathogenesis, clinical disease, and epidemiology of infectious diseases in animal sheltering settings, with an emphasis on prevention of disease. We will focus on updates in the management of dermatophytosis, retroviruses, and feline URI.

MCC and Maddie’s Fund Present: An all-star panel will give answers to the top ten questions you receive about TNR, SNR, returning cats, and let us know how to message community cat program alignment with our universally-held goal of managing feline populations.

Community Cats Podcast Presents: Trying to catch the last cat in your colony who isn’t fixed? Got a wily feral who just won’t go into a box trap, no matter how much you spend on roasted chicken? How about catching a litter of kittens all at once—with their mom? All these tough trapping situations and more can be solved if you know how to use a drop trap! Join Neighborhood Cats, co-designers of the first commercially available drop trap, as they discuss how to use this invaluable tool. Plus tips and tricks for advanced drop trappers, too.

VDOS Presents (fee applies): This VDOS webinar will review local and regional anesthesia/analgesia for dental and oral surgical procedures in dogs and cats. Suitable local anesthetics and needed equipment will be discussed. Techniques for commonly performed dental nerve blocks (including maxillary, infraorbital, major palatine, inferior alveolar, and middle mental) will be described step-by-step.

VDOS Presents (fee applies): Frustrated about resorbing roots and ankylosed teeth? What about refractory oral inflammation that cannot be controlled? We understand your frustration, but there is help! Let us show you how we do it!

VETGirl Presents (fee applies): Dr. Mike Barletta, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVAA reviews the mechanism of action, doses, and the duration of action of drugs used to premedicate our canine and feline patients. Brush up on the “why” behind certain drugs including phenothiazines, alpha-2 agonists, opioids, and benzodiazepines!

Dog iBox Presents (fee applies): Understanding when to recommend additional diagnostics and when to recommend primary behavior treatment is a valuable skill to have in your tool kit! This presentation will cover common conditions that may appear to be behavioral in origin, when in fact, they may be occurring due to an underlying medical concern.

VDOS Presents (fee applies): Do you struggle removing a canine or carnassial tooth? What about root remnants and ankylosed teeth in cats? No worries, here you learn all the tricks you need for safe and complete extraction of teeth!

ASPCAPro Presents: Looking for ways to build or improve local networks to move at-risk animals within your community, region, and the northern tier states? Join us as we engage with relocation expert Karen Walsh of the ASPCA, and Chris Roy, who joins us from Doobert, during this interactive Q&A session. Refresh your understanding of transport and relocation best practices, along with tips for connecting with potential relocation partners. 

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): In this presentation, you will learn about the complex, fascinating way we think about intake and how we can revolutionize animal shelters, animal control services and rescue groups, just by digging deeper into how we track the reasons for intake and how better addressing the complexity of animal intakes might lead to better, faster outcomes.

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): In this hour-long interactive workshop, ASPCA Senior Director of Strategic and Executive Communications Joel Schwartzberg will show you how to enhance your points, presence, and impact from the other side of the screen.

CalAnimals Presents: Join Gina Knepp, a leading expert in lost animal reunification, as she leads a panel discussion with shelter directors across the country, showcasing the tremendous strides that have been made getting lost pets back home where they belong.

VDOS Presents (fee applies): Do you struggle removing root remnants? Do you know how to close an oronasal fistula? You used too much force and fractured the mandible? No worries, here you learn how to manage tooth extraction complications!

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): A Governing Board – one that provides the leadership of the organization, that sets direction and policy, that provides financial oversight and ensures adequate resources to expenditures. A good Governing Board is your way to freedom and a life. Come learn how to give up the reins and ride your non-profit into a successful future.

VDOS Presents (fee applies): This VDOS webinar will review normal oral structures that may be confused as abnormalities and perioperative complications that can occur during dental and oral surgical procedures, including neurological deficits, tracheal injury, oral edema, orbital injury, trigeminocardiac reflex, iatrogenic lingual trauma, and vomiting and regurgitation.