Shelter Learniverse and Industry-Wide Calendar

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.

PPG Presents (fee applies): This session will discuss how we can best assess welfare and promising measures found across the scientific literature that can help us better understand dogs’ experiences in the shelter. With these measures in mind, the presenter will describe recent research investigating the effects of housing and social interaction on shelter dog welfare.

Network for Good Presents: In this session, we will explore the big picture, changing donor demographics, the decline in broad-based giving, the impact of virtual events, emphasis on outcomes, and more.

VETGirl Presents (fee applies): Dr. Jane Quandt, MS, DACVAA, DACVECC reviews induction drugs used in veterinary medicine. Induction drugs can be used as solo agents or in combination. Which should you consider using, and are there indications or contraindications for each? What are useful combinations and why would you consider using a combination versus a single drug?

VETGirl Presents: Join us for a complimentary VETgirl–Merck Animal Health CE veterinary technician webinar, where Dr. Justine Lee, DACVECC, DABT reviews the coughing dog. In this webinar, she’ll review infectious etiologies of cough, how to diagnose it, clinicopathologic findings, prevention and overall treatment of the coughing dog.

NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: In this webinar you will learn how to break down your foster program and rebuild it for success, the benefits of opening your foster program up to include all adoptable animals in your shelter and why that variety will help you sustain your program, and more.

VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary VETgirl–Zoetis webinar, Dr. Dana Liska, DACVD reviews how to treat the pruritic patient. Tune in to learn how to manage your allergic dermatitis patients from initial onset of itch and the diagnostic work up, how APOQUEL can be used short-term for inflammation and flares, and long-term for maintenance therapy by sharing key efficacy and updated safety data.

FDSA Presents (fee applies): Join Leslie as she tells you all about her revolutionary Look at That game and her new twist on it, LATTE. One of the most popular Control Unleashed games, LAT teaches dogs to focus around distractions and triggers; LATTE teaches dogs to chill out around those things without the working focus piece.

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: Tune in to learn about the HAB, some science behind it and then how we can improve the existing recommendations on tailoring vaccines to lifestyle into a realm where we tailor it for THAT pet, all while involving the owner in the decision.

PPG Presents (fee applies): In order to make small yet fundamental changes to our dog training we must, at times, be prepared to change some of our plans and our techniques. For this webinar I would like you to open you mind, and remember something that Admiral Grace Hooper once said, “The most damaging phrase in the language is … ‘It’s always been done this way.’” 

HSUS Presents: While perspectives about raccoons will range from charming inhabitant to source of conflict, raccoons will remain a quintessential part of urban living. This webinar will discuss the life cycle and yearly patterns of raccoons, including mating, raising young, and seasonal foraging that will help better equip you to address and resolve the conflicts that people experience with them.

ASPCAPro Presents: Beginning in the Summer of 2020, the ASPCA and AdoptaPet.com asked animal welfare organizations to participate in a survey on how COVID-19 affected their foster programs and community outreach. Organizations answered questions about their preparedness and what they felt would permanently change after the pandemic. This webinar will review the intriguing findings and offer a roundtable discussion.

VETGirl Presents (fee applies): In this VETgirl veterinary technician webinar, Amy Newfield, CVT, VTS (ECC) reviews heatstroke in dogs. Tune in to learn the pathophysiology of heatstroke, initial emergency treatment, the intensive nursing care involved, and the potential complications that can be seen with heatstroke.

Fear Free Presents: While pain management is a vital part of Fear Free, it is even more important for cats who have been declawed. Join us and Robin Downing, DVM, MS, DAAPM, DACVSMR, CVPP, CCRP, founder of The Downing Center for Animal Pain Management, to learn about the trauma of feline toe amputation from the pain, biomechanical, and bioethical perspectives.

VDOS Presents (fee applies): How to determine whether it is TMJ luxation or open-mouth jaw locking? What to do with an avulsed tooth? Any temporary relief for the jaw fracture patient? Know the various dental and oral emergencies and provide emergency care prior to definitive treatment!

VETGirl Presents (fee applies): In this VETgirl practice management CE webinar, Amy Newfield, MS, CVT, VTS (ECC) reviews how to handle emotions during a busy veterinary hospital shift. What tools can you use to handle the stress of the busy hospital and still go home happy? Join us as Amy talks about ways to relax in the middle of chaos.

NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: Now that we have the basics down, let’s look at some examples of “data dashboards” and how they can be used to help drive conversations, gain support, and give leadership a snapshot of how an organization is doing.  In this presentation, we will take the foundations from part one and explore ways of applying them to help move our organizations forward in the best way possible for our people and their pets.

Black DVM Network Presents: Dr. Nelva Bryant is here this month to discuss the need for professional oversite on the many facets of airline travel of animals. During the presentation, she will discuss how having veterinary involvement in the airline industry could benefit animal welfare.

VETGirl Presents (fee applies): In this VETgirl leadership webinar, Dr. Sally Ryan, will review how to manage emotions in the veterinary clinic…because it’s highly stressful! As leaders, it’s important to be able to manage our emotions so that we lead effectively. In this webinar, learn about the physiology of emotions, how emotions can affect our behavior, common behavioral responses to stress, strategies for managing both emotions & behavior and more.

Network for Good Presents: You love animals and your donors do too! In the first session of our cause-area based webinar series, Cindy Harris will share her experience in the animal welfare world to help you tackle what to do next.

NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: Volunteers are the life-blood of many organizations. But how do you find these important members of your team? During this webinar, we’ll discuss simple recruiting ideas that won’t break the budget, why mentoring is important to your cause, what it takes to retain and maintain long-term volunteers and more.

HASS Presents: Join this virtual, face-to-face event featuring some of the prominent leaders in shelter medicine to unpack how you can provide these services by modifying your shelter’s infrastructure and creating community partnerships. We will talk through the External Facing Medical Care toolkits, answer your biggest questions, and discuss what is next for the future of community-centered veterinary services.

Network for Good Presents:

Fear Free Presents: In this webinar, Debra Vey Voda-Hamilton, principal at Hamilton Law and Mediation, PLLC (HLM), will help vets and their staff learn how to appropriately address disagreements and foster mindful reactions to difficult discussions.

VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary VETgirl–Blue Buffalo webinar, Dr. Cheryl London, DVM, PhD, DACVIM reviews some of the recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in dogs.

PPG Presents (fee applies): Join the presenter as she delves into scientific, observational, and anecdotal evidence regarding the impact of owner-compliance and stress on recovery rates and provides a solution to help make wearing of the Elizabethan collar less stressful for the dog, pet guardians and veterinarians.

EveryCat Health Foundation Presents: Join us for a review of the more common external and internal parasites of cats, including an update on prevalence and parasite forecasts from Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC); a discussion of the risk to indoor cats; and how long-acting preventives can increase compliance and protect more pets.

PPG Presents (fee applies): This period of development is likely to be a particularly vulnerable time for dog-owner relationships, and for shaping the long-term behavior of the developing animal. In this session, the presenter will provide an overview of the neurological and behavioural changes that mammals undergo during adolescence, along with highlighting the potential implications.

VETGirl Presents (fee applies): Dr. Michael Jaffe, DVM, MS, CCRP, DACVS will review a common-sense approach to juvenile canine orthopedic disease. Dr. Jaffe will explain orthopedic injuries in juvenile canines, how to diagnose them, and treatment options available. Tune in to learn about elbow dysplasia, OCD, panosteitis, injuries to growth plates, and other common orthopedic diseases seen in young canine patients.

FDSA Presents (fee applies): We hope you’ll join Denise Fenzi for this webinar to find out about the skills and games you can play with your dog to raise and lower arousal. An essential skill for both life and sports!