Shelter Learniverse and Industry-Wide Calendar

National Kitten Coalition Presents: The holidays are an exciting time of the year but some traditions can pose risks to your pets. Join us in a presentation highlighting potential safety hazards and practical ways to keep your kittens safe this holiday season!

Network for Good Presents: In this webinar, Megan Amundson will walk you through the top reasons donors leave (or stay with) nonprofit organizations. Learn how you can keep more of the donors you’ve already inspired to donate to you to build a stronger fundraising program. And you’ll learn some key actions you can take today to show your donors the love they’re looking for.

Getting 2 Zero Presents: New ideas and methods regarding how we deal with homeless animals are starting to emerge with the focus moving away from traditional style shelters and towards a community, fostercentric based system. Learn how rescue, foster and Not for Profit groups can improve their potential life-saving operations.

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!

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!

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

NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Present: This webinar will talk about the history of the Community Cat Program at the Animal Welfare League of Arlington (AWLA) in Arlington, Virginia including where we were, where we are now, and how we got there. We will discuss how to garner successful support and buy-in for a jurisdiction-wide program, how to resolve the most common community cat conflicts, and what supportive needs arise during a TNR program.

VETGirl Presents (fee applies for non-members): In this VETgirl practice management webinar, Amy Newfield, CVT, VTS (ECC) discusses how to effectively manage through difficult client conversations. In this lecture, learn how to deal with the types of difficult clients and how to handle each one.

Fear Free Presents: In this webinar, Tony Buffington, DVM, PhD Clinical Professor UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, will remind participants “who cats are” and why they are particularly prone to fear in confined situations (i.e., hospitals, shelters, homes, etc.).

VETGirl Presents (fee applies for non-members): In this VETgirl leadership webinar, Dr. Peter Weinstein, MBA reviews how to be a leader and build your veterinary team to promote veterinary practice success. In this lecture, learn the differences between leaders and managers and how to identify your personal strengths and weaknesses. Find out why a team is the key to success, and how leaders can bring that team together to ultimate success.

Dogs Playing for Life Presents: While this webinar can be attended as a standalone course, we will build on our Fancy Footwork approach to handling and training to offer practical training, handling, and safety solutions to on-leash reactivity for dogs living in shelters.

Dog iBox Presents (fee applies): This presentation will dive deep into which aspects of this human-directed aggression pattern may be considered “normal” and which may have underlying influences of medical diagnoses or emotional disorders, before taking an even closer look at management and behavior modification strategies that can be used for the prevention of this pattern as well as for intervention.

FDSA Presents (fee applies): We will be looking at the differences between relaxation and anticipation. Understanding where these are helpful and where they can be counter productive. The webinar will contain both theory and video on training different release cues.

Best Friends Presents: Register to receive access via email to this exclusive Best Friends National Conference session on December 9. In this session, we discuss how to revamp your organization’s operations to safely reduce a pet’s stay, whether that pet is highly adoptable, has medical or behavioral challenges, or is returned to the field.

Think Anesthesia Presents: Michele Barletta, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVAA will discuss the physiological processes of transduction, transmission, modulation, and perception, as well as the process and consequences of peripheral and central sensitization. The importance of the use of available pain scoring systems to aid in the recognition of pain and assessment of response to therapy will be discussed.

UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine Presents (fee applies): In this session the instructors will discuss the recent developments regarding the pathophysiology and management of canine epilepsy, including classifications of seizures, appropriate drugs for seizure management, and more.

VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary VETgirl–PetDx webinar, Dr. Andi Flory, DACVIM (Oncology) reviews how a blood test can detect cancer in dogs. The term “liquid biopsy” broadly refers to the sampling and analysis of analytes from biological fluids, including blood. Tune in to find out more about this cutting-edge diagnostic approach that can be added to your arsenal for the detection and characterization of cancer.

Fear Free Presents: After the webinar, attendees will understand the concept of caregiver burden and the impact that has on our clients, our patients, and our own mental health. Specific examples will be given on ways to help pet parents and veterinary teams guide reduction of fear, anxiety, and stress at home to lessen the strain on the human-animal bond.

Network for Good Presents: Writing emails can be difficult. Writing emails that stand out in the sea of your donors’ inboxes is even harder, especially when you’re deep in the trenches of year-end! In this webinar, you’ll learn 9 steps to craft a highly effective email appeal.

Million Cat Challenge and Maddie’s Fund Present: In 2020, the AAFP released new retrovirus testing guidelines that recommend one quality point of care test then moving forward with a live-outcome pathway. Join Monica Frenden-Tarant and Dr. Julie Levy as they break down the latest guidelines and tell you everything you need to know about testing for feline leukemia.

ASPCAPro Presents: Join us to learn how to keep your team’s culture healthy and forward-focused. We’ll dig into the keys to employee satisfaction and engagement, articulating purpose, and cultivating space for people to thrive.

HSVMA Presents: Join Dr. Tony Bartels (a leading authority on U.S. veterinary student debt) for this special Climbing Mt. Debt session to see if you are doing all you can as a non-profit employee veterinarian or support professional to save money and reduce your student debt stress.  Special guest Heather Schrader, RVT, MCJ will also join to share how she received forgiveness under the Temporary Expanded PSLF program! Heather is the Program Manager of Student Outreach for HSVMA.

ACVB Presents (fee applies): This lecture will delve into the most common chief complaints to general practitioners that present behaviorally but are not truly behavioral in origin. We will then discuss the appropriate diagnostic steps to take and at which point to refer to a veterinary behaviorist, if at all. We will end with an applied discussion on a real-life pica case!

VETGirl Presents (fee applies for non-members): In this VETgirl veterinary technician webinar, Amy Newfield, CVT, MS, VTS (ECC) reviews Acute Traumatic Coagulopathy (ATC) vs. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC). Tune in to learn the differences between ATC and DIC, what the clinical signs are, clinicopathologic findings between the two, and the general approach to treatment.

Dogs Playing for Life Presents: At Dogs Playing for Life’s Stranger Danger webinar, hosted by Aimee Sadler, CEO and Founder of DPFL, you will learn how to work with dogs that are wary of strangers by building their confidence and helping them develop new skills which will enable them to meet new people (and potential adopters) happily and successfully!

FDSA Presents (fee applies): This webinar is intended to provide advice, interventions, and skills for individuals working with reactive or overexcited dogs. “The circle method of Loose Leash Walking” will be used to help the behavior and emotional state of reactive and over-aroused dogs by allowing them to adjust to their environment, reconnect with their handlers, and become more emotionally comfortable in the presence of specific triggers.

HASS Presents: Katherine Shenar, executive vice president for The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement, and Shelly Moore, President and CEO for Humane Society of Charlotte, North Carolina, will teach you how to identify common ground and put aside differences to accomplish more collectively than your organization could individually.

Best Friends Presents: This session will discuss why some outdoor cats are sociable and the importance of returning these community cats to their outdoor homes. You’ll be given the tools you need to advocate for change at your local shelter.

VETGirl Presents (fee applies for non-members): In this VETgirl anesthesia webinar, Dr. Jane Quandt, DACVAA, DACVECC reviews the when, the where, and what to do about anesthesia complications. What is the time period where it is most likely? In this webinar, she will review how to appropriately monitor for and prevent anesthesia complications.

VETGirl Presents: Tune in to let the healing begin! In this complimentary VETgirl–Zoetis webinar, Dr. Mark E. Epstein, DABVP reviews pain pathophysiology with a focus on pathways and targets new and emerging analgesic therapeutics.

VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary VETgirl–Blue Buffalo webinar, Dr. Joseph J. Wakshlag, PhD, DACVN, DACVSMR reviews gastrointestinal maladies, including inflammatory bowel disorders, chronic colitis and gastritis. Tune in to tailor your dietary approach (including novel proteins, hydrolyzed diets, and home-prepared diets) to ameliorate the clinical signs and treat the underlying disease.

VIN/VSPN Presents (free for VIN members): Jennifer Woolf, DVM, MS, presents this week’s Tuesday Topic, Identifying Signs of Animal Abuse, Part 2.

Network for Good Presents: In this webinar, you’ll uncover hidden growth blockers and walk away with big ideas and practical next steps for rapidly growing your awareness, audience size, and fundraising results.

Best Friends Presents: This session will cover social media basics, including what channels you should join, what makes posts effective and what times you should post to reach your best engagement rates. Emily Tolliver will show you how to engage your staff and volunteers to share content and how to organize that content into a comprehensive social strategy.

Network for Good Presents: Whether you’re new to mindfulness and meditation, a skeptic, a lifelong practitioner, or somewhere in between, join us for an informal meditation session. We’ll do a brief practice together and talk about what mindfulness is (and isn’t) and how it can help combat the stressors of living in a hyperconnected world as we close out the year-end giving season.

Best Friends Presents: In this session, we’ll take a deep dive into the Best Friends national dataset, providing attendees with key insights on progress toward achieving no-kill nationwide and, most important, ways that shelters and rescue groups can get involved and save more lives.