This calendar is a listing of webinars, other learning opportunities, online meetings and other upcoming national events related to animal sheltering and related areas of interest.
Only some of these events are produced by the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program. Most are being created and sponsored by other groups and agencies. Being listed here does not mean that we have reviewed the material contained. We are trying to provide a variety of resources to hopefully help make your life a little easier. For additional information on any of these items before or after the event please contact the organizer directly (listed in the item description).
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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). Apply by 3/28/22!
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.
PPG Presents (fee applies): We are going to explore the scientific evidence for those statements that we hold so dear, learn new concepts and bust those training myths!
Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge and HASS Present: In this free virtual conference, we’ve got proven solutions and data-driven protocols delivered to you in straightforward, streamlined modules for all levels of animal shelter professionals. We want your organizations to be supported as you learn better dog management, getting more live outcomes, shortening lengths of stay, and creating safer shelters.
The AAWA Presents: Join a moderated discussion with Greater Good Charities' Noah Horton, Chief Operating Officer, and Denise Bash, VP of Pet Programs, Disaster Response, about their current efforts to assist Ukrainian refugees and their pets.
EveryCat Health Foundation Presents: This one-hour webinar will explain the science behind PCR technology and how it is helping revolutionize animal welfare by empowering veterinary professionals with fast, affordable diagnostic solutions for a wide variety of animal health issues.
Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge and HASS Present: In this free virtual conference, we’ve got proven solutions and data-driven protocols delivered to you in straightforward, streamlined modules for all levels of animal shelter professionals. We want your organizations to be supported as you learn better dog management, getting more live outcomes, shortening lengths of stay, and creating safer shelters.
Humane Network Presents: This four-session webinar series presented by Kelley Bollen, MS, CABC, is specifically designed for staff at animal shelters, rescues, and nonprofit veterinary clinics, and will cover reading dog and cat body language and safe humane handling; stress recognition and reduction in the shelter; enrichment for shelter dogs and cats; how animals learn and training dogs and cats in the shelter.
The AAWA Presents: Attendees will learn about the development of the Penn Vet Quality of Life Tool, the contents of the assessment, and the data produced by the app, including the quality-of-life scores and figures. The talk will include preliminary data about the tool’s use in animal shelters and discuss future plans for the app.
Best Friends Presents: This panel webinar will share real world, tangible content and experiences shelter leaders can use, to positively effect change within your organization, and create a culture that sustains lifesaving programmatic changes.
ACVB Presents: Sometimes puppies and kittens go through a “difficult” developmental period and can exhibit behavioral problems. Can something be done to prevent this occurrence? What should we expect as our adolescent dogs and cats go through the life stages after socialization? This webinar will answer these questions and more!
California for All Animals Presents: Join California for All Animals! All municipal shelters and private shelters with a municipal contract to shelter animals in California are eligible to apply for a Welcome Grant; the application deadline is March 31, 2022.
This 4 session VIRTUAL workshop designed for all levels of shelter staff will cover advice to resolve common dog and cat behavior problems to prevent…
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.
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. Learn what TNR is and why it works.
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.
CVMA Presents (fee applies): This presentation aims to provide the veterinarian with talking points for a welfare-centered communication with owners of cats with scratching problems, hopefully eliminating the need for the very controversial surgical approach. We will address the importance of cats performing normal behaviors, such as appropriate opportunities to scratch, and will explore humane solutions that are based in understanding the nature of this behavior.
Humane Network Presents: This four-session webinar series presented by Kelley Bollen, MS, CABC, is specifically designed for staff at animal shelters, rescues, and nonprofit veterinary clinics, and will cover reading dog and cat body language and safe humane handling; stress recognition and reduction in the shelter; enrichment for shelter dogs and cats; how animals learn and training dogs and cats in the shelter.
Maddie's Fund Presents: Please join us for 4 weekly, info-packed meetings with time for your questions. There will be 20-minute presentations followed by 20 minutes for Q+A.
This 4 session VIRTUAL workshop designed for all levels of shelter staff will cover advice to resolve common dog and cat behavior problems to prevent…
Karen Pryor Academy Presents: Join Ken Ramirez, KPCT’s Chief Training Officer, for a free virtual event on Thursday, April 7, at 12:00 pm (PT). The episode will include real-time training demos, audience Q & A, and so much more!
Best Friends Presents: This webinar will discuss the principles of feline URTD management in the shelter setting, including population management, prevention strategies (vaccination, biosecurity, stress reduction), and treatment of the individual patient. Register by 4/6.
GoodPup Presents: In this webinar we'll explore how to make the transition of moving from the rescue environment to a home as smooth as possible using management tools and positive reinforcement strategies.
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.
Community Cats Podcast Presents (fee applies): Join Community Cats Podcast for our annual Online Behavior Day, featuring some of the animal welfare industry’s most trusted authorities on feline behavior who will offer a variety of workshops on cat behavior concerns, from vet visits and enrichment to litter box and multi-cat household issues.
UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine Presents (fee applies): In Part 2, Feline Diabetes: The Road to Remission, Dr. Gilor will discuss the recent developments in feline diabetes, including how tot recognize and approach diabetic remission, selecting the best diet for feline patients, understanding what insulin injections or oral glucose medications are available, and more.
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.
Registration NOW OPEN. visit: www.mindfulvetmed.com/coursecalendar This session will include brief practices as well as an overview of mindfulness as it relates to the animal welfare field.…
CAWFC Presents: The California Animal Welfare Funders Collaborative is excited to offer another year of funding to animal services agencies across California. Projects should propose innovative ideas in improving animal welfare, preserving human-animal connections, lifesaving, or field services programs.
Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge Presents: In this webinar, Drs. Cindy Karsten and Chumkee Aziz will guide you through the framework that allows you to remove decision fatigue and get animals where they need to be—or help them right where they are.
Best Friends Presents: Provide real world, tangible management and training techniques for shelter staff, volunteers, and dog owners to gain a better understanding of canine reactivity, where it stems from, and why it is a common behavioral challenge in virtually all shelters.
Maddie's Fund Presents: Please join us for 4 weekly, info-packed meetings with time for your questions. There will be 20-minute presentations followed by 20 minutes for Q+A.
Humane Network Presents: This four-session webinar series presented by Kelley Bollen, MS, CABC, is specifically designed for staff at animal shelters, rescues, and nonprofit veterinary clinics, and will cover reading dog and cat body language and safe humane handling; stress recognition and reduction in the shelter; enrichment for shelter dogs and cats; how animals learn and training dogs and cats in the shelter.
The AAWA Presents: What are the best places to find qualified candidates? Are your job postings marketing pieces, or are you just copying and pasting your JDs? Like some simple screening and interviewing techniques to help you find the right fit? In this session, we will dive deep into the best ways for maximizing your up-front candidate sourcing and recruiting efforts.
NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: Getting calls from the public about opossums stuck in garbage cans? Foxes denning under sheds or porches? Woodchucks nibbling in the garden? Learn how to give simple tips and instructions to the public over the phone (without your having to dispatch an officer!) so that they can solve conflicts with wildlife in an effective, humane, and long-term manner.
CVMA Presents (fee applies): This presentation aims to provide the veterinarian with talking points for a welfare-centered communication with owners of cats with scratching problems, hopefully eliminating the need for the very controversial surgical approach. We will address the importance of cats performing normal behaviors, such as appropriate opportunities to scratch, and will explore humane solutions that are based in understanding the nature of this behavior.
VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary, 1-hour, VETgirl–Zoetis webinar, Dr. Robert Gribble, DVM, CVPM explores effective strategies for getting your team engaged in protocol implementation.
HSVMA Presents: How can a consumer feel confident that they will find a healthy, long-lived dog who will make a behaviorally sound pet? How do we convince clients to be patient and understand they shouldn’t order puppies online as if they were sweaters? These are difficult and controversial questions; this webinar is just the beginning of the conversation.
This 4 session VIRTUAL workshop designed for all levels of shelter staff will cover advice to resolve common dog and cat behavior problems to prevent…
FDSA Presents (fee applies): This webinar will provide plenty of video examples of creative training, along with ideas to help you come up with your own creative training plans. You can learn to be more creative.
Think Anesthesia Presents: This live, interactive webinar reviews the ideal characteristics of the anesthetic induction. Learn ways to optimizing a stress free, anesthetic induction, how to secure a patent airway and review medications used for veterinary anesthetic inductions.
Registration NOW OPEN. visit: www.mindfulvetmed.com/coursecalendar This session will include brief practices as well as an overview of mindfulness as it relates to the animal welfare field.…
CalAnimals Presents: Join us as DocuPet provides a fun and creative look at what they call the "Pet Licensing Report Card."
HSUS Presents (fee applies): We are excited to host our first-ever hybrid experience April 19-22, 2022, in Orlando, Florida, at the Orlando World Center Marriott. Animal Care Expo 2022 will feature nearly 100 professional development sessions in-person and select livestreamed sessions for a virtual audience.
VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary, 1-hour VETgirl–Zoetis webinar, Dr. Ashley Bourgeois, DACVD reviews the many reasons dogs can be itchy. After all, it’s hard to differentiate between the different allergies, especially when more than one type is present.
HSUS Presents (fee applies): We are excited to host our first-ever hybrid experience April 19-22, 2022, in Orlando, Florida, at the Orlando World Center Marriott. Animal Care Expo 2022 will feature nearly 100 professional development sessions in-person and select livestreamed sessions for a virtual audience.
Maddie's Fund Presents: Please join us for 4 weekly, info-packed meetings with time for your questions. There will be 20-minute presentations followed by 20 minutes for Q+A.
HSUS Presents (fee applies): We are excited to host our first-ever hybrid experience April 19-22, 2022, in Orlando, Florida, at the Orlando World Center Marriott. Animal Care Expo 2022 will feature nearly 100 professional development sessions in-person and select livestreamed sessions for a virtual audience.
Dog iBox Presents (fee applies): This webinar will show how distance can be used as a reinforcer to shape friendly behaviors that replace fearful or aggressive behaviors.
CalAnimals Presents: Reducing barriers to adoption and ensuring our staff are properly trained in adoption counseling is critically important. In this webinar, attendees will learn why an open adoption policy is the best policy and how to facilitate conversations with adopters to find the best match for both pets and people.
This 4 session VIRTUAL workshop designed for all levels of shelter staff will cover advice to resolve common dog and cat behavior problems to prevent…
National Kitten Coalition Presents: Join Health and Safety Coach, Arden Moore, and learn about first-aid tips just for cats and kittens!
The Bridge Club Presents: A candid discussion answering all the questions about removing the stigma, what happens in your first appointment and finding the right therapist.
HSUS Presents (fee applies): We are excited to host our first-ever hybrid experience April 19-22, 2022, in Orlando, Florida, at the Orlando World Center Marriott. Animal Care Expo 2022 will feature nearly 100 professional development sessions in-person and select livestreamed sessions for a virtual audience.
PPG Presents (fee applies): This session will focus on introduction methods and behavior modification protocols that are realistic for resource-thin shelter and rescue organizations, who may not have the luxury of qualified behavior specialists to perform dedicated and time-consuming desensitization and counterconditioning procedures.
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.
Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge Presents: In this webinar, Drs. Cindi Delany and Kate Hurley will outline strategies for streamlining tasks, reducing length of stay, capturing lost resources, and making the most of the resources you have.
VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary, 30-minute, YouTube LIVE VETgirl webinar, Dr. Shelby Reinstein, DACVO reviews the types and causes of keratoconjunctivitis sicca in dogs. Tune in to discover how to recognize and successfully treat those dry eyes.
Network for Good Presents: Learn how to get more of the right things done in this time blocking and energy management workshop!
Maddie's Fund Presents: Please join us for 4 weekly, info-packed meetings with time for your questions. There will be 20-minute presentations followed by 20 minutes for Q+A.
The AAWA Presents: If you are among the many shelters who climb “kitten mountain” every year, and see neonatal/pediatric puppies as well, this is the webinar for you! This interactive webinar will give participants actionable steps to help improve the care provided to neonatal/infant puppies and kittens in their shelter's care.
This 4 session VIRTUAL workshop designed for all levels of shelter staff will cover advice to resolve common dog and cat behavior problems to prevent…
VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary, 1-hour VETgirl–Elanco practice management webinar, Dr. Mary Ann Vande Linde discusses building the foundation of effective team communication. Tune in to learn techniques to build client trust with your veterinary health care team.
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.
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