Shelter Learniverse and Industry-Wide Calendar

ASPCA Cornell Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Present: Online Shelter Medicine Conference – FREE. To bring you the critical, timely information you need in a safe way, this year’s conference will take place virtually from July 11-12, 2020, and registration fees will be waived. Featuring twelve free workshops in two tracks—medical and operations—the 2020 ASPCA® Cornell Maddie’s® Shelter Medicine Conference is a unique educational opportunity for veterinarians and other animal welfare professionals to learn from our field of highly regarded speakers.

Maddie’s Fund Presents: Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, animal shelter workers, volunteers and animal welfare leaders from across the country have been meeting every Monday morning at 7am PT/10am ET to discuss protocols, ideas, obstacles they’re facing and more.

UC Davis KSMP Presents: Our weekly California animal shelters call – CASCAR. We just got off the phone from the group planning session for our upcoming CASCAR calls and we’re really looking forward to our time together on Tuesday! Jose Ocano and Jyothi Robertson will be joining us again for a two-parter this Tuesday, July 14th, and the following Tuesday, July 21st, to dive deeper into applying a racial and social justice lens both within our organizations and to the work that we do.

TechSoup Presents: Donating, volunteering, and being involved in your community is for everyone, including those with disabilities. Inaccessible websites keep 15 percent of the population from finding you and your work online. That’s millions of potential patrons, volunteers, ambassadors, and even future donors who might not be able to use your website due to small but significant errors.

UW-Madison and UC Davis Shelter Medicine Programs Present: Weekly National Shelter Medicine Rounds. We will be holding rounds 7/14 and continuing discussion from last week surrounding shelter medicine educators tactics during this time. We welcome others to come prepared to informally share more about their altered teaching models.

National Kitten Coalition Presents: Get the down and dirty basics about diarrhea in kittens. Understand the causes, know what you can do to provide supportive care, and learn about treatment options to address a variety of diarrhea causes. As always, the webinar will include a wealth of information, and there will also be time for Q & A.

NACA/Justine Clearinghouse/HSUS Present: Preparing for a large-scale animal cruelty seizure provides exceptional challenges and can be daunting for any agency. This webinar will briefly review how to prepare for, and execute, one of these cases, from case-building through prosecution. Specifically, it will cover how to prepare for a case involving a significant number of animals, with a focus on engaging key stakeholders and securing critical physical/personnel resources. The presentation will discuss evidence documentation and sentencing considerations, unique to large-scale cases.

Alley Cat Allies Presents: Learn the basics of Trap-Neuter-Return with our Helping Cats in Your Community webinar. We’ve put together this resource for you to learn directly from our expert staff how you can improve cats’ lives. In this 90-minute online demonstration, you’ll learn about feral cats and how to do Trap-Neuter-Return yourself.

Virox Presents: By July, much of the North America’s shelter-in-place restrictions will be lifted and the full impact of the shutdown will come more clearly into view.Veterinary hospitals will try to return to business-as-usual, but a global recession, continued outbreaks of disease, employees unwilling to return to work, cash strapped clients, and lingering fears of social contact may make that an elusive goal. Here is what practices should do to mitigate these five challenges and to reduce their impact on the business and staff.

VDOS Presents (fee applies) – This webinar will review equipment/material needs to perform dental radiography in dogs and cats. Benefits and disadvantages of digital and non-digital options are outlined. Parallel and bisecting angle techniques and the most common positioning mistakes are discussed. Anatomy and pathology on numerous dental radiographs obtained from the upper and lower jaws with various lesions are explained in a systematic fashion.

CalAnimals Presents: For CalAnimals Members – Attendees will learn how to evaluate their organization’s brand and make simple changes to evolve into a community-focused organization with stronger relationships and improved public perception.

Fear Free and Ceva Present: This presentation from Michael Hargrove, DVM, MBA, will demonstrate how becoming a Fear Free Certified Practice has business benefits that extend well beyond improved patient care. Every stakeholder in the practice benefits from Fear Free: the patients, the clients, the staff, and the practice owner.

Chameleon Shelter Software Presents: The #1 most-requested webinar topic from attendees of previous webinars! The Inventory window provides item codes for all chargeable fees and fines, licenses and permits, and also medical procedures, medications and visit types. Inventory basics, item code naming strategy, how to use barcodes, how to clean up inventory, making items obsolete, essential item codes, reporting.

Virox Presents: As restrictions begin to ease, and we begin to review our operating procedures, there is one thing that we all have in common, infection prevention has become everyone’s business. You probably have a lot of questions about how to stay safe and do your part to keep COVID-19 out of your workplace, and you’re not alone.

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 surrender, a behavior perspective on intake and adoptions, canine behavior evaluations and decisions-making, and behavior modification in the shelter. Each session is 90 minutes, from 11am to 12:30pm Pacific Time […]

Karen Pryor Academy Presents: Join Ken Ramirez, KPCT’s Chief Training Officer, for a free hour-long virtual event live from The Ranch on Thursday, July 16 at 12:00 pm (PT). Ken will be joined by Lindsay Wood Brown to talk about classical conditioning and the evolving way modern trainers perceive it.

FDSA Presents: Dog aggression expert, Michael Shikashio CDBC, will explore why dogs may display aggressive behavior when they are near their owner and another dog or human approaches. Mike will discuss how to determine if a dog is truly guarding their person or if there is actually another reason for their behavior. He will also dive into the behavior change techniques that can be used to modify this type of aggression!

AmPa! Presents: The AmPA! weekly Maddie’s Instructor Summit offers shelters and rescues a chance to talk through the most current animal sheltering challenges! Topics will change each week. You’ll join Dr. Ellen Jefferson and the instructors from Maddie’s Lifesaving Academy, as well as other industry leaders, but, more importantly, you’ll be able to engage face to face (digitally!) with people like you. Because not feeling alone makes this work a lot easier.

AmPa! Presents: The AmPA! weekly Maddie’s Instructor Summit offers shelters and rescues a chance to talk through the most current animal sheltering challenges! Topics will change each week. You’ll join Dr. Ellen Jefferson and the instructors from Maddie’s Lifesaving Academy, as well as other industry leaders, but, more importantly, you’ll be able to engage face to face (digitally!) with people like you. Because not feeling alone makes this work a lot easier.

AmPa! Presents: The AmPA! weekly Maddie’s Instructor Summit offers shelters and rescues a chance to talk through the most current animal sheltering challenges! Topics will change each week. You’ll join Dr. Ellen Jefferson and the instructors from Maddie’s Lifesaving Academy, as well as other industry leaders, but, more importantly, you’ll be able to engage face to face (digitally!) with people like you. Because not feeling alone makes this work a lot easier.

Community Cats Podcast Presents: Our first-ever online FeLV Educational Day. We will have a wonderful group of speakers sharing their expertise around Feline Leukemia.

Richmond SPCA Presents (fee applies): Have you ever wondered what a veterinary behaviorist does or why a pet would need to consult with one? Veterinary Behaviorists are licensed veterinarians that have achieved board-certification in the specialty of Veterinary Behavior. Pets of all types and ages may need help and we want you to know when to get them additional behavior assistance. This presentation will be beneficial for veterinarians, trainers, behavior consultants and many other pet professionals who work with a variety of animals.