Shelter Learniverse and Industry-Wide Calendar

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.

Brittany Sundell of Idaho’s West Valley Humane Society joins us to discuss her innovative research measuring the impact of Return to Field efforts in her community. Through collars, cameras, community relationships, and mapping, she and her team are able to mitigate complaints, dispel fear over RTF practices, and even increase community involvement in cat care. […]

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.

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 AmPA! and HASS Staff and 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.

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.

Humane Canada Presents (fee applies): Join us on June 17 to learn from experts from across the continent on the important connection between animals, community members and animal sheltering organizations.

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.

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 […]

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): In this session, we will get into all of the data that we have been collecting for the past several years, share specific insights into the adopter experience and explain trends we are seeing with online pet searching.  We will also share insights into the gaps between perception and reality and how your organization can boost or break your reputation with potential adopters.

Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): A colorful, fun, but basic presentation, based on Cat Genetics “001”, describing the fundamentals of identifying cat colors and patterns.

FDSA Presents (fee applies): This talk will start with a discussion of learned helplessness and what it tells us about the impact of lack of control. I will cover how control (or lack of it) influences brain function and how it can change an animal’s approach to his or her environment in dramatic ways. Finally, we will talk about different ways of increasing control for our dogs. This webinar is great for puppies and adult dogs and for pet owners and professionals alike.

The Ten Movement recently pivoted its focus from owned cats to community cats with its campaign, “Mild Kingdom.” Learn more about this new campaign and how the Ten Movement’s efforts changed the way people think about, behave toward, and interact with community cats in this live webinar.

VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary 1-hour, VETgirl–Zoetis webinar, Dr. Richard T. Marconi, PhD reviews the dangers of tick-borne disease as the prevalence of ticks prevail. Lyme disease and other tick borne disease are a growing health threat. In this presentation, we explore the relationship between wildlife, companion animals and the tick-borne diseases.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss the anatomy of a “normal” dog-dog greeting interaction, as well as common variations you might see depending on breed and general personality. We’ll also talk about how these interactions can go wrong – due to poor social skills, fear/anxiety issues, or previous negative experiences. Video examples will be used to help illustrate the discussion.

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.

PuppyWorks Presents (fee applies): In this new webinar series from Suzanne Clothier, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how temperament affects whether training is or is not successful, depending on the individual dog, handler & task; a dog’s intrinsic/extrinsic motivation, how it affects what it wants to do, can do, struggles to do & how this effects training and homing; and structure for thinking about what to want, need & expect from a dog and how to identify a best match-home for a dog.