Shelter Learniverse and Industry-Wide Calendar

Missouri Coalition of Animal Care Organizations Presents: Join us for the Midwest’s only regional conference designed exclusively for animal rescues and shelters! The 2021 Midwest Animal Sheltering Conference will take place at the Stoney Creek Hotel and Conference Center in Columbia, MO on September 10-12, 2021. The conference offers sessions for all levels of engagement while focusing on cutting-edge, lifesaving strategies.

Community Cats Podcast Presents (fee applies): Join us as we explore what “home” means to a kitty, as well as the ways the animal welfare community can help cats find homes, stay in homes, and get back to their homes when they’ve wandered too far from the caretakers that love them.

CVMA Presents (fee applies): The California Licensing Curriculum (CLC) is a 3-day virtual course offering a total of 27 CEU hours designed to meet the requirements of the California Curriculum for qualified veterinarians to obtain a permanent veterinary license in California without taking the state board examination.

CVMA Presents (fee applies): The California Licensing Curriculum (CLC) is a 3-day virtual course offering a total of 27 CEU hours designed to meet the requirements of the California Curriculum for qualified veterinarians to obtain a permanent veterinary license in California without taking the state board examination.

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): The objectives for this webinar will encourage the candidates to think about and address the following: How can we avoid frustration in our training? How can we empower our dogs to commence problem solving? How can we ‘spice up our training’ keeping our students and their dogs wanting more?

CVMA Presents (fee applies): The California Licensing Curriculum (CLC) is a 3-day virtual course offering a total of 27 CEU hours designed to meet the requirements of the California Curriculum for qualified veterinarians to obtain a permanent veterinary license in California without taking the state board examination.

HSUS Presents: Most pet owners and animal care professionals think that traps ( foot-traps/snares/body-grip/cage traps) are a danger for only a few winter months of the year for fur trapping. This workshop will start by defining the dangers that can be out there 24/7/365. We will cover what they look like; where to expect to find them and how to remove your pet or other animals that might become caught, and more.

VETGirl Presents: Join us for a complimentary, 30-minute VETgirl–Merck Animal Health YouTube LIVE event, where Dr. Natalie Marks reviews all you need to know about canine leptospirosis! Tune in to learn what breeds get it, what lab abnormalities are “classic” for it and which ones we might miss, and how to rapidly recognize and treat leptospirosis! Learn all things lepto over lunch!

Maddie’s Fund Presents: In this discussion with Maddie’s Fund Executive Leadership Team member Mary Ippoliti-Smith, Akisha Townsend Eaton shares her story from multiple angles. She speaks of how the work of animal lifesaving and animal protection policy are interwoven and how ultimately all social policy can work together – especially in removing barriers created by systemic bias.

HASS Presents: End of year fundraising is beginning very soon, if it hasn’t already! As your organization gears up to add more kibble to the bag, so you can support more people and pets, get your whole crew on board with your mission.

Humane Canada Presents (fee applies): Join us on September 15 to learn from experts from across the country on the important connection between the global climate change crisis and animal welfare.

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.

Shelters United and Rescue Disinfectants Present: Dr. Sara Pizano has worked with more than 100 shelters all over the country, from small rural facilities to large urban shelters. In this webinar, she’ll walk you through the steps each shelter, whether public or private and regardless of resources, can take to help and save more cats and dogs. Her focus will be on how just a little change in perspective can make a big life-saving difference.​​​​​​​

HSVMA Presents: Due to the growing public opposition to the use of traditional, lethal methods for mitigating human-wildlife conflicts, wildlife managers are now exploring the use of innovative, nonlethal fertility control methods for managing wildlife populations. This presentation will illustrate the important roles that veterinarians are playing in the development and advancement of this emerging field of wildlife management.   

Network for Good Presents: Looking at lessons learned from 2020, and current and projected trends for 2021. People are highly motivated right now, and giving them the opportunity to give back in their communities is effective and important.

Think Anesthesia Presents: Trouble with thermoregulation in patients under anesthesia? Learn the cold, hard facts of hypothermia as well as warmly embraced prevented measures that can easily be implemented into your routine patient management.

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 […]

FDSA Presents (fee applies): During this one-hour talk Moira will highlight the variety of issues that could be happening when a dog reacts while home alone, and will describe the crucial components of assessing and finding out what is truly going on so it can be successfully addressed.

VETGirl Presents (fee applies): In this VETgirl leadership webinar, Amy Newfield, CVT, VTS (ECC) reviews how to create change at your veterinary clinic and key steps for change management success. Tune in to learn what next steps you need to help your team make a change!

Community Cats Podcast Presents: How do you keep the water from freezing in the middle of winter? Or calm the irate neighbor whose flower bed has been turned into a litter box? Find out how to deal with these and many more colony caretaking challenges from Neighborhood Cats with their 20 years of experience dealing with all things community cat. Come and share your battle-worn secrets too!