Shelter Learniverse and Industry-Wide Calendar

Loose Leash Academy Presents (fee applies): Are you encountering more reactive and aggressive dogs in your day to day work? Do you have a dog who needs more help with aggressive or reactive behaviors? Would you like to learn from the best in dog training and behavior as they demonstrate their work with aggression cases? Join us for the Second Annual Conference dedicated to helping dogs with aggression.

VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary VETgirl–Zoetis webinar, Dr. Ross H. Palmer, MS, DACVS reviews how canine osteoarthritis negatively affects patients. Through early diagnosis and comprehensive management successful treatment can lead our patients to healthier and fulfilling lives.

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.

Getting 2 Zero Presents: How can animal shelters become leaders in climate sensitive design and practice? Join VfCA founding member Dr. Angela Frimberger to learn how climate change is affecting animals, leading to a need to inform animal shelter design and future planning.

Maddie’s Fund Presents: Each Open Arms Challenge Zoom Huddle will consist of two 10-minute presentations followed by a 20-minute Q&A. About this huddle: Churches, food banks, restaurants, community centers, car dealerships…How different partnerships can expand your reach.

VETGirl Presents (fee applies for non-members): In this VETgirl veterinary technician webinar, Jenny Fisher, RVT, VTS (Oncology) will provide a broad overview of veterinary oncology. Tune in to follow one single cell on its cancer journey. From basic cell biology, diagnostics, staging and treatments, this webinar will cover all things oncology. Tune in to freshen up your oncology knowledge.

Network for Good Presents: Year-end fundraising is crucial to any nonprofit. Giving Tuesday is the biggest giving day of the year and 31% of all annual giving happens in December alone. You need to make sure your campaign will yield the greatest results without over-exhausting your small but mighty team. That’s why you need to follow these tips and tricks to cut through the noise and work smarter, not harder!

PPG Presents (fee applies): Classical conditioning is important to understand for anyone interacting with animals. In the session, the presenter will discuss how these learning mechanisms impacts animals’ emotional states, decision making and behavior – and how we can best harness them.

Maddie’s Fund Presents: The changes you can make to maximize the potential for making emotional connections between pets and potential adopters and fosters are simple but powerful. This webcast will make the case for the separation of marketing and adoption counseling through reviewing the science behind how we form relationships and why warning labels work to keep consumers from taking products home.

VETGirl Presents (fee applies for non-members): In this VETgirl leadership webinar, Dr. Sally Ryan will review the ethics of working in a veterinary clinic, and how it can elicit emotional responses. In this webinar, we’ll identify some common ethical dilemmas in veterinary practice, whether you’re a CSR, vet tech, veterinary associate or veterinary owner. Learn critical principles for ethical leadership and identify ways for applying the principles in practice.

NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: This webinar will provide an overview on the biology and ecology of bears and cougars, how to make yards and neighborhoods less attractive to them, how to reduce conflicts with people and pets, which situations necessitate a response, and how to handle problems if they arise.

Maddie’s Fund Presents: Each Open Arms Challenge Zoom Huddle will consist of two 10-minute presentations followed by a 20-minute Q&A. When your entire organization is more open and inclusive, everybody wins. Danielle Harris, Pima County, and Melissa Lesinky, Southern Arizona Cat Rescue, will present.

PPG Presents (fee applies): Personality is all about individual differences in dogs and can help explain why some dogs react to life so differently than others. How is personality measured? What personality traits have been found in dogs? How consistent is personality over time? And how does all of this help you when working with dogs? We’ll explore all of these questions and more in this one-hour webinar.

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): This is Part One of a two-part webinar on working with “atypical” dogs. Both webinars are stand-alone webinars covering a different aspect of this topic, but they combine to cover the topic more broadly. In Part One, we will discuss the underlying factors that contribute to the development of an atypical dog, including genetic traits and the impact of prior learning, and more.

FDSA Presents (fee applies): This is Part Two of a two-part webinar on working with “atypical” dogs. Both webinars are stand-alone webinars covering a different aspect of this topic, but they combine to cover the topic more broadly. In this “Part Two” webinar we look at a wide range of specific examples from a variety of different sports.

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.