Shelter Learniverse and Industry-Wide Calendar

Community Cats Podcast and National Kitten Coalition Present (fee applies): This three-day virtual gathering will feature presentations by experts on raising and saving kittens, setting up and managing kitten-centered shelter programs, and more. Since this is a virtual event, you’ll have an opportunity to gain valuable insights and have your questions answered by some of the most knowledgeable leaders in the animal welfare community—without the expense and hassle of traveling.

Shelter Playgroup Alliance Presents (fee applies): Join us at the 2022 Shelter Behavior and Enrichment Conference, where leaders in behavioral science, animal welfare, enrichment, and inter-animal interactions will present research and strategies for enhancing animal welfare and animal  interactions, including play.

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.

UW and UC Davis Shelter Medicine Programs Present: As our communities become more informed about recognizing and responding to human trauma, there’s growing interest in the impact of chronic stress and trauma on animal behavior. In this session, Dr. Sheila Segurson will discuss practical ways you can prevent trauma and help animals to recover.

Dogs Playing for Life Presents: In this last section, attendees will be offered a robust collection of video examples and important discussions on safety, effective handling techniques, and how to take the first steps to implement or enhance their own shelter playgroup programs.

PPG Presents (fee applies): This webinar will cover the definition and different categories of stress and how stress impacts behavior. It will also discuss how to build stress resilience in dogs (and other animals).

CalAnimals Presents: In the right situations, stray animals found by community members can be quickly and legally moved from stray to foster status, and then adopted out, without ever entering local shelters. This webinar will lay out best practices for “Foster-Finder” programs, that will benefit all involved.

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 […]

National Kitten Coalition Presents: With the information provided in the webinar, attendees will understand these aspects of FKS and be better able to help kittens by recognizing early signs of “fading”, taking immediate and appropriate actions, and knowing what can be done to prevent some cases of fading kitten syndrome from ever occurring in the first place.

GoodPup Presents: In this webinar we’ll talk about how to assess separation related behaviors; how to prevent and treat them. The GoodPup Webinar Series focuses on dog behavior topics designed specifically to help anyone who works at rescues and shelters. This presentation is free and open to anyone in your community including staff, volunteers, fosters and adopters.

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.

Think Anesthesia Presents: In this presentation we will explore the use of the Feline Grimace Scale (FGS), the introduction of a new formulation of buprenorphine which can increase efficacious treatment of feline pain, and a novel approach to the treatment of feline osteoarthritis recently approved in the US by the FDA!

VDOS Presents (fee applies): Do you struggle removing a canine or carnassial tooth? What about root remnants and ankylosed teeth in cats? No worries, here you learn all the tricks you need for safe and complete extraction of teeth!

VDOS Presents (fee applies): Do you struggle removing root remnants? Do you know how to close an oronasal fistula? You used too much force and fractured the mandible? No worries, here you learn how to manage tooth extraction complications!

PuppyWorks Presents (fee applies): In this two-part webinar series, we will look at the biological and environmental causes of dog aggression from DNA through gut biomes to chronic stress. We will look at the biological mechanisms behind different management and treatment options so you better understand what might work and when. 

VDOS Presents (fee applies): This VDOS webinar will review normal oral structures that may be confused as abnormalities and perioperative complications that can occur during dental and oral surgical procedures, including neurological deficits, tracheal injury, oral edema, orbital injury, trigeminocardiac reflex, iatrogenic lingual trauma, and vomiting and regurgitation.

VDOS Presents (fee applies): How to determine whether it is TMJ luxation or open-mouth jaw locking? What to do with an avulsed tooth? Any temporary relief for the jaw fracture patient? Know the various dental and oral emergencies and provide emergency care prior to definitive treatment!