Shelter Learniverse and Industry-Wide Calendar

My Dog Is My Home Presents: Office Hours give you an opportunity to ask questions and troubleshoot issues with an expert on a specific topic. Any dog training or behavior questions may be brought to this office hours session, and the intention is to help you workshop your concern as they relate to policies, procedures, and practices at your own emergency shelter or housing sites.

Maddie’s Fund Presents: Maddie’s Fund hosts a weekly 50-minute Zoom call for animal well-being professionals. These calls are a collaborative space to share exciting new programs and research, discuss uncomfortable topics, connect with peers in the industry, and more, all while sharing a common goal of preserving the human-animal bond.

Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge Presents: Is what your shelter software has to say getting lost in translation? Start transforming numbers and patterns in your intake and outcome reports into concrete benefits for animals and staff. Discover how to increase live release and lower length of stay based on information you already have at your fingertips.

The Association of Shelter Veterinarians Presents: The ASV Shelter Guidelines Re-Boot Camp is a half day seminar geared to all workers in a foster based rescue or shelter to help make incorporating the Guidelines attainable for more organizations.

Dog iBox Presents (fee applies): What does joy feel like to you? Is it the same for the person sitting next to you? Is it the same for the animals in your care? Are emotions pre-wired in the brain or are they learned? Is the topic of emotions even relevant to training animals? These are just a few of the interesting and important questions that surround the topic of emotions. In this session, we will focus on contemporary approaches to understanding emotions with action potential for living and learning with animals.

Community Cats Podcast Presents: Led by Brianna Lovell Myers, Hospitality Cat at Community Cats Podcast, this webinar will demonstrate how ChatGPT can be used by anyone in the animal rescue space to create social media content, craft fundraising appeals, and more. No tech-savvy required!

VETGirl Presents (fee applies for non-members): In this 1-hour, VETgirl small animal webinar, Dr. Lena DeTar, DACVPM, DABVP-SMP will review three commonly implicated shelter diseases and the principles of outbreak response used to manage them in animal shelters. Tune in to help better understand risk analysis in the shelter and options that can be used to help prevent future outbreaks!

Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge Presents: Uncover hidden and not-so-hidden roadblocks that are keeping animals in the shelter, contributing to shelter team overwhelm and fatigue, and tying up precious resources. Discover how to clear the way to ensure more pets are reunited with their families or placed in new homes. Tap into opportunities to increase live outcomes and build relationships with potential partners, volunteers, fosters, and adopters in your community.

Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge Presents: Shelter teams are faced daily with high-stakes outcome decisions made harder by an increasingly complex and strained system. We’ll discuss some of the issues at play and help you to develop tools to remove bottlenecks to outcomes and overcome the toughest decision-making dilemmas, from adoption to euthanasia, with transparency and compassion.

Community Cats Podcast Presents (small fee applies): Dr. Rachel Geller of All Cats All the Time shares her wisdom on preventing cat surrender as yet another tactic to ease the burden on shelters AND keep cats where they belong, with their family. Join this session to learn what surrender prevention is and why it works.

Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge Presents: Capacity for Care (C4C) is such a wonderful place to be, yet it can feel so out of reach. What is your shelter’s capacity for care, what is it based on, and are you staying within it? Even just understanding what C4C is can feel overwhelming, much less getting there. Need a refresher or don’t know where to start? Answer — right here!

ASPCAPro Presents: In this session, participants will learn about various medications needed for decontamination and treatment of pets exposed to a toxicant. Participants will learn the top medications recommended by the APCC for common ingestions and how to best use them for patients. 

Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge Presents: Learn progressive and collaborative ways of respecting all of the members of your community, especially those who come to us for supportive services. We’ll focus on ways to help pets stay in their current homes when possible and effectively reserve shelter intake for animals who really need to be in our care. We’ll discuss not only how these techniques can reduce shelter intakes, but also how this approach will set everyone up for success, including families, animals, and shelter team members.

ACVB Presents: When is it neurological and when is it behavioural? This talk will use cases to discuss this approach and the pitfalls of assuming that you know something you may not when you label the condition.

FDSA Presents (fee applies): In this webinar Deb will introduce the zen concept along with a variety of exercises to introduce that will encourage your dog to become more thoughtful and less reactive around food and toys.

Virginia Tech Presents: A unique opportunity to learn about canine science from the scientists! In this information-packed behavior & training conference, you will learn about the latest research in canine behavior, training, sheltering, & welfare. Perfect for practitioners who value & use evidence-based interventions to improve the lives of dogs.

The National Kitten Coalition Presents: The National Kitten Coalition and the EveryCat Health Foundation are hosting a three-part Webinar Series. If you are planning to or have recently added a new kitten to your family, or are looking for information to share with new kitten families in your community, this series will provide crucial information for raising a kitten into a happy, healthy cat.

Community Cats Podcast Presents: The more cats you fix, the more impact your TNR program will have, right? Wrong! Spay/neuter volume alone is rarely enough by itself to keep consistently reducing a community’s free-roaming cat population over time. Another aspect to the program needs to be identifying areas of high need (meaning, lots of cats) and then focusing TNR resources at that location in order to achieve high sterilization rates. Discover what targeting is, why it’s so important, and how you can do it no matter how large or small your program currently is.