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  • Online Certificate Program – Starts 1/30/23 – Animal Shelter Behavioral Management Certificate Program – Humane Network/UoP (fee applies)

    Online Certificate Program – Starts 1/30/23 – Animal Shelter Behavioral Management Certificate Program – Humane Network/UoP (fee applies)

    The shelter environment is a very stressful place that affects the psychological well-being of the animals. Comprehensive behavior programs are essential to keep the animals behaviorally and emotionally healthy during their stay. This eight-week course will give you the knowledge and skills to develop an effective behavior program aimed at improving the welfare of the animals in your care.

    UPCOMING DATES: 1/30/2023 – 4/2/2023

    Who will benefit from this program?

    • Anyone currently affiliated with an animal shelter or rescue organization who wants to learn more about animal behavior as it relates to the shelter/foster environment.
    • Anyone who wants to improve the emotional wellbeing of the animals in your care.
    • Anyone seeking a behavior specialist position with an animal shelter or rescue organization.

    What You Will Learn

    • Gain knowledge on how to read dog and cat animal body language and signaling
    • Learn techniques for safe, humane handling of the animals
    • Understand how the shelter environment effects the emotional wellbeing of the animals and how to use stress reduction techniques to improve welfare
    • Gain knowledge on how to keep the animals physically, mentally, and socially stimulated through shelter-wide enrichment programs
    • Understand the value of effective canine and feline behavior assessments
    • Obtain the knowledge and skills needed to implement training and behavior modification techniques to improve the behavior and emotional state of the shelter animals
    • Obtain skills needed to ensure quality customer service for adoption counseling and follow-up.

    Continuing Education Units (CEUs): 4.8 CEUs

    Course Code: UNSM 050

    Course Price: $399

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://education.pacific.edu/education/professional-development/certificate-programs/leadership-health-certificates

  • Webinar – 1/31/23 – “Safety First”–Tips to Improve Anesthetic Patient Care in Your Hospital – VETGirl (fee applies)

    Webinar – 1/31/23 – “Safety First”–Tips to Improve Anesthetic Patient Care in Your Hospital – VETGirl (fee applies)

    Up your anesthetic game!

    In this 1-hour, VETgirl veterinary technician webinar, Donna Sisak, CVT, LVT, VTS (Anesthesia/Analgesia) reviews the role the veterinary technician anesthetist plays in monitoring and managing a patient for a successful outcome. Tune in to learn tips to improve anesthetic patient care within your practice.

    Not a VETgirl ELITE member? Get your learning on with the #1 veterinary CE resource – clinically relevant, practical, and accessible 24/7 on your own time! Don’t miss out – click HERE to join now!

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://vetgirlontherun.com/webinars/january-31-2023-safety-first-tips-to-improve-anesthetic-patient-care-in-your-hospital/

  • Webinar – 1/26/23 – How to Embrace Your Inner Sloth – Techniques for Controlling Stress and Anxiety – VETGirl (fee applies)

    Webinar – 1/26/23 – How to Embrace Your Inner Sloth – Techniques for Controlling Stress and Anxiety – VETGirl (fee applies)

    Carpe diem!

    In this 1-hour, VETgirl leadership webinar, Karlene Belyea, MBA will help you find ways to let go of the stress of worrying about the future, live in the moment, control negative thoughts and emotions, ask for help, and learn to say “no”. Life doesn’t have to be so hard! Tune in to learn strategies and tips you can use immediately to improve the quality of your life!

    This program is applicable toward the continuing education requirement for the Certified Veterinary Practice Manager (CVPM) program offered by the Veterinary Hospital Managers Association (VHMA). Approval Number: 22-134

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://vetgirlontherun.com/webinars/january-26-2023-how-to-embrace-your-inner-sloth-techniques-for-controlling-stress-and-anxiety/

  • Online Event – 1/5/23 – Puppy Training and Socialization with Debbie Martin – Karen Pryor Academy

    Online Event – 1/5/23 – Puppy Training and Socialization with Debbie Martin – Karen Pryor Academy

    Explore puppy socialization, a puppy’s first training plan, and all things puppies on the next Live from The Ranch broadcast. Join Ken Ramirez, KPCT’s Chief Training Officer, and Debbie Martin, RVT, VTS (Behavior), and co-author of Puppy Start Right: Foundation Training for the Companion Dog for this free virtual event with real-time training demos, audience Q&A, and more! Tune in live on Youtube on Thursday, January 5, at 1:00 pm (PT).

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://theranch.clickertraining.com/live/#next

  • Webinar – 1/19/23 – Reducing Return Rates Through Early Dog Training – CalAnimals

    Webinar – 1/19/23 – Reducing Return Rates Through Early Dog Training – CalAnimals

    Join the GoodPup team as they share how shelters and rescue groups all over the US and Canada are reducing adoption return rates by as much as 45% through GoodPup’s life saving partnership program. In this webinar, you will learn how your organization can work with GoodPup to offer convenient, affordable, positive-reinforcement dog training in your community. You will also find out how you can utilize GoodPup’s innovative technology to track training completion rates of dogs getting adopted from your facility. GoodPup offers an affiliate program that is 100% free for shelters and rescues. They also offer training gift certificates, called “Scholarships,” that can be purchased at an affordable rate.

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wY3_hnYeQX23kyC5cJZUeg

  • Grant Opportunity – 1/23/23 to 1/30/23 – Open Arms Challenge Application Window – Maddie’s Fund

    Grant Opportunity – 1/23/23 to 1/30/23 – Open Arms Challenge Application Window – Maddie’s Fund

    Get ready for the 2023 Open Arms Challenge where $420,000 in grant prizes will be available!
    This Challenge is all about opening our hearts and minds to more accessible and inclusive practices. Twenty-two national organizations are joining forces to encourage animal shelters and foster-based organizations to pilot new approaches that welcome your entire community during the month of April.

    And as if increased inclusivity and community engagement weren’t incentive enough, there’s also $420,000 in grant prizes available!

    Save the date: Registration will open on January 23 and close on January 30, 2023.

    The goal of this Challenge is to increase inclusivity and provide a welcoming environment for all community members. What that looks like is different for every organization. It can be as simple as providing literature in multiple languages or returning voicemails in a timely manner to overhauling the adoption application, undertaking bias training or focusing on neighborhoods where adoption events are not held.

    Important Dates:

    • Registration Period: Monday, January 23, 2023 – Monday, January 30, 2023 (Apply through our grants portal until 5pm PST on January 30, 2023)
    • Prep Period: March 1 – March 31, 2023. This is your chance to prepare for your new welcoming practices (update policies/procedures, train staff, etc.)
    • Challenge Period: April 1, 2023 – April 30, 203. During this time, you will pilot your new practices.
    • Participation Reports Due: Friday, May 19, 2023 (see a sample of that report)
    • Final Report (via Zoom Huddle) for Award Winners: September 2023 (see sample questions)

    To be considered to PARTICIPATE in this Challenge, your organization must:

    • Be a U.S.-based government agency or 501c3 public charity that focuses on dogs and/or cats
    • Be a shelter, foster-based organization or public charity that focuses on keeping pets and people together
    • Be current on Maddie’s Fund grant reporting for any prior grants
    • Be a member of Shelter Animals Count
    • Register for the Challenge by submitting a complete application through the Maddie’s Fund Grants Portal. You’ll be notified by February 17, 2023 if you meet the eligibility requirements to participate in the Challenge.
    • Recommended but not required: Maddie’s® Pet Forum, Maddie’s® University, Best Friends Pet Lifesaving Dashboard

    To be considered for an AWARD from this Challenge, your organization must:

    • Meet the requirements above
    • Submit the Participation Report (due Friday, May 19, 2023 by 5pm PST). (View sample Participation Report) Please note, this sample is provided for reference only and questions are subject to change.

    WEBSITE LINK: https://www.maddiesfund.org/open-arms-challenge.htm

  • Grant Opportunity – 1/23/23 to 1/30/23 – Open Arms Challenge Application Window – Maddie’s Fund

    Grant Opportunity – 1/23/23 to 1/30/23 – Open Arms Challenge Application Window – Maddie’s Fund

    Get ready for the 2023 Open Arms Challenge where $420,000 in grant prizes will be available!
    This Challenge is all about opening our hearts and minds to more accessible and inclusive practices. Twenty-two national organizations are joining forces to encourage animal shelters and foster-based organizations to pilot new approaches that welcome your entire community during the month of April.

    And as if increased inclusivity and community engagement weren’t incentive enough, there’s also $420,000 in grant prizes available!

    Save the date: Registration will open on January 23 and close on January 30, 2023.

    The goal of this Challenge is to increase inclusivity and provide a welcoming environment for all community members. What that looks like is different for every organization. It can be as simple as providing literature in multiple languages or returning voicemails in a timely manner to overhauling the adoption application, undertaking bias training or focusing on neighborhoods where adoption events are not held.

    Important Dates:

    • Registration Period: Monday, January 23, 2023 – Monday, January 30, 2023 (Apply through our grants portal until 5pm PST on January 30, 2023)
    • Prep Period: March 1 – March 31, 2023. This is your chance to prepare for your new welcoming practices (update policies/procedures, train staff, etc.)
    • Challenge Period: April 1, 2023 – April 30, 203. During this time, you will pilot your new practices.
    • Participation Reports Due: Friday, May 19, 2023 (see a sample of that report)
    • Final Report (via Zoom Huddle) for Award Winners: September 2023 (see sample questions)

    To be considered to PARTICIPATE in this Challenge, your organization must:

    • Be a U.S.-based government agency or 501c3 public charity that focuses on dogs and/or cats
    • Be a shelter, foster-based organization or public charity that focuses on keeping pets and people together
    • Be current on Maddie’s Fund grant reporting for any prior grants
    • Be a member of Shelter Animals Count
    • Register for the Challenge by submitting a complete application through the Maddie’s Fund Grants Portal. You’ll be notified by February 17, 2023 if you meet the eligibility requirements to participate in the Challenge.
    • Recommended but not required: Maddie’s® Pet Forum, Maddie’s® University, Best Friends Pet Lifesaving Dashboard

    To be considered for an AWARD from this Challenge, your organization must:

    • Meet the requirements above
    • Submit the Participation Report (due Friday, May 19, 2023 by 5pm PST). (View sample Participation Report) Please note, this sample is provided for reference only and questions are subject to change.

    WEBSITE LINK: https://www.maddiesfund.org/open-arms-challenge.htm

  • New Course Covers Community Cat Program Dos and Don’ts

    New Course Covers Community Cat Program Dos and Don’ts

    Whether you’re curious about implementing a community cat program or already have one at your shelter that you’d like to improve, Community Cat Programs Legal Considerations, the latest course in the Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge Shelter PALS Legal Series, has you covered.

    Community cat programs provide significant benefit to cats, community members, and shelters—there’s a reason Return to Field, which we now call Return to Home, was one of the five key initiatives of the Million Cat Challenge, helping shelters save over four million cats to date! Despite widespread support and documented success of these programs, questions about the legality of sterilizing, vaccinating, and returning unowned, healthy free-roaming cats to their homes can arise.

    In this short, Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge Learniverse self-paced, on-demand training module (SPOT mod), Bruce Wagman, Lead Counsel for San Francisco SPCA’s Shelter Policy and Legal Services (Shelter PALS) program, explores what community cat programs (CCPs) are, explains why CCPs are needed, and describes how effective CCPs operate within legal considerations.

    You’ll learn how your shelter can address cat overpopulation and help cats thrive where they are by implementing humane, life-saving, evidence-based community cat programs, and you’ll leave with a list of important dos and don’ts surrounding:

    • Cat Eligibility
    • Intake Procedures and Flow Through the Shelter
    • Returning Cats to Their Outdoor Home
    • Program Data Collection
    • Engaging Shelter Staff and Gaining Community Support

    This course has been approved for 1.0 unit of CE by CAWA, NACA and RACE.

    Click to Start Learning

    Other courses in the Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge Shelter PALS Legal Series

    Animal Intake Requirements and Holding Periods Legal Considerations

    Finder Foster Legal Considerations

    Learn more about the Maddie’s®️ Million Pet Challenge Learniverse.  


  • Webinar – 1/12/23 – Hélène Lawler – Put Your Oxygen Mask On First: Living and Loving Dogs with Big Feelings – FDSA (fee applies)

    Webinar – 1/12/23 – Hélène Lawler – Put Your Oxygen Mask On First: Living and Loving Dogs with Big Feelings – FDSA (fee applies)

    When our dogs have big feelings about the world, they behave in ways that can make competing, training, and even daily life a challenge.

    Thankfully, there are now countless resources to help our dogs: Behaviourists, training specialists, medications, on-line training and competing options, gut-rebuilding protocols, supplements, massage and other body work, and so much more!

    But… What about YOU?

    What are you doing to support YOU? To help you with the anxiety, stress, grief, disappointment, fear, or frustration that is also so often part of this picture?

    Because, what’s the point of moving heaven and earth to help Spot walk calmly down the street, or up to a start line, if you’re a miserable, anxious mess at the other end of the leash?

    We have dogs in our lives to bring us joy, love, and companionship. We do dog sports to have fun and find fulfillment through the process of taking that relationship to the next level.

    When our dogs struggle, WE struggle. But it doesn’t have to be this way! It is possible to train yourself to feel calm and confident, even when your dog does not. And when you feel good? You make better decisions, have better response time, and can even send some of that confidence down the leash to your dog.

    Join me in this webinar to learn my unique, step-by-step self-coaching process designed to help YOU help yourself feel peaceful, calm and confident so that you can reclaim the joy of training. Even if your dog’s big feelings about the world never change (although, quite often, when we feel better, so do they!)

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://www.fenzidogsportsacademy.com/index.php/self-study/webinars

  • Webinar – 1/5/23 – Circle Method for Basic Reactivity and Over Arousal (Part 2) – FDSA (fee applies)

    Webinar – 1/5/23 – Circle Method for Basic Reactivity and Over Arousal (Part 2) – FDSA (fee applies)

    This webinar is intended to provide advice, interventions, and skills for individuals working with reactive or overexcited dogs. “The circle method of Loose Leash Walking” will be used to help the behavior and emotional state of reactive and over-aroused dogs by allowing them to adjust to their environment, reconnect with their handlers, and become more emotionally comfortable in the presence of specific triggers. The method can be used regardless of food interest and does not require elaborate set-ups. The information presented will build upon the circle method of loose leash walking, and will assume knowledge of that material. This webinar assumes professional or amateur trainers who can assimilate the information with a preexisting working knowledge of dog behavior, reactivity and over-aroused behavior.

    Note: This webinar is back by popular demand. Please check your webinar library before purchasing.

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://www.fenzidogsportsacademy.com/index.php/self-study/webinars