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  • Webinar – 7/1/21 – Return to Home – Celebrating success with getting more pets back home! – CalAnimals

    Webinar – 7/1/21 – Return to Home – Celebrating success with getting more pets back home! – CalAnimals

    Join Gina Knepp, a leading expert in lost animal reunification, as she leads a panel discussion with shelter directors across the country, showcasing the tremendous strides that have been made getting lost pets back home where they belong. Formerly Return to Owner, but recently rebranded as Return to Home, shelters have discovered that pet loss prevention and proactive efforts at reunification are paying off!

    • Gina Knepp, Michelson Found Animals
    • Julie Banks, Riverside County Animal Services
    • Rebecca Guinn, Lifeline (Atlanta)
    • Shelly Simmons, Greenville Animal Care (South Carolina)

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://www.calanimals.org/on

  • Online Course – 7/9/21 to 7/11/21 – Feline techniques: How I manage common problems. Live from San Diego – IVS (fee applies)

    Online Course – 7/9/21 to 7/11/21 – Feline techniques: How I manage common problems. Live from San Diego – IVS (fee applies)

    Drs. Michael Lappin and Susan Little are two of the well-known feline interested veterinarians in North America. Dr. Little is board certified in feline medicine by the ABVP and owns two feline only practices in Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Lappin is an internal medicine specialist who has been involved with feline clinical research ever since reporting the Toxoplasma gondii IgM and IgG tests in 1989. His research group at Colorado State University completes approximately 15 feline clinical research projects per year. Drs. Little and Lappin have lectured together multiple times and most recently spoke to packed houses at both NAVC and WVC.

    Seminar Topics:

    Dr. Little:

    – Successful management of urethral obstruction in cats

    – Understanding Feline Idiopathic Cystitis

    – How to Use Feeding Tubes in Cats

    – Diagnosis and management of weight loss in senior cats

    – Finding the inner cat – feline obesity

    – Finicky felines: managing anorexia in cats

    – Let’s get moving – the constipated cat

    – Update on managing CKD

    – Management of diabetes mellitus in cats

    Dr. Lappin:

    – Fever of unknown origin in cats.

    – Logical antibiotic therapy in cats.

    – Management of upper respiratory infections in cats.

    – Management of the coughing cat.

    – Feline GI diseases: is it infectious, inflammatory, or neoplastic?

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://www.ivseminars.com/seminars/feline-techniques-how-i-manage-common-problems-live-from-san-diego/

  • Last Call for Shelter Medicine Fellowship Applications

    Last Call for Shelter Medicine Fellowship Applications

    Calling all shelter veterinarians! Would you like to gain additional training, make a positive life-saving impact in your shelter and community, and join a supportive and like-minded group of vets? Apply by June 23 for the 2021/2022 UW Shelter Medicine Program/UC Davis Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Fellowship, which provides all of this to selected fellows at no cost, thanks to a grant from Maddie’s Fund®. 

    Through participation in this program, the Fellow will:

    • Become familiar with resources to improve shelter animal health.
    • Become familiar with the ASV Guidelines for Standards of Care.
    • Learn many important elements of shelter consultation, including considerations for housing, population planning, sanitation, physical and behavioral well-being, etc.
    • Interact closely with shelter medicine faculty, resident, fellow alumni and students with a goal that relationships will develop that promote life-long learning and collaboration between practitioners and academics.
    • Attend a one week virtual fellowship training camp ‘Shelter Medicine Intensive’ in order to work closely with other fellows in the program as well as the UW and UC Davis Shelter Medicine teams and veterinary students. 
    • Complete a project focusing on an aspect of interest to the fellow with relevance to their home base shelter and creation of materials to share with the field. 

    Year after year Fellowship is ranked as one of the most impactful and enjoyable things the UW and UCD teams engage in. If this opportunity isn’t for you, be a friend and share with anyone you think might benefit. It really is a game-changer.

    For full program details and application requirements, visit uwsheltermedicine.com.  

  • CASCAR Zoom Call for California Shelters – 6/15/21 – Collecting Community Cat Data – CASCAR – UC Davis KSMP

    CASCAR Zoom Call for California Shelters – 6/15/21 – Collecting Community Cat Data – CASCAR – UC Davis KSMP

    Brittany Sundell of Idaho’s West Valley Humane Society joins us to discuss her innovative research measuring the impact of Return to Field efforts in her community. Through collars, cameras, community relationships, and mapping, she and her team are able to mitigate complaints, dispel fear over RTF practices, and even increase community involvement in cat care.

    CASCAR room link: https://sheltermedicine.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJQtdO-srDItyMz7xy-ZsncbcFa6s8kKZg

  • Webinar – Optimizing Anesthetic Recoveries – Think Anesthesia

    Webinar – Optimizing Anesthetic Recoveries – Think Anesthesia

    Join the Think Anesthesia® live, interactive webinar, Optimizing Anesthetic Recoveries, presented by Dr. Karen Kerr, BA, BVSc (Hons), MANZCVS on Friday, June 18 at 10:00 a.m. PT | 12 p.m. CT | 1:00 p.m. ET.

    Anesthetic recoveries are ideally smooth and rapid, with patients regaining consciousness and ambulation, and maintaining physiological homeostasis. In reality, the recovery period is associated with a high rate of complications. This session will outline how the preceding phases of anesthesia affect recovery quality, with guidelines for mitigating the risk of, recognizing, and managing rough and prolonged recoveries.

    Management of the recovery period will be discussed, with a focus on achieving smooth emergence from anesthesia. Common causes of rough recoveries include emergence delirium, pain and dysphoria, each of which will be discussed, with filmed examples, risk factors, identifying characteristics, and approaches to treatment. Prolonged recoveries are also common, and their causes and treatments will be covered.

    Upon completion of the course, participants will be familiar with aspects of the anesthetic plan that affect the recovery period, and recommended approaches to managing rough and prolonged recoveries.

    This presentation is RACE approved for 1 CE credit for both veterinarians and technicians.

    Following the live presentation, an on-demand version of this webinar will be available at www.thinkanesthesia.education/on-demand.

    Website Link:  https://www.thinkanesthesia.education/live-webinar/2021/06/think-anesthesiar-optimizing-anesthetic-recoveries

  • Deadline for Online Course – Shelter Playgroup Alliance – Workshop – Cohort Structure – Shelter Playgroup Alliance

    Deadline for Online Course – Shelter Playgroup Alliance – Workshop – Cohort Structure – Shelter Playgroup Alliance

    WORKSHOP STRUCTURE

    Next Cohort Begins June 21, 2021

    Send in your letter of interest by June 15

    Program Overview:  This series of educational modules will prepare participants to manage playgroups using the LIMA ethical standard and use conspecific interactions for behavior modification.

    Cohort Structure: Learners will be invited to join a cohort of 75 individuals that will meet virtually for three months via the Litmos LMS platform.  Each cohort will be invited to twice-monthly (bi-weekly) hour-long, live meetings via Zoom webinar so that questions can be answered live.  The bi-weekly meetings will feature video analysis and discussion of relevant topics.  A discussion board per cohort will be maintained and moderated.  After matriculation of each cohort, the cohort’s discussion board will be archived.

    Registration process: Individuals interested in joining each cohort must submit an “e-mail of interest” to the executive director, Mara Velez requesting to be added to the upcoming cohort. Each person must login at least twice a month and complete modules in order to continue. If, after a period of 30 days, a learner has not logged-in, they will be contracted; if no response within five days, their user account will be deactivated.

    Completion Timeframe: Learners will be expected to complete one module per week, which will require 60-90 minutes per week. The program consisting of Foundation and Intermediate modules will be expected to be completed within a three month time-frame. The total seat time per week is estimated to be two to two and a half hours.

    CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD MORE INFORMATION
  • Webinar – Getting to Know You: Understanding Dog-Dog Greetings – FDSA (fee applies)

    Webinar – Getting to Know You: Understanding Dog-Dog Greetings – FDSA (fee applies)

    Dr. Jennifer Summerfield – Getting to Know You: Understanding Dog-Dog Greetings

    Date: Thursday, June 17, 2021
    Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
    Fee: $19.95 – Registration required PRIOR to scheduled presentation time.

    For most of us, it makes intuitive sense that when people greet each other in social settings, there’s a lot going on in those first few moments! Handshakes (or other traditional greeting rituals, which can vary in different cultures), eye contact, and the words we use to address each other are all important components of human greeting behavior.
    Dogs are highly social animals with a rich repertoire of communication signals at their disposal, so it shouldn’t surprise us to learn that they have their own forms of species-specific ritualized greeting behavior. And just like in human society, dog-dog greetings can go well, or poorly… and can lead to anything from a polite passing “hello” or a successful round of play, to an explosion of barking and lunging, or even an all-out fight.

    In this webinar, we’ll discuss the anatomy of a “normal” dog-dog greeting interaction, as well as common variations you might see depending on breed and general personality. We’ll also talk about how these interactions can go wrong – due to poor social skills, fear/anxiety issues, or previous negative experiences. Video examples will be used to help illustrate the discussion.

    Website Link:  * Click here to register **

  • Webinar – Driving a Cat Culture Shift with the Ten Movement Webinar – AmPa!/HASS

    Webinar – Driving a Cat Culture Shift with the Ten Movement Webinar – AmPa!/HASS

    A recent creative campaign featuring “Scooter the Neutered Cat,” helped spur a transformation in the live-release rate of cats and drove a culture shift in the way Cincinnati, OH thinks about cats. On June 17, Deborah Cribbs, chairperson of the nonprofit cat advocacy group, the Ten Movement, will join Monica Frenden, Maddie’s® Director of Feline Lifesaving at American Pets Alive!, to share about this breakthrough campaign. The Ten Movement recently pivoted its focus from owned cats to community cats with its campaign, “Mild Kingdom.” Learn more about this new campaign and how the Ten Movement’s efforts changed the way people think about, behave toward, and interact with community cats in this live webinar.

    Register Here:  https://bit.ly/3cdMyoe

  • Webinar – 6/17/21 – Licensing Best Practices – Increase Revenue & Compliance! – CalAnimals

    Webinar – 6/17/21 – Licensing Best Practices – Increase Revenue & Compliance! – CalAnimals

    With pet license compliance below 20% across California, we know we can do better. Let’s make pet licensing easy, make the rules clear and consistent, and find common ways to communicate the importance and value of registration. All of this with the goal of attracting and engaging more pet owners, and making pet licensing a common, sharable experience for all Californians.

    1. Why do we make it so confusing for pet owners to “know the rules” in California?
    2. What’s right? What pricing and policies are best?

    In this webinar, Grant Goodwin, CEO of DocuPet, will:
    ● Showcase just how varied our programs have become,
    ● Identify a pricing and policy structure that has shown to be more effective,
    ● Highlight communication best-practices that really resonate with pet owners, and
    Explain how DocuPet is working with and between communities to make pet licensing work better for pet owners and animal service departments alike.

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mGc-L6-cTXelVYJT30E1ig

  • Addressing Concerns About Community Cats: How to Turn Controversy into Collaboration

    Addressing Concerns About Community Cats: How to Turn Controversy into Collaboration

    Are you considering launching, or have recently launched, a RTF/SNR/TNR program and are now dealing with an onslaught of questions and/or pushback from your community about why you’re putting cats/kittens back where they came from? Are you being accused of abandonment? Wreaking havoc on the environment, birds, gardens, peace AND quiet? Although it may not feel like it at times, you and your community share the same goal, and the June 25 webinar The Top Ten: Questions and Controversy with Community Cat Programs from Maddie’s Fund® and the Million Cat Challenge will help you build on this common ground.

    Whether you identify as an animal welfare professional, a bird lover, someone who just wants these cats out of your yard, or all of the above, we’re all here for the most effective, sustainable way to reduce the number of cats living outside. Our challenge lies in communicating the benefits of a proven strategy that can often seem counterintuitive to those new to feline management.

    An all-star panel featuring Monica Frenden (Maddie’s® Director of Feline Lifesaving), Danielle Bays (HSUS Senior Analyst, Cat Protection & Policy) and Christi Metropole (Executive Director of Stray Cat Alliance) will give answers to the top ten questions you receive about TNR, SNR, and returning cats, and let us know how to message community cat program alignment with our universally-held goal of managing feline populations.

    Save the date and register here. Want to be sure your question is addressed? Email #allthecats@millioncatchallenge.org and we’ll queue it up for showtime.