Ask Susan Spaulding, aka ‘The Nation’s Kitten Mom’ from The National Kitten Coalition your burning questions about bottle-feeding neonates. We recommend that you watch our archived webinars about bottle-feeding kittens on our website ahead of time too!
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Webinar – 4/29/21, 5/6/21, and 5/13/21 – Community-Centered Veterinary Care: 3 Part Webinar Series – American Pets Alive!
Many animals are surrendered to shelters due to medical issues that families cannot afford. Most communities lack options for low cost, no-cost, or incremental full service medicine due to laws, vet associations, and lack of willing veterinary providers. Shelter Medicine experts from all over the country joined the Human Animal Support Services External Facing Medical Care Working Group. This group has created three toolkits to help shelters prevent financially based intake for medical cases, and to keep more people and pets together. Contributing organizations include LA Animal Services, Brampton Animal Services, Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association, LifeLine Animal Project, KC Pet Project, Michigan Humane, San Diego Humane Society, Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell University, Humane Society of Sonoma County, Best Friends Animal Society, Association of Shelter Veterinarians, Toronto Humane Society, Pathway Vet Alliance, Montgomery County Animal Shelter, Banfield Pet Hospital, and Montgomery County Animal Services & Adoption Center.Join members of this working group for a three part webinar series on April 29, May 6, and May 13.Part 1: Starting a Facility from Scratch – April 29, 5pm CT
Create an external facing medical facility to support your community, whether at your shelter or stand alone.Speakers:
Kelley Meyers, DVM
Linda Jacobson, BVSc, MMedVet, PhD
Maria AnselmoPart 2: In-Shelter Support Care Program – May 6, 5pm CT
Legally provide urgent medical care to owned animals to help them stay with their families.Speakers:
Chumkee Aziz, DVM, DABVP
Lauren Overman
Erin Katribe, DVM, MS
Lisa Labrecque, DVM
Elizabeth Berliner, DVM, DABVPPart 3: Utilizing Existing Veterinary Practices – May 13, 5pm CST
Work with existing veterinary practices for programs like Austin Pets Alive!’s PASS program, and other local partnerships.Speakers:
Ellen Jefferson, DVM
J.J. Rawlinson, DVM
Jeremy Prupas, VMD
Stephanie Miller, RVT
Pam RunquistWEBSITE LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4hRM2zTfSaCW3ESwVAOzTQ
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Webinar – 4/19/21 – Identifying Need for Spay/Neuter Services in Massachusetts: A GIS-based Analysis – Massachusetts Animal Coalition
About the meeting: Please join us for a presentation about a method for assessing need for spay and neuter resources using GIS (Geographic Information Systems).
Introduction: A needs assessment for spay and neuter resources in Massachusetts.
Cameron Carow will present the results of a GIS-based analysis of need for spay and neuter resources in the state of Massachusetts. This project demonstrates how GIS can be utilized to combine spatial, socioeconomic and demographic data to identify regions with significant need for spay and neuter resources. This analysis was designed to support MAC as it reassesses the “I am Animal Friendly” License Plate Grant program. This will help MAC members and friends understand how these findings reflect what is happening in your part of Massachusetts and it will provide us with the information that we all need in order to refine our own spay and neuter efforts.
WEBSITE LINK: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=dmv5lydab&oeidk=a07ehpwnkvie7c45a14
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New NACA Statement Benefits Cats and Communities
Recently the National Animal Care & Control Association (NACA), a group representing officers responsible for public health and safety, issued a strong statement supporting humane community cat management and trap-neuter-return and advocating for continued community education.
The statement acknowledges that impoundment of healthy adult cats reduces the likelihood of reuniting families with pets while disproportionately impacting under-served and marginalized communities.
It is the position of NACA that indiscriminate pick up or admission of healthy, free-roaming cats, regardless of temperament, for any purpose other than TNR/SNR, fails to serve commonly held goals of community animal management and protection programs and, as such, is a misuse of time and public funds and should be avoided.
Animal Control Intake of Free-Roaming CatsDownload and read the full statement below.
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Webinar – 4/22/21 – Don’t dread the Strategic Plan! – Getting 2 Zero
Does talk of strategic planning make your team’s eyes role with “here we go again”? Have you got a strategic plan that was fun to create but sits on the shelf un-read once the real world takes over again? Or do you create great strategies with fabulous intentions but a couple of months later you just can’t work out why it’s not working out, until eventually everyone slips back into the old habits?
Trust us, you’re not alone. Statistically, 60-70% of change initiatives, especially strategic plans, fail. Why? Because we believe that the work is in the creation of a plan, rather than delivery of it. Because the nature of shelters and the nature of people is that when the going gets tough, we revert to what we’re comfortable with.
This session is an introduction to how to ensure your strategic plan is aspirational enough AND deliverable. On how to create a vision that inspires, how to ensure your organisation is moving forward, how to engage your people in the plan. And the step we usually miss: how to implement it in a way that ensures it’s not just a document that sits on a shelf until the next planning session in three years.
If any of this resonates with your organisation, this session is absolutely for you – and for you to invite your Board/CEO/senior managers to attend with you!
Session presenter: Dr Jess Moore-Jones
Jess has been Executive Manager, CEO and Senior Advisor to shelters large and small, local and international, government and charitable. Having worked with more than a dozen shelters to assist with culture, structure, strategy and operational delivery (as well as some niche passions such as human behaviour for animal welfare and professional resilience), Jess has seen so many ways of doing things that she is able to pull all the best ideas together, and work out how they can be applied to each organisation’s unique challenges and opportunities.
WEBSITE LINK: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JUSsBZGRSlmtzT32NBxi3Q
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CASCAR Zoom Call for California Shelters – 4/6/21 – The Next Phase – CASCAR – UC Davis KSMP
Well y’all, it’s been a year and what a year it’s been! A couple of weeks ago there were a bunch of articles around the one year-ish anniversary and this line from one Fast Time’s article really struck me:
You will never unlearn the things you now know about yourself, about how you handle an emergency and what you can withstand.
That’s certainly been true when it comes to our amazing California shelter colleagues. We always knew you were a fantastic group of humans, but honestly, when we started meeting as a group it would have been hard to imagine either the challenges that awaited us or how creative and resilient we would turn out to be.
As we enter the next phase, we here at CASCAR central are wondering how we can turn that creativity and resilience towards sustaining the positive changes that have come out of the pandemic and meet the challenges associated with re-opening and recovery.
Let’s talk about it at your next CASCAR call at the NEW TIME of 1:00 on the first and third TUESDAYS.
We hope some new folks or folks who used to come can join at this new time and also hope many of our regulars can make it. (We are always open to your feedback on time by the way.) We wanted to keep this upcoming Tuesday’s call as more of a discussion as we’ve got ACC coming up with plenty o’ content and we suspect your content cups will already be quite full 😉
CASCAR room link: https://sheltermedicine.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJQtdO-srDItyMz7xy-ZsncbcFa6s8kKZg
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Webinar – 4/22/21 – To Pee or Not to Pee: That is the Feline House Soiling Problem – ACVB
Urine here, urine there, urine everywhere! Living in a home where your beloved cat eliminates outside of the litter box can be a very disheartening and frustrating experience. Unfortunately, feline house soiling problems are the most common behavioral complaint in cats. Join us in this webinar where we will walk through the decision tree to diagnosing behavioral causes for feline house soiling, differentiating between marking behavior and unwanted toileting behavior (previously referred to as “inappropriate elimination”), and discuss prevention and treatment recommendations.
About the Presenter
Kat Pankratz, DVM, DACVB, graduated with her veterinary degree from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2014 and pursued a small animal rotating internship in New York. She completed her behavioral medicine residency program at North Carolina State University and became board certified by the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists in 2018. She stayed on at NC State for her fellowship and as a clinical instructor before joining the Animal Behavior Clinic in Portland, OR in 2019. When striving to understand inter-cat conflict and feline house soiling within her home, Dr. Pankratz became passionate about veterinary behavior. She aspires to help others rebuild the human animal bond. She is most interested in educating others to better understand and communicate with their beloved pet. She is an adjunct professor at NC State CVM and teaches veterinary behavior to the public, veterinary students and fellow veterinarians. For her research on the use of behavioral medication to improve the welfare of cats, she was awarded the RK Anderson ACVB Resident Award and JFMS Resident Best Paper Award.
WEBSITE LINK: https://www.dacvb.org/page/webinarseries
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Webinar – 5/2/21 – Playgroups Part 1: The Why – Dogs Playing for Life
Learn about all the ways in which DPFL Playgroups are transforming shelters all across the country! In this first of three webinars, we will present powerful examples of how playgroups can not only enhance the quality of life for your shelter dogs but how focusing on their quality of life through enrichment can lead to game-changing benefits to your shelter’s everyday operations. Attendees will get to view dynamic video examples and impactful data and experiences from some of the nearly 300 shelters who have embraced the power of letting shelter dogs play!
This is a 1.5-hour presentation followed by a Q&A session. This webinar will not be recorded.
This course has been pre-approved for 1.5 continuing education unit (CEU) credits for:
Certified Animal Welfare Administrator (CAWA) by The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement (AAWA)
International Association of Canine Professionals (IACP)*Part 1 attendees will be sent the signup links to parts 2 & 3 upon completing the first webinar.
WEBSITE LINK: https://dogsplayingforlife.com/webinars/
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Webinar – 4/12/21 – The Science Behind Counter Conditioning – Dr. Kristina Spaulding, PhD, CAAB – PPG
Counter conditioning is one of the most common methods of reducing fear in dogs. This webinar will explore what the research has to say about the process of counter conditioning. Find out how counter conditioning works, how it’s related to extinction, what limitations it has, how it’s impacted by stress and what additional strategies we can use to enhance the treatment of fear. Even if you are experienced in the use of counter conditioning, you should get some useful information from this webinar. It’s excellent for beginners as well!
Free Webinar for PPG Members
CEUs: PPAB 1, CCPDT (pending), KPA (pending), IAABC (pending)
Learning Objectives:
- Explain how counter conditioning works.
- Discuss the benefits and limitations of counter conditioning.
- List several additional methods for reducing fear in dogs.
About the Presenter
Dr. Kristina Spaulding
Dr. Spaulding has a PhD in biopsychology – the study of the biological basis of behavior – and is a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist through the Animal Behavior Society. She specializes in stress and behavior, social cognition and emotion, positive welfare and the prevention and treatment of behavior problems in dogs. In addition to her academic background, she has been in the dog training and behavior profession for 19 years. She currently splits her time between private behavior work and teaching other dog trainers and behavior consultants online and through seminars and conferences.In addition, Dr. Spaulding is a long-standing member of the APDT Education Committee. She is also a member of the Fear Free Advisory Group and an authorized Speaker for Fear Free. She also chairs a task force for Meeting of the Minds, a coalition of top dog professionals across the country charged with improving the quality of life for our dogs and is a member of the IAABC Foundation Board. Use this link to find out more about her on her website: http://smartdogtrainingandbehavior.com/online-services/WEBSITE LINK: https://petprofessionalguild.com/event-4207614
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Webinar – 4/15/21 – Financial Pearls for Veterinary Professionals – VETGirl
In this complimentary VETgirl–Blue Buffalo webinar, The White Coat Investor, Dr. Jim Dahle, reviews financial tips and pearls for veterinary professionals. Tune in for some financial tips that will help veterinary professionals be successful in their careers. Increasing the financial security of veterinary professionals helps them to be better partners, parents, and doctors along with reducing burnout, decreasing suicide risk, and improving patient care. You don’t want to miss this important opportunity to learn!
Thanks to sponsorship from Blue Buffalo, this webinar is free to all!
Not a VETgirl ELITE member? VETgirl ELITE members receive 100+ hours of RACE-approved, online veterinary CE/year ($249). That way, you know that you have flexibility to view any of our webinars (including small animal, large animal, veterinary technician, leadership, practice management) and listen to our podcasts when you have time.
All the webinars are recorded and can be viewed 24/7 after their release date for CE credit. If you’re watching the recording later on, don’t forget to take the CE quiz with it when you’re done to get your CE certificate!
*Note: Viewing this webinar is for individual use only; VETgirl webinars are not designed nor meant to be viewed in a group setting due to RACE-CE audit purposes. Inappropriate sharing or viewing of the webinar may result in revoking of membership.
RACE-CE provider name: VETgirl, LLC
RACE Provider number: 20
RACE Program number: 812758/812762This program has been approved for continuing education credit in jurisdictions which recognize AAVSB RACE approval; however participants should be aware that some boards have limitations on the number of hours accepted in certain categories and/or restrictions on certain methods of delivery of continuing education. Call VETgirl (858.859.1838) for further questions.
WEBSITE LINK: https://vetgirlontherun.com/webinars/april-15-2021-financial-pearls-for-veterinary-professionals/