As dog trainers, we often excel at changing dog behaviour, but may forget the importance of communication skills. Our role as animal advocates and client advisors requires us to excel at communication too. Our ability to share our knowledge and coach new skills ultimately facilitates changing our client’s behaviour in order to change their dog’s behaviour. Good communication builds relationships, gets buy-in, creates passion, develops patience and fosters motivation when our clients are feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, confused or frustrated. Yet, relatively little of our education encompasses communication skills. This webinar focuses on communication strategies for obtaining a case history, the practical use of empathy and compassion, and providing constructive, personalised coaching and reinforcing feedback. We will discuss the value of silence, the use of analogies and humour, our own body language, and how to measure your communicative success. After all, good communication is a skill we can develop if we are self-aware enough! Participants will learn tips for tailoring communication for each individual client to optimise outcomes for training success.

Learning objectives:

• Understand the role communication skills play in building relationships with clients
• Identify opportunities to provide reinforcing feedback to clients
• Identify opportunities to provide constructive coaching to clients

Presenter: Petra Edwards PhD, BSc (Animal Behaviour) (Hons) Cert IV TAE. PCT-A, TAGTeach Level 2

WEBSITE LINK:  https://www.petprofessionalguild.com/webinars-events/webinars/considering-communication-strategies-to-improve-behaviour-change-in-clients/

In this complimentary, 1-hour VETgirl–Elanco webinar, Dr. Jessica Johnson, DAVDC will use case examples to discuss common oral pathologies in cats. Tune in as she reviews tooth resorption, periodontal disease, and buccal bone expansion, as well as the recommended treatments, which include multimodal pain control for your feline patients!

Thanks to sponsorship from Elanco, the recording of this webinar will be available to view free and On-Demand until September 9, 2024.

WEBSITE LINK:  https://vetgirlontherun.com/webinars/june-9-2024-the-cats-out-of-the-bag-what-you-need-to-know-about-feline-dentistry/

Say goodbye to enemas!

In this complimentary, 1-hour VETgirl – Royal Canin webinar, Dr. Ashlie Saffire, DVM, DABVP (Feline Practice) will discuss management strategies for acute and chronic constipation in cats. Tune in as Dr. Saffire reviews techniques you can use for acute obstipation and therapeutic options for managing and preventing chronic constipation cases!

Thanks to sponsorship from Royal Canin, the recording of this webinar will be available to view free and On-Demand until July 2, 2024. (Remember: you must be logged in as a free Basic, ELITE Trial or ELITE member to register for the live event)

WEBSITE LINK:  https://vetgirlontherun.com/webinars/june-2-2024-whats-new-with-feline-constipation-acute-chronic-treatment-modalities/

Kitten season brings many challenges and opportunities for shelter staff and the rescue community. Kittens are subject to illness and significant fear, anxiety, and stress during their most vulnerable period, and preparing now can help you make a positive impact on their physical and emotional wellbeing. Join us on May 22 at 8 p.m. ET, with Elite Fear Free Certified® Veterinary Technician, Tabitha Kucera, RVT, KPA-CTP, CCBC, VTS (Behavior), as we discuss how you can prepare for a successful kitten season.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• How to reduce FAS in kittens
• Techniques for handling and socializing kittens
• How to create a safe and supportive environment for kittens in need
• Practical strategies and tips, such as disinfecting with an effective product such as Rescue, for ensuring the physical and emotional wellbeing of kittens in your care

WEBSITE LINK:  https://fearfreellc.webinargeek.com/whiskers-on-the-way-a-fear-free-guide-to-kitten-season-preparation

Are you ready for a radically inclusive, radically strength-based, and radically visionary approach to systems change?

In your work to create a better world, you deserve to have approaches that actually change things. Not just changing a government policy or two, but true systems change, where we change the whole situation, the whole field.

That requires that we FIRST change how we’re THINKING about the situation. Because only when we change the way we see things do things really change.

Join Nonprofit AF’s Vu Le and Creating the Future’s Hildy Gottlieb as they explore what it really takes to create the humane, healthy, equitable world we want to live in.

Vu and Hildy will introduce a framework that will shift your thinking from reacting incrementally to what’s wrong in our communities, to creating what is possible. From scarcity and going it alone, to the power of radical inclusion and Collective Enoughness – sharing and building upon each other’s strengths.

If you’re tired of working your tail off to achieve only incremental, baby-step results, come join the conversation! Registration is free. We look forward to seeing you on May 23rd.

(Illustration by  Camila Leão for Fine ActsxOBI, CC license 4.0)

WEBSITE LINK:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ms7zsNX8SRels9RGk60W7A#/

Shelter and rescue workers like you are working tirelessly to save the lives of homeless dogs and cats across the country. Sometimes, we need to go back to the basics, like making it as easy as possible for people to adopt from or foster with you!

Join your peers from shelters and rescues, along with Best Friends staff, in a live Q&A discussion on open adoptions and fostering. This panel will feature Heather Owen, Executive Director & Co-Founder of One Tail at a Time; Lawrence Nicolas, President of Jacksonville Humane Society; Misha Goodman, Animal Care Services Director of Bernalillo County Animal Care and Resource Center; and Dawn Binion-Stewart, Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) for Best Friends Animal Society.

This webinar will equip you with tangible advice for breaking down barriers in your adoption and foster processes to include your entire community. Register to join live and submit your questions when you register.

WEBSITE LINK:  https://bestfriends-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/7117134723360/WN_lfloMG4HQEuO3yIUlh2fDA#/