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Learn tips from a behavior professional that will help you get more comfortable and have more success in dog-to-dog matchmaking.
This course is part of Maddie's Monthly Behavior Connection, monthly webcasts about pet behavior - supporting pets in our community and animal shelters.
Conducting dog meets for adopters and their resident dogs can feel stressful and full of pressure. What if it doesn't go well? How can I tell if they actually like each other? What do they do when they get home?
All of these questions and more are answered during this session! From quick body language cues, to tips and tricks for integration, to having tough conversations – maybe the dog they chose isn't a good fit! – Sam guides you through the do's and don'ts to help you get more comfortable and have more success in dog to dog matchmaking.
Presenter: Samantha Wolfman of the Animal Welfare League of Arlington and Wolfman Dog Training and Consulting
This webinar has been pre-approved for 1.0 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credits by The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement and by the National Animal Care & Control Association.
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Samantha Wolfman
Director of Behavior and Pathway Planning
Animal Welfare League of Arlington
Sam has loved dogs for as long as she can remember, even though she wasn’t allowed to have one growing up. As an adult, Sam got her first dog, and after discovering that her new companion was extremely reactive to other dogs, she immersed herself into the world of animal behavior…and never wanted to leave. Sam said goodbye to her career path in fashion merchandising, and began her work at the Animal Welfare League of Arlington in 2019 helping animals find new homes. Sam was so inspired by the passion and knowledge of those working with and around her, that she jumped at the chance to join the behavior team at the shelter in 2020. After working with a variety of dogs, and a variety of behaviors, Sam received her CPDT-KA in 2021 and she is constantly looking to expand her knowledge, while supporting and enriching the human-animal relationship
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Learn about the research showing the value of using standardized rating tools to evaluate feline behavior and welfare in shelters.
Maddie's® Insights are monthly webcasts with practical tips based on current research to help pets and people.
Program Description:
Safeguarding the well-being of cats is essential to the mission of any responsible animal shelter. Environmental enrichment and behavior modification are often key to this goal. Measuring response to these interventions is essential to ensure strategies are successful. This webinar will present four ordinal rating scales designed to evaluate different expressions of cat behavior/welfare on a 0–5 scale (modified Fear, Anxiety, and Stress score; Response to Petting score; Participation in Play score; and Food Intake Summary score) that have excellent inter-observer agreement and reliability, and a few other tools to describe behavior in a quantitative way. These tools are exceptionally useful to evaluate the response individual cats have to specific interventions, make decisions about which interventions should be tried first by looking at what was effective in cases presenting similarly in the past, and evaluating the efficacy of different interventions across a population of similar cats in a research project.
What you'll come away with:
- An understanding of the value of using standardized rating tools to evaluate behavior and welfare in shelters
- The ability to identify a range of practical applications for these tools, in both in the shelter and beyondPresenter: Jacklyn Ellis, PhD, Director of Behavior, Toronto Humane Society
This webinar has been pre-approved for 1.0 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credits by The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement and by the National Animal Care & Control Association. It has also been approved for 1 hour of continuing education credit in jurisdictions which recognize RACE approval between 9/26/24 - 9/25/26. Complete the quiz to earn continuing education credit.
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Jacklyn J Ellis, PhD
Director of Behavior
Toronto Humane Society
Jacklyn Ellis is board certified by the Animal Behavior Society as a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist, is Certified in Shelter Behavior – Cat by the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants and is the Director of Behavior at Toronto Humane Society. She earned her PhD in Animal Welfare at the Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, where she conducted research on methods for reducing stress in shelter cats. Her work has been published widely in peer reviewed journals and she has presented at many national and international conferences, particularly on feline stress and elimination behavior. She has recently authored two chapters for a new edition of the leading textbook on the behavior and welfare of shelter animals.
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Learn about a path for having more effective conversations with rental housing providers while empowering pet owners with the information they need to access pet-inclusive rental housing.
This webcast was part of the Camp Maddie: Pet-Inclusive Housing Edition virtual seminar.
Animal shelters and rescues are often on the receiving end of pet surrenders due to complex rental housing issues that are difficult to address in the moment. Recognizing the need for sustainable solutions, Michelson Found Animals’ Pet-Inclusive Housing Initiative (PIHI) has developed resources to help animal welfare organizations more effectively engage rental housing providers with pet-inclusive approaches to help build happier, healthier communities. Through this session, the PIHI team provides a path for having more effective conversations with rental housing providers while empowering pet owners with the information they need to access pet-inclusive rental housing.
Presenters: Ross Barker and Sara Maria Muriello, Michelson Found Animals' Pet-Inclusive Housing Initiative
This webinar has been pre-approved for 1.0 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credits by The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement and by the National Animal Care & Control Association.
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Ross Barker
Program Director of Pet-Inclusive Housing Initiative
Michelson Found Animals
Ross Barker is the Program Director for the Pet-Inclusive Housing Initiative (PIHI) at Michelson Found Animals Foundation. A research professional for more than twenty years, Ross has worked in the pet care area for the past decade. Prior to joining Michelson, Ross led research and innovation teams for Banfield Pet Hospital and Kinship, both part of the Mars Petcare organization.
Ross recently earned a master’s degree in Public Policy with an emphasis in social policy from Oregon State University, where he also worked in the Oregon State Policy Analysis Lab. Additionally, Ross holds an MBA from Northwestern University and a BS in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.
Sara Maria Muriello
Senior Program Manager of Pet-Inclusive Housing Initiative
Michelson Found Animals
Sara Maria Muriello is the Senior Program Manager for the Pet-Inclusive Housing Initiative (PIHI) at Michelson Found Animals Foundation. Prior to joining Michelson, Sara worked in the animal welfare field for over a decade, leading operations teams at Pasadena Humane in Pasadena, California and directing project management at the Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society.
Sara recently completed the ABA-approved paralegal studies program at the University of California, San Diego and holds certificates in nonprofit management and animal shelter management from the University of California, Irvine and University of the Pacific, respectively. Sara graduated with a BA degree from the University of California, Irvine.-
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In this presentation, the HEART LA team provides a brief overview of the legal protections for tenants with pets and the eviction process. They also discuss data-driven practices and how they inform all areas of our programming from legal services to policy & advocacy, and community engagement.
This webcast was part of the Camp Maddie: Pet-Inclusive Housing Edition virtual seminar.
Housing Equity & Advocacy Resource Team (HEART LA) is dedicated to ensuring that legal protections for tenants with pets are not just theoretical but actively applied in the real world to prevent housing insecurity. Many tenants, especially those with emotional support animals (ESAs), face legal barriers and discrimination from landlords despite existing protections. Their mission is to bridge this gap by using legal interventions to secure housing rights and provide tenants with the security they deserve. They believe that no one should be forced to choose between their home and their pet, and our work focuses on translating legal rights into real-world protections that keep people and their animals together.
In this presentation, the HEART LA team provides a brief overview of the legal protections for tenants with pets and the eviction process. They also discuss data-driven practices and how they inform all areas of our programming from legal services to policy & advocacy, and community engagement.
Presenters from HEART LA: Dianne Prado, Founder and President; Diana Cruz, Program Director; Zaira Bernal, Paralegal
This webinar has been pre-approved for 1.0 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credits by The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement and by the National Animal Care & Control Association.
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Dianne Prado
Founder & President
Housing Equity & Advocacy Resource Team (HEART LA)
Dianne Prado is the Founder and President of Housing Equity & Advocacy Resource Team, also known as HEART LA. HEART LA is a legal non-profit that helps ensure people and their pets remain housed. Dianne is also an appointed public member of the California Veterinary Medical Board, a trainer and consultant for the Stay Housed Los Angeles Eviction Defense Program, and Lecturer in Law for UCLA Law School, teaching Los Angeles Housing Law and Policy.
Diana Cruz
Program Director and Law Clerk
Housing Equity & Advocacy Resource Team (HEART LA)
Diana Cruz came to HEART LA as a client in 2018 and officially joined the team in 2020. She has a background in Student Affairs, capacity building as an Americorps VISTA, and studied at UC Davis. She is committed to helping ensure that people are able to access and maintain their housing with their animal companions. She lives with a silly cat named Icarus and a goofy dog named Ranger.
Zaira Bernal
Paralegal
Housing Equity & Advocacy Resource Team (HEART LA)
Zaira Bernal joined HEART LA in 2023. Prior to working with HEART LA, Zaira aided domestic violence survivors at Domestic Violence Project, led by the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Counsel for Justice. She also served as a paralegal at Eviction Defense Network, a non-profit dedicated to closing the access to justice gap in eviction proceedings. Zaira lives with her bestie, an effervescent pup named Ophelia.
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How dog-inclusive housing improves both mental and physical health, lowers stress, and keeps pets out of shelters and the real impact this has on families and communities nationwide.
This webcast was part of Camp Maddie: Pet-Inclusive Housing Edition virtual seminar.
Dog-inclusive housing isn’t just about allowing pets—it’s about keeping families together and creating healthier, more compassionate communities. Across the country, many pet owners face tough choices due to housing restrictions, often having to give up their dogs. By embracing dog-inclusive policies, we can help families stay together and create neighborhoods where pets are valued as part of the family.
In this presentation Shannon Glenn, Executive Director of My Pit Bull is Family, shares insights from over 13 years of advocating for dog inclusive rentals, showing how dog-inclusive housing improves both mental and physical health, lowers stress, and keeps pets out of shelters. She breaks down the real impact this has on families and communities nationwide, and discusses how everyone benefits when housing is accessible to all—pets included.
Presenter: Shannon Glenn, Executive Director, My Pit Bull is Family
This webinar has been pre-approved for 1.0 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credits by The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement and by the National Animal Care & Control Association.
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Shannon Glenn
Executive Director
My Pit Bull is Family
Shannon started with My Pit Bull is Family in 2014 and quickly became an expert in housing policy and surrender prevention for the animal welfare community. She has an extensive professional background in grassroots campaigns, voter outreach, community building, fundraising, homeless advocacy, and policy creation. Shannon is a tireless advocate for adults experiencing homelessness and was previously the Shelter Supervisor for the only pet-friendly emergency homeless shelter in the state of Minnesota.
Shannon holds a Master’s in Advocacy and Political Leadership where she centered her degree program around drafting policies to end housing and insurance discrimination for families with large dogs and graduated from the Executive Leadership Certification program for Animal Welfare at Southern Utah University in partnership with Best Friends Animal Society in 2021.
In 2019, Shannon developed the North Minneapolis Pet Resource Center program after volunteering at Minneapolis Animal Care and Control where she realized that her neighbors in North Minneapolis lacked access to quality pet food, supplies and resources leading to increased owner surrenders and at large pets.
She lives in North Minneapolis – Minnesota with her partner, Anthony, their four dogs Charlotte, Fern, Luna Tuna and Wilbur, and cat Max. You can usually find Shannon spending her free time binging true crime shows, skating in circles learning how to play roller derby, & dreaming about traveling.-
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An overview of three elements of the human homeless response system: diversion and prevention, emergency shelters and interim housing, and permanent housing
This webcast was part of Camp Maddie: Pet-Inclusive Housing Edition virtual seminar.
Homelessness is a growing epidemic in the United States. According to the State of Homelessness: 2024 Edition report released by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, a record-high 653,104 people experienced homelessness on a single night in January 2023, more people than ever are experiencing homelessness for the first time, and severe housing cost burden is on the rise. A growing body of evidence also shows that housing and homelessness has significant impacts on the surrender of animals to animal shelters, with housing-related surrenders making up about 14% of overall intakes. Therefore, the design, efficacy, and service delivery of the human homeless response system should be of interest to the animal welfare field for more informed advocacy and program design.
This 1-hour webinar will provide an overview of three elements of the human homeless response system: diversion and prevention, emergency shelters and interim housing, and permanent housing. By understanding these major components of the human homeless response system, attendees will have more clarity on how to advocate for and design programs to support pet-inclusive solutions. By the end of this webinar, attendees will be able to:
- Define three major components of any community’s human homeless response system
- Name at least one area of potential collaboration between your animal welfare organization and a housing and/or homelessness organizationPresenter: Christine Kim, Founder, My Dog is My Home
This webinar has been pre-approved for 1.0 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credits by The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement and by the National Animal Care & Control Association.
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Christine Kim
Founder
My Dog Is My Home
Christine is a macro social worker with a specialized interest in building programs and policies that recognize the power of the human-animal bond. During her time working in supportive housing, Christine became acutely aware of the barriers people experiencing homelessness with animals face when attempting to access shelter and housing services. Christine’s research and work with human-animal homeless families includes a publication in the pioneering book Animals in Social Work: Why and How They Matter (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), an exhibition for The Animal Museum called My Dog Is My Home and the founding of the non-profit organization by the same name. She served as the first director of the NYC Mayor's Office of Animal Welfare under Mayor Bill de Blasio, and she is the recipient of the ASPCA’s 2021 Public Service Humane Awards for her leadership at the NYC’s Mayor’s Office during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Learn strategies to effectively market hard-to-place shelter pets to fosters and adopters, as well as practical tips and innovative methods for presenting challenging pets in a way that highlights their strengths while addressing potential concerns.
This course is part of Maddie's Monthly Foster Connection, monthly webcasts about foster care - supporting pets in our community and animal shelters.
With every shelter stuffed to bursting, finding fosters and adopters is crucial. For some pets this is simple, but others are harder to place. In this workshop, we’ll discuss your favorite long stay pets to identify strategies for marketing them to fosters and adopters. This workshop is not just for foster staff– it’s open to anyone who is interested in marketing pets who are harder to place!
Make sure to bring information about your own favorite or most challenging long stay. We’ll choose several and work through them together, discussing what works, what doesn’t work and some innovative new ways that can get extra attention and help them find the right home. We’ll discuss how we talk about behavioral and health challenges in bios and social media and discuss the optimal ways to be frank about issues while also not deterring potential adopters. We’ll look at different social media channels and how to optimize content about those pets for those channels to get the message across and help these pets put their best paw forward. Be prepared for a fun, frank and useful webinar with a lot of workshopping and participation!
Presenter: Finnegan Dowling, Maddie's® Program and Social Media Manager for Mutual Rescue ™
This webinar has been pre-approved for 1.0 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credits by The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement and by the National Animal Care & Control Association.
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Finnegan Dowling
finnegan.dowling@gmail.com
Maddie's® Program and Social Media Manager for Mutual Rescue ™
Finnegan Dowling has been in animal welfare for more than 25 years and has worked in shelters in Washington, Colorado, California, and Nicaragua. Prior to working for Mutual Rescue, she was the social-media manager for HSSV where her work was honored with Shorty and Communicator Awards. Finnegan's writing has been published in The Bark, Bay Woof, and Huffington Post. In her current role she works with shelters around the country to help them start day foster programs. She often presents on day fostering and marketing at animal welfare conferences. She has spoken at Best Friends, Virginia Federation of Humane Societies, New Mexico Humane Conference and many others. She lives in coastal Texas with an opinionated dog and her husband.
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Help dogs cope better in a shelter environment with the support of medication
This presentation is part of Maddie's Monthly Behavior Connection, monthly webcasts about pet behavior - supporting pets in our community and animal shelters.
This session covers how to help dogs cope better in a shelter environment with the support of medication.
Presenter: Meghan E. Herron, DVM, DACVB, Senior Director, Behavioral Medicine Research, Education and Outreach, Gigi's
This webinar has been pre-approved for 1.0 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credits by The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement and by the National Animal Care & Control Association.-
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Learn about maintenance behavior medications and how to identify dogs who can benefit from them
This presentation is part of Maddie's Monthly Behavior Connection, monthly webcasts about pet behavior - supporting pets in our community and animal shelters.
This session covers:
• What are the indications and contraindications for maintenance behavior medications, and how to identify the dogs who can benefit from them
• What are the types of maintenance behavior medications
• How to choose the right behavior medication for each dog, based on their diagnosis, history, and individual needs within a sheltering environment
• How to prescribe, administer, monitor, and adjust behavior medications for optimal results and minimal side effects
• How to communicate and educate the owners or adopters of shelter dogs on behavior medications, and what to expect during and after the treatmentPresenter: Dr. E'Lise Christensen, Board-Certified Veterinary Behaviorist and Chief Medical Officer at Behavior Vets
This webinar has been pre-approved for 1.0 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credits by The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement and by the National Animal Care & Control Association.-
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How do you support a dog who is a wallflower in the shelter? How about a socially awkward dog, or an adrenaline junkie? Learn how to help foster caregivers help dogs who need extra behavior support.
How do you support a dog who is a wallflower in the shelter? How about a socially awkward dog, or an adrenaline junkie? This course is designed to teach shelter and rescue professionals to identify common behavior problems in shelter dogs and break down barriers for foster homes. Taking on a dog that presents with concerning behaviors can be a daunting task for a foster caregiver, especially a new foster. Training shelter staff and volunteers to assist and support foster dogs during their stay not only empowers foster caregivers to take on more cases, but also increases positive outcomes for dogs that present with behavior concerns.
This course has been pre-approved for 4.0 continuing education units for trainers in the knowledge area from the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers.
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