Accomplishing the Goal of Successful Outcomes
Recorded On: 07/24/2025
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This course is part of Maddie's Monthly Behavior Connection, monthly webcasts about pet behavior - supporting pets in our community and animal shelters.
In this talk, Dr. Carley Faughn will focus on behavioral outcomes for cats and dogs, with an emphasis on large dogs but relevant to all animals. How do you communicate behavior challenges to potential fosters and/or adopters? How does your team discuss these challenges among themselves? How does your team work to de-escalate conversations with potential fosters/adopters as well as the community? What happens once an animal leaves your shelter that has behavior challenges? Dr. Faughn will share tips for all of these questions, with real life examples from 20+ years of experience in animal welfare. Meaningful goals are to keep pets and families safe, together, and happy. In this talk, you will learn ways to accomplish increased lifesaving within your shelter and next foregoing into community homes. Attendees will learn about:
· Tips for safely getting dogs with behavior challenges into foster and ready for adoption with efficient timelines.
· What you can do in and out of the shelter to capture and highlight animals’ fundamental qualities
· Proven strategies for supporting animals with behavior concerns after adoption with a focus on follow-ups, who should be involved in the follow-ups, and ways to keep track of significant behavior information after dogs leave the shelter.
· De-escalation techniques when communicating with distraught fosters, adopters, and the community, as well as working with their own team members.
· How to create a “Tip Sheet Template” to be individually designed for animals moving into foster care and/or adoptive homes
Speaker: Carley Faughn, PhD, CAAB, Outcomes & Behavior Manager at the Humane Society of Vero Beach & Indian River County
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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Carley Faughn, PhD, CAAB
Outcomes & Behavior Manager
Humane Society of Vero Beach & Indian River County
Dr. Carley Faughn (PhD, CAAB) has worked with canines, felines and nonhuman primates since 2007, merging her passion for comparative cognition, animal welfare, animal rescue while supporting the communities in which she has lived and beyond. Dr. Faughn is a certified applied animal behaviorist (CAAB) and currently serves as the Outcomes & Behavior Manager at the Humane Society of Vero Beach & Indian River County. She has provided numerous presentations (in-person and virtually) at conferences nationally and internationally throughout her career. Her purpose is helping animals in shelters as well as keeping pets and families together within all communities. She has worked extensively with dogs (and cats) with advanced behavior challenges and implemented behavior modification plans to better provide these animals learned skills from repeated practice resulting with success. Dr. Faughn is respectful & enthusiastic with providing virtual behavior and shelter consultations along with in-person consultations across the country. In order to develop creative wellness and enrichment plans to facilitate teachings about animal behavior and cognition via Dr. Faughn’s behavior & shelter consulting company, ZenPet has proven to be significant & empowering. Before joining the Humane Society of Vero Beach, Dr. Faughn held various roles within Best Friends Animal Society. This includes but not limited to Dogtown manager to senior manager of animal care to her past position focusing on applied research within the lifesaving scope. She served as executive director of Acadiana Animal Aid in Lafayette, Louisiana, and completed her PhD in cognitive science at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2014
In her free time, Dr. Faughn enjoys serving on the Board of Directors for Free Dog Training, hiking with her dog Charlie, spending time with her cat Cochi, as well as kayaking, swimming, yoga, meditation, being outdoors and doing all of these things with her life partner.
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