Dog Behavior Collection: Assessment and Outcome Decision Making
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When it comes to behavior assessment and outcome decision making, you’ll often find a lot of information, but most of it isn’t backed by science.
This collection includes content about assessing dog behavior (such as risk assessment, functional assessment and problem-oriented behavior records) and making decisions about outcomes for dogs with unwanted behavior.
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Contains 8 Component(s), Includes Credits
Shifting organizational culture around behavioral euthanasia and communicating an organization's stance and decisions to stakeholder groups
This presentation was part of Camp Maddie: Behavior Edition (Day 1, Presentation 2)
Communicating Behavioral Euthanasia Decisions to Stakeholders
Leah Craig Chumbley, Executive Director at Brother Wolf Animal Rescue, discusses shifting organizational culture around behavioral euthanasia and communicating an organization's stance and decisions to stakeholder groups, including staff, volunteers, partner shelters, fosters, donors, community supporters and adopters.
Presenter: Leah Craig Chumbley Executive Director at Brother Wolf Animal Rescue
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Quality of Life & Safety: Before and After at Lynchburg Humane Society
In this video Kristen Brown, VSA-CDT, Pet Help and Behavior & Training Manager at Lynchburg Humane Society, discusses how her organization has worked diligently over the past 2 years to refine their process for behavior euthanasia to ensure safe adoption placements, objective evaluation standards, ethical considerations for quality of life, and a peaceful end of life process for behaviorally challenged pets.
Presenter: Kristen Brown, VSA-CDT, Pet Help and Behavior & Training Manager, Lynchburg Humane Society
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Internal Notification Process for Behavioral Euthanasia at Austin Pets Alive!
Euthanasia decisions are hard enough without communication difficulties and people feeling left out of the loop. In this video, Stephanie Bilbro, Director of Operations at Austin Pets Alive!, discusses their process for ensuring that all interested staff and volunteers are informed appropriately when a euthanasia decision has been made for a dog in their care.
Presenter: Stephanie Bilbro, Director of Operations, Austin Pets Alive!
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Visit Maddie's Pet Forum to continue the conversation or ask questions about Camp Maddie: Behavior Edition: https://maddies.fund/BxCampTheHardStuff
Please email maddiesuniversity@maddiesfund.org if you have any technical questions.
keywords: Camp Maddie, behavior, euthanasia, Camp Maddie Behavior, Camp Maddie Behavior Edition, dog behavior
Leah Craig Chumbley
Executive Director
Brother Wolf Animal Rescue
Leah Craig Chumbley has worked in the nonprofit sector since 2009, driven by a desire to decrease suffering and increase joy in the world. She is currently the Executive Director of Brother Wolf Animal Rescue in Asheville, North Carolina, where she is honored to work to better the lives of companion animals and the people who love them.
Kristen Brown, VSA-CDT
Pet Help and Behavior & Training Manager
Lynchburg Humane Society
Kristen Brown joined the Lynchburg Humane Society in 2021. She graduated with a Master of Nonprofit Management from Liberty University in 2023 and is a Victoria Stilwell Academy Certified Dog Trainer. As the Pet Help & Behavior Manager of the Lynchburg Humane Society, Kristen manages the intake of all pets, evaluates dogs, develops and implements behavior plans, designs playgroups and enrichment schedules, runs multiple public training classes, and more. Kristen is also involved in special projects such as Pathway Planning and creating a system for volunteer dog walking.
Stephanie Bilbro
Director of Operations
Austin Pets Alive!
Stephanie Bilbro joined Austin Pets Alive! as the Director of Operations in 2018. With a background in the hospitality industry, Stephanie discovered her passion for animal welfare over 15 years ago when she began volunteering in her hometown’s animal shelter. Since then, her experience has ranged from shelter behavior and medical work, to managing a rural sanctuary for former laboratory animals, to serving as Shelter Manager at Wyoming’s largest open admission shelter before moving to Austin. In her time at APA!, Stephanie has overseen a variety of ever-growing operations teams where staff and volunteers work side-by-side on a daily basis to care for over 11,000 animals every year. Stephanie currently lives in south Austin with her senior dog, Eli, and her long-term foster pup, Ursula.
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Contains 8 Component(s), Includes Credits
Discuss risk factors that can affect the likelihood of achieving a safe and successful outcome for dogs with a history of aggressive behavior.
This presentation was part of Camp Maddie: Behavior Edition (Day 1, Presentation 1)
Risk Assessment of Dogs with a History of Aggressive Behavior
Veterinarians and behavior professionals are frequently faced with questions about aggressive behaviors that may include biting, scratching, lunging, or threatening postures. As with other behavioral questions, it is rare for there to be a single “right” answer to a question, or a “one size fits all” solution to the problem that is occurring. This presentation from Chris Pachel, DVM, DACVB, CABC, and Owner of Animal Behavior Clinic, LLC, will discuss risk factors that affect the likelihood of achieving a safe and successful outcome for these dogs.
Presenters: Chris Pachel, DVM, DACVB, CABC
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Visit Maddie's Pet Forum to continue the conversation or ask questions about Camp Maddie: Behavior Edition: https://maddies.fund/BxCampRiskAssessment
Please email maddiesuniversity@maddiesfund.org if you have any technical questions.
keywords: Camp Maddie, behavior, Camp Maddie Behavior, Camp Maddie Behavior Edition, dog behavior
Chris Pachel (Moderator)
DVM, DACVB, CABC, Owner of Animal Behavior Clinic, LLC
Dr. Chris Pachel is a board-certified veterinary behaviorist and is the owner and lead clinician at the Animal Behavior Clinic in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Pachel lectures extensively worldwide, teaches courses at multiple veterinary schools in the United States, and has authored numerous articles and book chapters for veterinarians and pet owners. He is a sought-after expert witness for legal cases and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for dvm360. He is also a Vice-president of Veterinary Behavior for Instinct Dog Behavior and Training, as well as co-owner of Instinct Portland, which opened in the fall of 2020.
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Contains 4 Component(s), Includes Credits
How animal welfare organizations can assess the risk of placing dogs into the community
You know that famous saying, ‘No risk, No reward’? There’s risk in almost everything we do. When it comes to animal welfare, we’re fortunate that seriously aggressive behavior is rare. Even if infrequent, we hope to protect public safety by preventing animals at high risk of causing serious harm from being placed in homes. Behavior assessment tests were standard of care; however, we now know that behavior assessment tests of shelter dogs don’t reliably and accurately predict the occurrence of aggressive behavior in a home environment. So how do we identify animals who are a significant public safety risk and protect the public? During this presentation, we’ll talk about risk assessment and how animal welfare organizations can assess the risk of placing dogs into the community.
Presenter: Sheila Segurson, DVM, DACVB, CDBC, CCBC, Director of Research @ Maddie’s Fund
This lecture has been approved for 1 hour of continuing education credit in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval.
This lecture has also 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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keywords behavior assessment, shelter medicine, 2022 ASPCA Maddie's Cornell Shelter Medicine Conference, shelter dogs, dog aggression, aggressive behavior, public safely, risk assessment
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Contains 5 Component(s), Includes Credits
This talk will walk you through the existing (and pending!) research on behavioral euthanasia to help us separate fact from fiction.
Maddie's® Insights are monthly webcasts with practical tips based on current research to help pets and people.
Behavioral euthanasia is a sensitive topic with a wide variety of personal thoughts and emotions. But what do we actually know about it? How often does it happen, and why? Do we have data we can use to make decisions? Where can we turn for information? This talk will walk you through the existing (and pending!) research on behavioral euthanasia to help us separate fact from fiction.
Learning Objectives
In this session, attendees will come away with:
● An understanding of the history of research on behavioral euthanasia and the gaps
● A summary of the 2024 paper "Factors Associated with Behavioral Euthanasia in Pet Dogs" and learn about the methods used (and why)
● The types of behaviors that led to euthanasia in this study, and the information we can (and can't) use from it to make decisions
● The main findings of the study, including pieces that agree or disagree with previous literature
● The limitations of research like this, and the potential for future study
● Takeaways for pet professionals based on this research and resources available for folks in this situation
Presenter: Miranda Hitchcock, MS Applied Animal Behavior, CDBC, CBCC-KA, CPDT-KA, Fear Free Certified
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 8/19/24 - 8/19/26. Complete the quiz to earn continuing education credit.
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Miranda Hitchcock, MS
Co-founder and Executive Director
Every Dog Behavior and Training
Miranda is the co-founder and executive director of Every Dog Behavior and Training, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing inclusive, accessible dog training and behavior resources.
She began working with dogs as a volunteer at an animal shelter and fell down the rabbit hole of behavior. She moved to Austin for a Maddie’s Executive Leadership Fellowship with two of Austin’s shelters before becoming the operations manager at the municipal animal shelter.
Miranda left sheltering to found Every Dog in 2019, taking her behavior and leadership expertise to the nonprofit world. She is a certified dog trainer and multi-certified dog behavior consultant. She holds a master’s degree in applied animal Behavior and Welfare from Virginia Tech. In 2024, her first research paper on behavioral euthanasia was published in the journal Frontiers of Veterinary Science.
When not working, Miranda loves rock climbing, listening to fantasy audiobooks, and snuggling with her pittie, Nina.
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