MMPC Learniverse - Clear the Air: Assessing and Improving Indoor Air Quality in Animal Shelters (On-Demand Webinar)
Recorded On: 02/19/2025
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Webinar Overview
Are you struggling with offensive odors, excess humidity, or persistent respiratory disease problems in your animal shelter? We can’t see the air around us, but we know it’s an important factor in the health and well-being of animals and people. How can you measure ventilation? What is a MERV rating? Is that air purifier in the cat ward helping?
View this webinar for answers to your biggest questions, plus practical recommendations on currently available tools to improve air quality - including some promising new technology.
By the end of this webinar, you’ll be able to:
- Assess your shelter’s air quality and its relationship to animal health
- Identify immediate, low- or no-cost steps you can take to improve air quality
- Evaluate air purifier options
Ready for a breath of fresh air? Learn how to create healthier breathing environments in your facility today, clearing the way to better outcomes for sheltered animals and the people who care for them.
Continuing Education Credits
This webinar has been approved for 1 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator (CAWA) continuing education credit by The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement (AAWA) and by National Animal Care and Control Association (NACA).
Contact
Email us at help@shelterlearniverse.com if you have any questions or concerns about this webinar.
Keywords
MMPC, learners, housing, odors, humidity, air, quality, respiratory diseases, ventilation
Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge
With the Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge, the Five Key Initiatives of the Million Cat Challenge have expanded to include other species at risk in shelters and evolved into the Four Rights.
Within the Four Rights, every element works in concert to support one another: animals and people are treated as individuals, empowering shelter staff to make the best decisions for everyone; community safety net services are in place and flourishing; and humane care within the shelter is provided, with appropriate outcomes for the animals that do come in, allowing shelters to deliver the Right Care, in the Right Place, at the Right Time, and to the Right Outcome
Learn more about Maddie's® Million Pet Challenge Learniverse. #ThankstoMaddie
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Denae Wagner, DVM, MPVM
Veterinarian
Koret Shelter Medicine Program, UC Davis
In her work for the Koret Shelter Medicine Program, Dr. Wagner has helped shelters from Florida to Vancouver. Her contributions have ranged from Capacity for Care (C4C) calculations and population health to full facility design consultations.After initially fashioning them by hand, Dr. Wagner oversaw the design and manufacture of the Kat Portal for the Koret Shelter Medicine Program. Over 5,000 of her hand-made and manufactured portals have been installed in animal shelters throughout North America and beyond, earning Dr. Wagner the nickname, The Portal Queen. The portals safely and cleanly couple pairs of existing cat cages, transforming cramped housing into roomier double-compartment condos.Dr. Wagner’s current interests include evidence based shelter design and the effects of housing and the shelter environment on animal health and well-being.
Becky (Rebecca) Stuntebeck
Facility Design Veterinarian UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program
UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program
Becky joined the KSMP team as a Facility Design Veterinarian in April 2022. She obtained her DVM degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine in 2013. She completed a shelter medicine internship at Dane County Humane Society via the KSMP team in 2014 and a shelter medicine residency with the UW Shelter Medicine Program in 2018, achieving board certification through the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners that Fall.
Becky has also worked as a shelter veterinarian at two private shelters in Wisconsin. In addition to facility design her interests include proactive population management and infectious disease prevention in shelters, as well as building relationships with folks across the sheltering field.
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