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Veterinarians, shelter staff, volunteers and the animal loving public are raving about Maddie's® webcasts. More than 5,000 animal welfare enthusiasts have watched noted academics, shelter medicine experts and industry leaders deliver the most current information on topics such as anti-body titer testing, ringworm, community cats, social media for animal shelters and more. Most webcasts offer RACE CE for veterinarians.
"These webinars are bringing us the best and most current information in the field of animal welfare. As a 17-year veteran in the field, I wish I had this learning advantage when I first started...it would have saved so much learning by error! This is such an important contribution to our shelter and much appreciated. Thank you."
Upcoming Webcasts
Making the Case for a Paradigm Shift in Community Cat Management, Part One
June 27, 2013: Dr. Kate Hurley examines the assumptions underlying traditional sheltering practices and compares them to the most recent evidence-based information regarding the health and behavior impacts of stress on sheltered cats and the statistical likelihood of a live outcome for an unsocialized cat taken into a shelter. Read more
Making the Case for a Paradigm Shift in Community Cat Management, Part Two
July 11, 2013: Join some of the nation's leading experts on animal sheltering and community cats in a comprehensive Q&A panel discussion on the information in Dr. Hurley's webcast. Read more
In Case You Missed It:
Update on FIV: What Every Shelter Needs to Know
There is new information about FIV that can help shelters diagnose, treat and care for cats who test positive for the virus. Dr. Annette Litster, Director of Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program at Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, discusses her 5-year study which follows 89 pairs of age and sex-matched cats; each pair is composed of one FIV-positive cat and one FIV-negative cat. Read more
All Webcasts:
- Making the Case for a Paradigm Shift in Community Cat Management, Part Two
- Making the Case for a Paradigm Shift in Community Cat Management, Part One
- Update on FIV: What Every Shelter Needs to Know
- Using Social Media to Maximize Turnout for Maddie's Pet Adoption Days
- Orphaned Kittens: How Saving the Tiniest Lives has the Biggest Impact
- Cracking the Infection Control Code: Using and Interpreting Diagnostic Tests to Control Infectious Diseases in Shelters
- Shelter Dog Mod Squad: Identifying and Modifying Canine Behavior Problems in Shelters
- Fixing the Feline Housing Crisis: How Shelter Housing Can Make Cats Sick - And What You Can Do About It
- Knocking the Snot Out of Feline URI: Saving Shelter Cats' Lives with Treatment and Prevention
- How Animal Shelters Are Beating Ringworm (And Yours Can, Too!)
- Your Secret Feline Decoder Ring: Feline Behavior Assessments
- Social Media for Pet Adoption and Adoption Events
- In One Door and Out the Other: Practical Flow-Through Planning for Animal Shelters
- Magical Metrics and Dazzling Data: How Medical Fact-Finding Guides Shelters to Improved Animal Health
- Shelter Crowd Control: Keeping Community Cats Out of Shelters Webcast
- Do-It-Yourself Shelter Assessments: Learning to Use Maddie’s Animal Shelter Infection Control Tool
- The First 60 Minutes: Animal Sheltering's Critical Hour Webcast
- Saving Lives with Antibody Titer Tests