Petfinder Members: Educational Webinars
Petfinder and Best Friends Animal Society have joined forces in order to offer you educational webinars on a host of critical issues in animal welfare.
Webinar Title: Risky Business: Liability and Risk Management Facing Animal Shelters and Rescuers
Webinar Speaker: Jill Buckley, Esq., ASPCA
Taping Date: July 15, 2009
Length: 90 minutes
Description: Jill Buckley, Esq. from the ASPCA, teaches us to identify common liability issues and develop preventive measures to protect your organization. Can you adopt a dog with a bite history? Can you implement foster programs, adoption events and other programs? Do you have adequate insurance coverage? Risk management assesses the potential dangers and determines whether you have taken reasonable precautions to protect people from harm.
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Webinar Title: Think Lost, Not Stray
Webinar Speaker: Kat Albrecht, founder of Missing Pet Partnership
Taping Date: March 11, 2009
Length: 90 minutes
Description: Learn what you can do to help save more animals in our shelters by understanding how lost pets impact our shelters. The webinar focuses on how lost pets (also known as "strays") contribute to higher shelter kill rates, feral cat colonies, and high homeless pet populations. Learn why strays go unclaimed in shelters, the challenges to recovering lost pets, what services shelters and rescue groups can offer, lost pet behaviors and more.
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Webinar Title: How to Help Feral Cats in Your Community: Win Win Solutions
Webinar Speaker: Bryan Kortis, Executive Director of Neighborhood Cats
Taping Date: January 14, 2009
Length: 60 minutes
Description: Hiding behind dumpsters, roaming in warehouse fields, darting across busy streets, in your backyard. Often, if animal control is called in to address the problem, trapping and euthanizing the cats is the standard policy. In addition to being cruel to the cats, this has proven to be an ineffective solution for controlling feral cat populations. But there is a better way! Join us for an introduction to TNR - what it is, how it works, and why it makes sense for the cats, their caretakers and the community, including animal shelters. Trap, Neuter, Return (TNR) programs all over the country are saving lives and receiving accolades for being win-win solutions.
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Webinar Title: Saving Cats in Busy Shelters through Better Handling
Webinar Speaker: Susan Cosby, Executive Director of Animal Welfare Association in Voorhees, NJ
Taping Date: December 5, 2008
Length: 60 minutes
Description: How can you improve your ability to save cats' lives when faced with a lot of cats and not much of anything else? Sue Cosby shares her story of improving the health and well-being of cats in a busy, urban, animal control shelter. By changing the way cats are handled and viewed by your staff and volunteers, you too can have a dramatic impact on their lives.
