Rain, Sleet, or Snow — Indoor Training Your Dog Will Love
Don’t let the weather keep your dog from learning and having fun! This webinar is packed with innovative ways to train indoors using positive reinforcement. Whether you have a tiny apartment or a spacious home, a puppy or a senior dog, our expert panel will help you keep training fun, accessible, and enriching—using tools you likely already have around the house.
You’ll learn:
Why indoor training is essential to your dog’s well-being
How to make the most of small spaces
Ideas tailored for different ages and needs
Creative, affordable training setups
Dogs and Children: How to Promote Positive Relationships and Mitigate Risk - With Dr. Karen Griffin
Dogs and kids can be great together—when interactions are guided and respectful. This science-backed webinar covers best practices for families and shelter professionals to reduce risk and encourage positive child-dog relationships. Learn how to educate, monitor, and support both children and dogs to live happily and safely together.
How to Address Aggression in a Multi-Dog Household - With Alyssa Rose, CPDT-KA, Tiff Shao, CPDT-KA, Dr. Clare Browne, PhD, and Dr. Valli Fraser-Celin, PhD
Do your dogs struggle to get along? This webinar tackles aggression in multi-dog homes. Learn about realistic expectations, setting up your home for safety, identifying stress signals, and guiding your dogs toward peaceful coexistence. You’ll gain the tools to understand, manage, and gradually improve relationships between dogs in the same household.
On a Short Lead: Control, Safety, and the Origin of Leashed Dogs - With Dr. Neil Humphrey, PhD
Why do we leash dogs? This webinar explores how Victorian society turned the leash into a symbol of control, safety, and modernization. Learn about the social and practical shifts that made the leash an essential part of today’s dog culture—and how these changes shaped human-dog relationships.
How to Prepare Your Dog for Holiday Visitors - With Alyssa Rose, CPDT-KA, Tiff Shao, CPDT-KA, Dr. Clare Browne, PhD, and Dr. Valli Fraser-Celin, PhD
The holidays can be a stressful and chaotic time for our dogs! In this webinar, our panel of behavior experts will help you navigate challenges you might incur around the holidays with your dog, in order to keep them calm, cool, and collected! You will learn how to set the stage for calmer behavior with visitors, including young children, so that everybody is happy and safe. Planning ahead will help to minimize stress for both you and your dog around the holidays!
In the webinar, you'll learn...
Preparation: what to do (and not to do) before guests arrive
How to set the stage for calm introductions
What to do if your dog isn't settling down
How to read dog body language, knowing when to step in and help your dog out
What to do with guests that don't comply with your requests to give space (like that uncle that thinks he is a dog whisperer or young kids)
Navigating the Journey Your Pet Takes When You Cannot Care for It - With Dr. Debra Hamilton, Esq.
Have you ever considered what would happen to your dog if you're unable to take care of them? Making a plan for your dog's care in such an event has probably never even crossed most of our minds, but it is very important!
A Sanitary Revolution: How the Victorians Transformed Dirty Dogs into Hygienic Hounds - With Dr. Neil Humphrey, PhD
It is paradoxical that the same society responsible for implementing a modern, hygienic lifestyle was the first to conceive of pet dogs as intimate, home-dwelling companions. Cleanliness became one of Victorian society’s fundamental attributes. Dogs—increasingly understood as furry family members fundamental to modern, middle class lifestyles—had to be sanitized similarly to their human counterparts to live indoors. The cleanliness we expect of our pets today is part of a broader Victorian “sanitary revolution” that forever changed what was deemed acceptable for humans and dogs.
Do Words Matter: The Words Dog Trainers Use and Why - With Dr. Anamarie Johnson, PhD
Dog training and behavioral support play a key role in dog welfare. In the world of sheltering and rehoming, it can both help dogs develop new skills and better cope pre-adoption, and decrease the likelihood that a dog will be relinquished post-adoption.
In the current world of dog training, there are a range of training methods available to a pet owner. One commonly used delineation is between trainers who self-identify as reward-based (non-aversive methods) and those who identify as balanced (use some or all aversive methods). It can be incredibly challenging for pet owners to navigate the information presented to them, as a result, the words that are used to describe training methods are important. In this webinar, you’ll learn some tips to keep in mind when searching for a dog trainer.
What to Know About Fearful Behavior in Dogs -With Alyssa Rose, CPDT-KA
Fearful behavior in dogs is associated with an increased risk for relinquishment, especially for dogs who display it on a frequent basis. Therefore, gaining more insight into this type of behavior could increase the likelihood that a dog will remain in a home, while also improving the dog's well-being by helping them to decrease their fearful tendencies.
The World From Your Dog’s Point of View - With Dr. Julia Espinosa
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to experience the world as a dog? Even though they share the same environment with us, they have a completely different way of sensing and interacting with objects around them. In this talk, you will learn about research that has examined how dogs think about physical objects, their ability to recognize cause-and-effect relationships, and other vital cognitive processes that help dogs think about and navigate the world. Explore this webinar with Dr. Julia Espinosa, PhD.
Barriers to Access to Veterinary Care in Remote Indigenous Communities in Canada - With Valli Fraser-Celin, PhD
Barriers to veterinary care are a worldwide problem. These barriers can range in type, including financial constraints and living in a "veterinary care desert", and in some areas they are particularly unique. However, regardless of the nature of them, they can profoundly impact dog welfare.
This talk will present and discuss barriers to access to veterinary care for remote, Indigenous communities in Canada, how the lack of veterinary services affects both dogs and people, and how a One Health framework to veterinary service provision is a form of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Relaxation Training for Dogs That Are Anxious or Reactive with Visitors - With Alyssa Rose, CPDT-KA
Behavioral issues are the most common reasons that dogs are relinquished. They can be frustrating and difficult to live with, but also are symptomatic of a dog that is struggling to cope. Positively supporting dogs and their owners in addressing these issues leads to better relationships and improves dogs' welfare. This webinar will discuss how to set the stage for calm behavior for dogs that are anxious or reactive with guests. This includes dogs that bark, lunge, or jump excessively with people entering the home. You will learn how to create a calm, safe learning environment for your dog so that they can think through stress and over-arousal. We will also look at relaxation training - what it is and how it can help.
Dogs Are Carnivores, Right? - With Linda Case
There is much argument (and polarization) today regarding how best to feed our dogs. While some believe that dogs are obligate carnivores and are best fed a diet containing primarily meat, others maintain that dogs are more omnivorous in nature and are capable of thriving when fed a vegetarian diet. Where does the truth lie? Specifically, what does science tell us about the domestic dog’s essential nutrient requirements and feeding behavior? In this webinar, we examine the evidence that supports and refutes various beliefs about the domestic dog’s nutrient requirements, feeding behavior and nutritional health. Attendees will be encouraged to question and support their own beliefs and dog feeding practices as we explore what is currently understood about our canine best friend’s dietary needs, feeding behavior and health.