Maddie's® Insights is our ongoing webcast series with practical tips based on current research to help pets and people. Join us in April for a program that looks at common health and behavior concerns in dogs after their adoption in the UK. Our speakers are Drs. @Eleanor Jordan and Lauren Samet, both of Dogs Trust, a British animal welfare charity and humane society which specializes in the well-being of dogs. It is the largest dog welfare charity in the United Kingdom, caring for over 15,000 animals each year.
Thursday, April 16 at 12n Pacific for one hour. This webcast will be recorded.
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Each year, thousands of dogs are relinquished to rehoming organizations and adopted into new homes. Like many dog owners, adopters often encounter early health and behavior concerns-but for adopted dogs, these challenges can sometimes lead to returns.
In 2018, Dogs Trust, the UK's largest dog welfare charity, launched a post-adoption support program. Adopters from any UK Dogs Trust Rehoming Centre receive follow-up calls about their dog's health and behavior at 2 days, 2 weeks, and 4 months after adoption.
This presentation reviews the program's methodology and participant cohort, highlights the most common adopter-reported concerns, examines use of behavior support (and reasons it's declined), and explores return-to-kennel rates, including when and why dogs are returned.
By the end of the webcast you will be able to:
• Understand common health and behavior concerns in dogs post-adoption in the UK
• Learn where adopters in the UK may seek advice from after adopting a dog
• Explore how embedding post-adoption support into the adoption process in the UK impacts engagements with the service.
Earn continuing education credit from The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement towards 1.0 CAWA CEs. This webinar has also been pre-approved for 1.0 continuing education credits by the National Animal Care & Control Association (NACA). It has also been approved for 1 hour of continuing education credit in jurisdictions which recognize RACE approval for on-demand viewers. We will post the recording on Maddie's University a day or so after the live webcast.
About our speakers
Eleanor Jordan, BSc, MSc, PhD is the Data Science and Analytics manager at Dogs Trust. She has worked in rehoming research for the last 4 years and played a major role in the digitalization of rehoming operations at Dogs Trust. Her current role involves delivering advanced analytics and data insights to support Dogs Trust's operations, services and strategy.
Lauren Samet, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, DTTLS, is the Welfare & Rehoming Services Research Manager at Dogs Trust, she leads and delivers mixed-methods research projects, as well as operational data integrity and insight development, both of which help inform rehoming strategy and dog welfare standards. She currently has specific research interests in dog welfare and behavioural assessment, human-animal interactions, re-relinquishment, and optimising the adoption process for dogs, staff, and adopters.
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