Animal Welfare Professionals

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• Welcome – Kristen Hassen, Director, American Pets Alive!  Today’s theme: Where have all the Shelter animals gone? And QOTD: tell us something about your childhood you’d like to share
• Mary Ippoliti-Smith, Maddie’s Fund – Take care of yourself and your staff; HSUS Expo promo
• National Updates
• Dr . Michael Blackwell, AlignCare Health
• Welcome new attendees
• Annette Ramirez, Director of Field Operations Lifesaving, Los Angeles Department of Animal Services - 4th of July event prep and other lifesaving programs 
• April Huntsman, Director of Animal Welfare Insights, Adopt-a-pet – deeper dive into data that shows the potential of helping people rehome their own pets
• Close

List of resources referenced during today’s call 

• Adopt-a-pet https://www.adoptapet.com/
  • April Huntsman april@adoptapet.com – email April for pdf of her deck
  • Aaron Klein aaron@adoptapet.com   

AVMA article https://www.avma.org/javma-news/2019-09-01/aligncare-starting-line 

AlignCare on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/aligncarehealth/ 

Best Friends’s research:  Reasons for Owner Surrender https://network.bestfriends.org/tools-and-information/research/owner-surrender-acquisition-source-analysis 

HASS toolkits https://www.humananimalsupportservices.org/pro-resources/ 

• Contact Annette.ramirez@lacity.org
• https://www.laanimalservices.com/
• https://laanimalservices.home-home.org/

Events/Books/Films/Podcasts/Webcasts/ 

AmPA! 8 unique calls to discuss a variety of volunteer related programs with several organizations. Register once and pick which calls you'd like to attend! https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvduqrqz8qGtwXr4G9DQpfULoHQ9UTbnxO 

Animal Care Expo April 21-23, 2021 registration https://humanepro.org/expo/registration/advance  

Beyond Cages by Justin Marceau (guest on 4/23) https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Cages-Animal-Criminal-Punishment/dp/1108405452 

Community Cats Podcasts 

Online Behavior Day April 17th - recordings will be available https://www.communitycatspodcast.com/online-behavior-day-2021/ 

Return to Home Day Sept 12 - send topic ideas to stacy@communitycatspodcast.com 

Humane Canada's Violence Link Conference Call for Abstracts - open until May 3, 2021 https://humanecanada.submittable.com/submit/190421/2021-canadian-violence-link-conference 

Maddie's Candid Conversation!  Join Mary Ippoliti-Smith with Ariel Zhang of The Animal Foundation - Tuesday, April 27 at 12n PT / 3pm ET.  
Register https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtcOihrzkrHNSjsaIaYZ3jbFSWGqg48lmq