Animal Welfare Professionals

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• Welcome: Kristen Hassen, Director, American Pets Alive! - QOTD: What is THE one thing you are most excited about?  
  Upcoming Friday meetings: 
        4/16 MCVMA video https://www.mcvma.org/wakeup 
        4/23 Justin Marceau, author of Beyond Cages 
• Mary’s Motivational Moment: Mary Ippoliti-Smith, Maddie’s Fund- Shout-out for next week’s Humane Canada National Animal Welfare Conference 
• National Updates 
• Kelly Spoon, Development Director, Dreams for Change - Safe Parking and other initiatives to help get people and pets into stable housing 
• Clare Callison, AmPA! Maddie’s® Director of National Pet Supply and Demand - Adopt a (Tiny) Shelter initiative helps bring awareness to the plight of rural shelters 
• Ann Dunne, Director, Oakland Animal Services - Housing justice and how it intersects with the work in animal welfare.  
• Close  

List of resources referenced during today’s call 

• Let Kristen know if you want to spotlight other tiny shelters Kristen.hassen@americanpetsalive.org 
• https://www.facebook.com/americanpetsalive - top post is about San Diego Texas Animal Control 
• Luis Barrera, ACO, San Diego, TX Animal Services, 804 E Juanita St, San Diego, TX 78384 , tel (361) 562-1234   https://www.facebook.com/San-Diego-Texas-Animal-Control-638892223407546/
• San Diego, TX Amazon wish list https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/SIKSKTNO6JRN?ref_=wl_share&fbclid=IwAR3A0Cf0XWpf9NgOmpAzidUm3BSwhjLm6-IuRvwmPdUGisCM7awtoPhXRAA
• Shout-out Animal Rescue Aid for donating kuranda beds! https://www.facebook.com/AnimalRescueAid 

Dreams for Change (Safe Parking Program) https://www.dreamsforchange.org/ 
Kelly Spoon, Development Director: Kelly@dreamsforchange.org and cell 619-871-8225 

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

Oakland Animal Services https://www.oaklandanimalservices.org/ 

Open Door Veterinary Care part-time creative job: contact Dr. Sara Pizano or Aimee St.Arnaud 
drpizano@teamshelterusa.com or aimee@opendoorveterinarycare.com 
 

Events/Books/Films/Podcasts/Webcasts/ 

Animal Care Expo April 21-23, 2021 registration - early bird rate ends today https://humanepro.org/expo/registration/advance  

Best Friends conference June 23+24, 2021  https://bestfriends.org/events/best-friends-national-conference 

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

Community Cats Podcast - April 3 from 2-4:30pm - Trapper Certification Webinar with Neighborhood Cats https://www.communitycatspodcast.com/community-cat-care-training-education/ 

Humane Canada National Animal Welfare Conference - April 6 to 8, 2021: https://humanecanada.swoogo.com/nawc2021/  

 Little Fires Everywhere (film referenced by Ann Dunne) https://www.hulu.com/series/bce24897-1a74-48a3-95e8-6cdd530dde4c 

MCVMA: racism in vet med video  https://www.mcvma.org/wakeup