Thanks to the 230 attendees who joined this morning's call!
The recording is now available to watch on-demand. Be sure to complete this form after each Friday call you watch during the month of May to be entered to win a grant:
https://www.maddiesfund.org/friday-community-conversations-may22-giveaway.htmAttached you'll find a copy of the first presentation and a copy of the chat file. Have a great weekend!
Agenda
- Host: Kristen Hassen, Director, American Pets Alive!
- Question of the Day: Do you think this summer is going to be the same, better, or harder than 2019?
National Updates
- Maddie's Fund Monthly Giveaways: https://www.maddiesfund.org/friday-community-conversations-may22-giveaway.htm
- @Jyothi Robertson, through the Journey You Own, will be hosting free, monthly meditation gatherings to create a shared, supportive space to explore grounding practices. These one-hour sessions will include a 15 minute guided meditation, along with time to learn more about grounding practices and share experiences. The first ever session will be held via zoom on Thursday, May 25th at 5pm PST. Everyone is welcome. Link to register is here: https://jyo.world/meditation-gathering/
- CARE series for AAPI Heritage month. Next topic: Transracial Human and Animal Adoption, Monday, May 23rd 7pm EST with Alice Stephens, Author; Susan Ito, Editor and Author; Mi Ok Song Bruining, Artist, Therapist and Author. Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqcO-hqj4rHdYSaY3GyD11qADnbF0oOWmi
- From Lexis, PhD Student @ UBC Animal Welfare Program: Looking for staff to help us learn more about how we input shelter data into shelter software during (dog) intake. If you are a staff who deals with intake, please take our survey: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9yvyF8YLAgpubMW
Calls for Proposals
- 2022 Access to Veterinary Care (AVC) Conference: Call for Speakers due May 23rd; conference held from October 17-19th, 2022 in Minneapolis, MN. Anyone engaged in AVC is encouraged to apply. Aspcapro.org/avcspeakers
- 2022 ASPCA-AAWA Research Forum-Call for Proposals; for new research relating to community and shelter animal welfare; forum held online November 9, 2022. https://airtable.com/shrvIfd9gCPWVkryq
- Open Funding Opportunities:
Session Info & Links
TOPIC 1: Beth Steinhorn, President of VQ Strategies, joined us to discuss the importance of volunteer integration within an organization and how a Service Enterprise can strengthen the capacity of organizations to strategically and effectively engage volunteers to address organizational and community needs.
![Service Enterprise Characteristics](https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/MADDIESFUND/UploadedImages/JwxnlQT4GuOOVqVDnKfg_Screen Shot 2022-05-20 at 11.11.08 AM-M.png)
TOPIC 2: Dr. Jessica Hekman, one of the authors of the "Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular breed stereotypes", joined us to discuss research showing that dog breeds are not directly correlated with specific behaviors.
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Community Strategist at Maddie's Fund
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-18-2022 01:51 PM
From: Human Animal Support Services
Subject: Animal Welfare Leadership Roundup - Friday, 5/20/22 - Volunteer Integration, Research on Correlation Between Dog Breeds and Behavior
Updated 5/20 at 2:25pm - Recording now available to watch on-demand. Be sure to enter to win a grant for the month of May each time you attend or watch one of the Friday calls: https://www.maddiesfund.org/friday-community-conversations-may22-giveaway.htm
Hello Everyone,
Please join us for a VERY exciting Animal Welfare Leadership Round-up call at 8AM PT this Friday, 5/20/22! This week we will focus on volunteer integration and groundbreaking research that is making quite the splash regarding dog breeds and behavior!
Session One: Beth Steinhorn, President of VQ Strategies, will join us to discuss the importance of volunteer integration within an organization and how a Service Enterprise can strengthen the capacity of organizations to strategically and effectively engage volunteers to address organizational and community needs.
Session Two: Dr. Jessica Hekman, one of the authors of the "Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular breed stereotypes", will join us to discuss research showing that dog breeds are not directly correlated with specific behaviors. Sound familiar? It should! This research has been featured in The Atlantic, The New York Times, NPR, and many more news publications since its release just a few short weeks ago. An excerpt from The Atlantic states, "The point, then, isn't to discount breed's influence over dogs, but to rethink its sway over us. People who go after particular dog breeds may do so under the pretense that their new pets will act a certain way. And then they treat them as such, emphasizing and exaggerating the very behaviors they wanted out of their dogs in the first place, while suppressing others. They teach a "clever" dog more tricks because they assume that the animal will learn them; they give an "aloof" dog more space because they figure their pet needs the time alone. Stereotypes become "self-fulfilling prophecies," Bekoff, of CU Boulder, told me. Dog behaviors are what we breed them to be, but also what we expect them to be. "How much of how breeds behave is how we behave toward breeds?" Alonso, of the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants, said. "That is the million-dollar question."
We will have a full meeting of wonderful speakers and information so DON'T MISS IT! We can't wait to see you there!