No More Homeless Pets Forum
Join us each week for an ONLINE conversation with leaders of the No
More Homeless Pets movement. Moderated by Best Friends Animal
Sanctuary, the No More Homeless Pets Forum provides on-going
discussion and information for people working to create a time in
their communities when no homeless, unwanted animals are being
destroyed in shelters, and when every healthy dog or cat can be
guaranteed a good life in a caring environment.
Spend a week with some of the leaders of the nationwide No More
Homeless Pets movement, as they share an inside view of their
thoughts and daily work and answer your questions on a different hot
topic each week.
For more information or to join the forum, go to the Best Friends
website at: http://www.bestfriends.org/nmhp/forum.html
Upcoming topics: (Note – since this posting, many other topics have been added to the archives. The Forum is ongoing and available to everyone involved with animal rescue and sheltering.)
5/5 - 5/9 What can you do to keep the shelter animals healthy? How can
you safeguard the health of the animals in your shelter? Get all the
animals neutered before adoption? Mary Martin, Clinic Manager of
Maricopa County Animal Care and Control, which handles over 60,000
animals a year and Dr. Virginia Froehlich, chief veterinarian for Best
Friends Animal Sanctuary, which provides long-term shelter to over
1,500 special needs animals, will each offer their advice.
5/12 - 5/16 -- How do you resolve differences? Cope with
misunderstandings? How can you create a harmonious workplace? Diane
Blankenburg, the director of the Best Friends Network at Best Friends
will help you to prevent problems and successfully resolve your staff
and volunteer dilemmas.
5/19 - 5/23 Cat Behavior: How can you keep kitties in their homes?
Make the cats in your shelter more adoptable? Traci Shreyer, certified
applied animal behaviorist of Animal Behavior Counseling Services,
offers her advice on managing cat behavior problems to keep cats out
of the shelter and to prepare shelter cats for adoption.
5/26 - 5/30 How can you make the dogs in your shelter more adoptable?
Jean Donaldson of the San Francisco SPCA's Academy for Dog Trainers
will offer her advice to help refine the manners of the dogs at your
shelter so they can get adopted more quickly and to make their stay
at the shelter a more pleasant one.
6/2 - 6/6 If we take care of the animals, the money will come. Or
will it? How can you develop a mailing list on a shoestring and raise
funds for your community programs? Bonney Brown of Best Friends will
answer your questions about grassroots fundraising.
6/9 - 6/13 What do grant-makers want? Joyce Briggs of PETsMART
Charities. and Jim Mason of the Two Maud's Foundation offer their
perspectives on how you can make your organization more attractive to
potential funders.
Future forum topics include: Grassroots fundraising, Grant writing,
Legal issues for shelters, Customer service in the animal shelter,
long-term animal sheltering, and managing calls for help from the
public.
PREVIOUS SPEAKERS AND TOPICS (Transcripts archived on web site)
April 28 - May 2, 2003 Repeat from November 11-15, 2002: Faith
Maloney, founder and director of animal care for Best Friends Animal
Sanctuary talks about Burnout: How to identify it and what to do
about it.
April 21 - April 25, 2003 Repeat from November 4-8, 2002: Robin Starr
and Denise Deisler of Richmond (VA) SPCA talk about bringing about
the change to no-kill in your community: Toward a No-Kill Nation.
April 14 - April 18, 2003 What do you say when they just want the
cats gone? Becky Robinson, national director of Alley Cat Allies,
talks about ways to get elected officials, animal control and your
neighbors on your side.
April 7 - April 11, 2003 How can your board of directors really get
it together? Ed Sayres, president of the San Francisco SPCA, talks
about the board's role and how to work effectively with a board of
directors.
March 31 - April 4, 2003 How can we get our community involved in
helping animals? Dennis Stearns, vice president of No More Homeless
Pets in Guilford County, North Carolina, talks about effective
leadership and how to get more people involved in helping animals in
your community.
March 24 - 28, 2003 Humane Education? Isn’t that just for kids?
Nathania Gartman, director of humane education for Best Friends
Animal Sanctuary, shares creative ideas on how you can effectively
communicate your message to the entire community.
March 17 - 21, 2003 Julie Castle, of No More Homeless Pets in Utah,
shares the marketing secrets behind the success of the campaign to
make Utah a no-kill state and offers tips on how you can succeed at
getting the word out where you live.
March 10 - 14, 2003 Dr. Brenda Griffin, assistant professor at
Auburn University, talks about working more effectively with
veterinarians in your community.
March 3 - 7, 2003 Rich Avanzino, president of Maddie’s Fund, answers
your questions on how can my community get money from Maddie’s Fund?
February 24 - 28, 2003 Dr. Dave Sweeney, veterinarian and chief of
staff at No More Homeless Pets in Utah’s Big Fix mobile van, talks
about early age spay/neuter.
February 17 - 21, 2003 Nathan Winograd, director of Tompkins Country
SPCA shares how he made his community no-kill, virtually overnight
with his innovative programs.
February 10 - 14, 2003 Faith Maloney, director of animal care at Best
Friends Animal Sanctuary, talks about relating to your staff, co-
workers, volunteers and community even when you don’t always see
things the same way.
February 3 - 7, 2003 Peter Marsh, creator of New Hampshire's publicly-
funded NMHP program, talks about How to Get Public Money for
Spay/Neuter
January 27 - 31, 2003 Gregory Castle, president of No More Homeless
Pets in Utah, shares the whys and hows of the successful Utah
coalition. We don’t need no stinking coalition! Or do we?
January 20 - 24, 2003 Merritt Clifton, editor of Animal People
newspaper. Insights on will we ever really achieve No More Homeless
Pets. How far has the NMHP campaign come and what we need to achieve
in the future
January 13 - 17, 2003 Aimee St. Arnaud, program manager of Best
Friends No More Homeless Pets campaign. The difference one person
makes: what you can do to help animals in your community
January 6 - 10, 2003 Ed Boks of Maricopa Animal Care & Control
A revolutionary vision of animal control from the director of an AC&C
that is a leader in the no-kill movement
December 9 - 13, 2002 Zoe Carson of Alley Cat Allies. Working with
and caring for feral cats: down-to-earth advice and resources
December 2 - 6, 2002 "Dr. Virg" Froehlich, senior veterinarian for
Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. Advice and support for people caring
for special needs animals
November 18 - 22, 2002 Mike Arms, president and executive director of
the Helen Woodward Animal Center. Tips for successful Holiday
Adoptions
November 11 - 15, 2002 Faith Maloney, founder and director of animal
care for Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. Burnout: How to identify it
and what to do about it
November 4 - 8, 2002 Robin Starr and Denise Deisler of Richmond (VA)
SPCA. Toward a No-Kill Nation: How to bring about the change to no-
kill in your community
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