Northern Tier Shelter Initiative Zoomies: Behavior Pathway Resources - Tools of the Trade
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What You'll Learn
Behavior-focused pathway planning and outcome decision-making are challenges faced by every animal shelter. Without tools to guide those processes, it can be overwhelming to address challenges on a case-by-case basis for every dog and cat admitted to your shelter. Dr. Miranda K. Workman, from the ASPCA’s Behavioral Sciences team, will introduce a group of behavior pathway resources developed to guide pathway planning and outcome decisions with your shelter’s behavioral capacity for care in mind.
Takeaways
- Understand how to define language, determine adoptability, assess welfare, assess risk and determine behavioral capacity for care.
- Gain tools for implementing the above in your shelter.
- Learn how to approach your shelter’s pathway planning and outcome decision processes with confidence.
Suited For
Animal welfare staff, veterinarians, technicians, and staff working in the Northern Tier (Alaska, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Washington, and Wisconsin), but all are welcome.
Dr. Miranda K. Workman
Ph.D., Director, Shelter Behavior Education & Outreach, ASPCA
Dr. Miranda K. Workman is the Behavioral Sciences Team Shelter Behavior Apprenticeship Liaison for the ASPCA. For over two decades, she has served animals and their humans as a certified animal behavior professional, shelter behavior professional, professor of animal behavior and anthrozoology, and a researcher. She shares her home with her husband, three dogs, three cats, a gecko, and a domestic mouse, all of whom contributed in their own way to her PhD research focused on multi-species families.
