Training

CalAnimals provides trainings throughout the year for California animal welfare professionals. Our annual Animal Care Conference draws over 500 attendees who gather to learn, network, and develop information and skills to bring back to their work. Our Animal Law Enforcement Training Academies, in partnership with Marin Humane and San Diego Humane Society, are the go-to training programs for animal control officers and humane officers throughout California. Additionally, we provide one-day trainings and webinars.
 
Below, you will also see euthanasia trainings provided by Renee Harris (Top2Cats Consulting) and Kim Lanham-Snyder (Marin Humane), instructors we have certified.

Animal Care Conference 2021

April 11-13 (Sun-Tue)

Animal Care Conference 2020, Sheltering at Home, CA

Please check back to REGISTER  for 2021!!!

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Each year, CalAnimals hosts the California Animal Care Conference. Unique to the ACC, the conference offers five tracks: Behavior and Training, Law Enforcement & Field Services, Shelter Medicine, Sheltering & Outreach, and Leadership.

 
This yearly event brings together animal control officers, humane officers, animal care attendants, behaviorists, humane educators, shelter directors, veterinarians, RVTS, customer service representatives, all law enforcement personnel, and other animal-sheltering professionals. Continuing education for veterinarians, RVTs, and humane officers are provided.

Training & Education

Shelter Behavior Series 2 with Kelley Bollen

Live Sessions! 4 Thursdays in August, 11:00-12:30 (PST)

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This 4-session workshop, presented by Kelley Bollen, MS, CABC, and designed for all levels of shelter staff, will dive deeper into understanding and improving animal behavior while helping shelters to improve outcomes.


Each ZOOM session is 90 minutes.


The topics are:

Reading Dog and Cat Body Language – August 6

How Animals Learn and Training in the Shelter  - August 13

Dogs Gone Crazy – The Negative Effects of Captivity –August 20

Life-Changing Animals – Placing the Difficult Dogs –August 27

Open to Everyone!

Tuition includes the entire series:

$40 - Staff & Volunteers of CalAnimals Member Organizations

$55 - Non-Members

*Your paid registration will allow you to view recorded sessions for a limited time at your convenience after they air live.

Animal Law Enforcement Training Academy (Basic)

TBD

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Marin Humane

The Basic Law Enforcement Training Academy includes 80 hours (ten days) of study on such topics as animal care, impound procedures, animal fighting, elements of a crime, investigation, rules of evidence, law enforcement, report writing, search and seizure, laws of arrest, the veterinarian‘s role, legal procedures, court demeanor and testifying, civil and criminal liability, humane laws, and child abuse.


The Academy is intended to provide the 20 hours of training in animal care required for appointment as a humane officer and the 40 hours of training in California humane laws related to the powers and duties of a humane officer required for appointment and continuing education and training as a humane officer under California Corporations Code section 14502.


Please note that the final decision as to whether a course satisfies the training requirements for humane officer appointment rests with the superior court charged with confirming the appointment.

Animal Law Enforcement Training Academy (Basic)

Monday, Oct. 12 through Friday, Oct. 23, 2020

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Live Zoom from San Diego Humane Society.


The Basic Law Enforcement Training Academy includes 80 hours (ten days) of study on such topics as animal care, impound procedures, animal fighting, elements of a crime, investigation, rules of evidence, law enforcement, report writing, search and seizure, laws of arrest, the veterinarian‘s role, legal procedures, court demeanor and testifying, civil and criminal liability, humane laws, and child abuse.


The Academy is intended to provide the 20 hours of training in animal care required for appointment as a humane officer and the 40 hours of training in California humane laws related to the powers and duties of a humane officer required for appointment and continuing education and training as a humane officer under California Corporations Code section 14502.


Please note that the final decision as to whether a course satisfies the training requirements for humane officer appointment rests with the superior court charged with confirming the appointment.

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Various Locations (see below)

Euthanasia Training

When necessary, shelter staff may euthanize animals if they have completed a curriculum of at least eight hours of training as specified in the Euthanasia Training Curriculum published by the California Animal Welfare Association (CalAnimals) (now Cal Animals). The training must be provided by a veterinarian, RVT, or instructor certified by (Cal Animals). Class size is limited and pre-registration is required. Email the instructors for more information on scheduling a training convenient for you. 

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Renee's courses are currently virtual with the hands-on component scheduled for an agreed-upon date, time, and location.

 

Instructors:

Kim Lanham-Snyder, Marin Humane | klanham@marinhumane.org

Renee Harris, Top2Cats Consulting | reneeharris@top2catsconsulting.com

 

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5898 Cherry Ave | Long Beach, CA 90805

510.525.2744 | info@calanimals.org

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California's animal care and control agencies, SPCAs, and humane societies are not directly affiliated with any of the national animal welfare organizations, such as Humane Society of the United States and American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.  Read more here.