Unity Training and Behaviour

🌟Speaker Spotlight🌟CAAWT Membership Shelter and Zoo Conference
We are excited to welcome Morgan Katz as one of the speakers at this year's CAAWT Membership Conference! She will be presenting how she and her team at the MSPCA-Angell adoption centers in Boston, Centerville, Methuen, and Salem, Massachusetts, works with the potential adopters during and after they welcome their family member🐶This is a must-watch presentation for those of you that work and volunteer at animal shelters❤️

Join CAAWT Membership to attend for free AND invite your staff, co-workers, and volunteers from your shelter, zoo, aquarium, or veterinary clinic: https://www.caawt.com/caawt-membership

Here is her presentation title, abstract, and bio💫

⭐️Title⭐️
Supporting the Human Animal Bond Through Matchmaking and Adoption Counseling

⭐️Abstract⭐️
The process for adopting a new dog can be an overwhelming one. A quick internet search for available pets in your area may turn up hundreds of different adoption groups, ranging from individual families seeking to rehome a pet, private rescue groups, and non-profit organizations. At the MSPCA-Angell adoption centers in Boston, Centerville, Methuen, and Salem, Massachusetts, we know that people have many choices when it comes to finding their next family member. We are grateful to those who choose to support our mission and take home a pet from one of our adoption centers. In this presentation, we’ll outline how we design our adoption program to best match the behavioral needs of the animals in our care with the environment, lifestyle, and expectations of the families looking to adopt, and how we layer in behavior support for both the humans and the animal before, during, and after adoption.

⭐️Bio⭐️
Morgan Katz is the Director of Behavior Services for the Adoption Centers at the MSPCA-Angell in Boston, Centerville, Methuen, and Salem, MA. In this role, she develops and oversees programming related to intake, behavior assessments, in-care training and behavior support, matchmaking and adoption counseling for difficult to place dogs, and behavior support to members of the community both post-adoption and for surrender prevention. She and her team assist with staff and volunteer training on the aforementioned topics.

Morgan earned her Master of Science degree in Behavior Analysis at the University of North Texas where she studied under Dr. Jesús Rosales-Ruiz. Her research interests included using touch as a reinforcer to teach shelter dogs calm behavior, and changing problem behaviors related to aggression and separation anxiety. Morgan’s thesis research involved adapting a shaping procedure to teach fearful dogs in shelters to approach and interact with people. Morgan also graduated from the Karen Pryor Academy as a Certified Training Partner (KPA-CTP).

Morgan currently lives on the north shore of Massachusetts with her three dogs Jase, Tula, and Marne. She credits her passion for helping dogs and the people who love them to her first and best dog, Jerry.

Enough said! 💯

I'll be presenting at the 2nd Constructional Approach to Animal Welfare and Training membership conference! Any member can attend for free AND invite anyone from their shelter or zoo for free as well!

We are pleased to announce the CAAWT Membership Shelter and Zoo Conference - FREE FOR ALL CAAWT MEMBERS - a special 3-day virtual conference from August 25th to 27th from 6:00 pm Eastern time🎉 Here is the speaker lineup ✨

One of the programs we run is CAAWT membership. With CAAWT members, we explore, think, learn, and solve various behavioral challenges encountered with different animals, like dogs, cats, and exotic animals. CAAWT members are designing and implementing amazing work and obtaining remarkable outcomes!

To celebrate their wonderful work, we are hosting this conference! We will have several special guests from their expert field in animal shelters and zoos! You will learn a wide array of training programs to achieve meaningful behavior change across several species of animals, how we can ask questions to understand their behaviors better, help identify the training programs best for our learners, and use many different kinds of consequences to reinforce good behaviors and more!

You can join the conference by joining the CAAWT membership! Once you have joined the membership, you can invite all your coworkers/employees of any shelter, rescue, zoo, or veterinary clinic to join the conference for free🤩

Learn more about CAAWT membership:
https://www.caawt.com/caawt-membership

We will have more information about the conference soon! Stay tuned🙌🏼