Previous presentation: Worldwide Veterinary Service – Luke Gamble
Since we covered quite a lot of Sarah’s T Touch approach at her brilliant workshop yesterday, I’m going to give my writing fingers a rest and employ my trigger finger… shooting photos! I hope to get a few pictures up here shortly and encourage you to meet Sarah [...]
Previous presentation: Changing Behaviour Patterns – Steve Goward
Luke, who reminds me very much of Steve Irwin with his safari gear and unflappable enthusiasm, is the young pioneer behind WVS. WVS provides free veterinary resources to non-profit organisations and animal charities worldwide and has helped 161 charities in 57 countries.
2:50: Luke fills us in on some [...]
Previous presentation: Human-Animal Interaction: PhD Research Findings – Anne-Marie Wordley
Steve Goward is a training and behaviour advisor at Dogs Trust Roden. He’ll be giving an overview of the methods used at the centre and a few case studies.
2:25: Immediately, a reminder of Dogs Trusts positive reinforcement strategies. Initially, fear-eliciting stimuli are removed, and there’s a [...]
Previous presentation: Animals as Therapy in Human Health – Alexandra More
It’s almost time for everyone to shuffle back in after a yummy lunch and more than a bit of informal networking. They’re in for a treat when they return, hearing from Anne-Marie Wordley, our most far-flung delegate, who usually makes her home in Adelaide, South [...]
Previous presentation: Education – Anneleise Smillie
Alexandra More is based at The State Hospital, the only high security hospital for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Among the 170 patients, the average stay is 7 years, varying from a few weeks to 30+ years.
12:15: Among the animals at the hospital are:
20 hens40 ducks7 geese1 cat2 kune kune pigs [...]
Previous presentation: Raising the Status of Companion Animals (The Canine Charter) – Clarissa Baldwin
Anneleise, from the Animals Asia Foundation, has been responsible for launching and developing programmes that have seen over 6,000 children graduating as ‘pet cadets’, promising to love and protect animals for life. These are children who had never touched animals and were [...]
Previous presentation: Animal Welfare: The Business of Saving Lives – Mike Arms
After a coffee break and some time to take in the inspiring words heard this morning, we’ll be back with Clarissa’s short cameo presentation about the value that can be placed on our wonderful pets.
11:30: And we’re back! Every other nervous speaker is glad [...]
Previous presentation: Population Dynamics: Problem Solving by Adding a bit of Science – Ray Butcher
Mike Arms introduces us to the idea of change. He “saves lives for a living”. He believes what we have been doing for the last 100 years is now broken, and has to change. It’s not enough to love animals; “they [...]
It’s 9:10 and we’re into the first presentation of the day. Ray Butcher is going to be talking about population dynamics – strategies for population control.
9:15: When it comes to problem solving, we need to switch our focus from the individual to the population as a whole, which is sometimes odd because of our usual [...]
Good morning! After a welcome buffet dinner last night which gave many of us a chance to meet someone we hadn’t met before (and some who are ICAWC veterans got a chance to chat with well-known and liked faces), we’re all back, bright and early and ready to hear the first day of presentations.
I’m all [...]