Presentations 2008
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Workshops
Tellington Touch by Sarah Fisher
Presentation (as Day 1 - photos to follow)
Feline Infectious Diseases by Maggie Roberts and Vanessa Howie
Shelter Building in a Rescue Environment by Matthew Taylor, Diane McLelland-Taylor and Alex Darvill of Agora Management
Presentation part 1
Presentation part 2
Presentation part 3
First Aid for Cats and Dogs by Catherine Gillie
DAY 1
Population Dynamics by Ray Butcher
Presentation part 1
Presentation part 2
Presentation part 3
Animal Welfare by Mike Arms
Putting a Value on Companion Animals by Clarissa Baldwin
Education by Anneleise Smillie
Animals as Therapy in Human Health by Alexandra More
Human-Animal Interaction by Ann-Marie Wordley
Changing Behaviour Patterns by Steve Goward
Videos to follow
Worldwide Veterinary Service by Luke Gamble
Tellington Touch by Sarah Fisher
International Training Opportunites by David Newall
DAY 2
Rewarding our Companions by Clarissa Baldwin
Practical tips for Avoiding Stress in Companion Animal Handling by Caroline Bower
Vision / Mission / Strategy by Adrian Burder
Making the Best for Feral Cats by Becky Robinson
National Feral Cat Day Leaflet
Vision: the What, the Why, and the How by Andy Ashcroft
TNR : The Template by Carolyn Menteith
Pets In Europe by Chris Laurence
Keep the Customer Satisfied by Adrian Burder
Building a basic web presence by Alexandra Roumbas
The Link by Chris Laurence
Speakers Biographies
International Companion Animal Welfare Conference 2008
Clarissa Baldwin OBE
Clarissa Baldwin is the Chief Executive of Dogs Trust, a post she has held for 19 years. Prior to this she was Head of Public Relations, having joined the charity in 1974.
Before joining Dogs Trust, Clarissa worked for a public relations consultancy.
Amongst other posts, Clarissa is Chairman of the Welfare Committee for the Pet Plan Charitable Trust, a Trustee of Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, SNIP International and Chairman of both the UK & International Greyhound Forum. She is also Chairman of the Association of Dogs and Cats Home.
Clarissa is the author of the slogan "A Dog Is For Life, Not Just For Christmas".
Michael M. Arms
Michael Arms became President of Helen Woodward Animal Center in 1999 after serving ten years as district manager for the ASPCA in New York and twenty years as Director of Operations for North Shore Animal League.
Since he developed the “Home 4 the Holidays” adoption drive in San Diego in 1999 the campaign has found homes for more than 1,500,000 orphaned pets worldwide.
Mike also established the Center’s “Animal Center Educational Services” program to teach “the business of saving lives” to shelters worldwide.
Andrew Ashcroft
Andy has just completed nearly 3 decades of British government service as a front-line diplomat. After initially learning the diplomatic ropes in London in the early eighties, he subsequently served as commercial attache in the British Embassy in Muscat, Oman; as political attache in the Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel; as Head of UK Trade Development in the British High Commission in Harare, Zimbabwe; and latterly as Britain’s Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and Haiti. In between these assignments, Andy performed several roles in Whitehall, including as Private Secretary to the Minister of State during the early nineties.
Having enjoyed tremendously the interface with the private sector during his diplomatic career, Andy left the FCO at the end of 2007 in order to establish his own international consultancy and public speaking business, “Ambassador Communications”.
Caroline Bower
Caroline qualified at Edinburgh Veterinary School, Scotland in 1981. She spent six years in mixed practice before having children, and since 2001 has been a partner with the Veterinary Hospital Group in Plymouth, where she treats behaviour referrals as part of her small animal case load. In 1997 she achieved a post graduate Diploma in Companion Animal Behaviour counselling (Dip CABC), and she is a member of the Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors. She contributes to veterinary puplications, dog and cat veterinary manuals, and has lectured on several occasions at BSAVA Congress and local veterinary division events.
Adrian Burder
Currently Marketing Director, Adrian and his team look after the fundraising, education and practical campaigning work of Dogs Trust.
Ray Butcher MA VetMB MRCVS
Ray qualified from the Cambridge University Veterinary School in 1976 and is currently a partner in a large companion animal practice in Upminster, Essex. He is a Past President of both the British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA) and the Federation of European Companion Animal Veterinary Associations (FECAVA).
He has been presented with the World Small Animal Veterinary Association award for outstanding service to the profession, as well as the special service awards from the national companion animal veterinary associations of Britain, France, Spain, Portugal and Hungary. He has also been awarded the Alf Wight Memorial Award for
contributions to animal welfare and Honorary Membership status of both the British Veterinary Nursing Association and the BSAVA.
Ray has a special interest in animal welfare and is currently a Veterinary Advisor and Board Member of the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), as well as a Board member of the Alliance for Rabies Control and the Blue Dog project. His main area of work in this context is related to aspects of humane stray animal control and dog bite prevention programmes in children.
Sarah Fisher
Sarah Fisher is the UK’s only TTouch Instructor. She teaches staff workshops for many of the UK’s top animal shelters including Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, and Dogs Trust and fosters ASBO pups for Battersea Dogs and Cats Home. She works with private clients (human and animal), lectures and travels around the UK and internationally and is the author of Unlock Your Dog’s Potential and Know Your Horse Inside out published by David and Charles. Her third book 100 Ways to Train the Perfect Dog co-written by her friend and colleague Marie Miller will be published in 2008.
Sarah is a regular contributor to many animal magazines including Your Dog, Your Horse, Horse and Rider, Englands Equestrian and Dogs Today. She has appeared at many educational events including the Wag and Bone Show, and Your Horse Live and has also made numerous television appearances including Talking to Animals (ITV1 and National Geographic), The One Show (BBC), Only Fools on Horses (ITV1), Animal Rescue Live (BBC1), Celebrity Dog School (BBC1) and Blue Peter (BBC1).
Luke Gamble MRCVS
Luke is the founder and Chief Executive of the international animal charity Worldwide Veterinary Service. He is a practicing vet based in the south of England where he lives under the patient management of his wife Cordelia (also a vet), his 10month old son called Noah, his dog, Leuwen, and the head of the house; the cat, Little Charlie. Luke runs a mixed practice and an out-of-hours emergency service and a couple of other veterinary related companies that occupy his time in between the challenges and thrills of working with the charity.
WVS is a proactive charity that prides itself in being on the front line of animal welfare. In the first six months of 2008, WVS sent 20 teams to assist various charities and non-profit sanctuaries, helped 76 organisations in 46 countries around the world and sent out over a hundred thousand pounds worth of donated medicines and equipment overseas. WVS has recently launched a disaster emergency response capability providing a humanitarian wing to its work and is a leading provider of charitable veterinary resources globally.
Catherine Gillie VN, MBVNA
Catherine qualified as a Veterinary Nurse in 1978 at Lancashire College of Agriculture and worked as a nurse in practice for a total of 10 years.
Having always had a desire to do more towards Animal Welfare and in particular dogs, Catherine joined Dogs Trust in 1993 as the manager of Darlington Rehoming Centre.
Catherine was promoted to an Assistant Field Director for Dogs Trust in 2005, and now advises on the operation and administration of several Dogs Trust Centres. She is actively involved in staff training and development and has a keen interest in dog training.
Steve Goward
Steve Goward has worked for Dogs Trust for 8 years.
He started as a volunteer and whilst studying animal welfare at a local college as a mature student he worked at Dogs Trust Roden in Shropshire. On completion of his diploma he started as a full time canine carer where he built up his experience working with dogs in the kennel environment and in 2004 he took over as the training and behaviour advisor for the Roden centre.
Steve has studied canine behaviour to be able to help dogs that are struggling to cope, both in the kennel environment and once they go to new homes, as part of the after care offered by Dogs Trust. He has presented case studies and spoken at seminars including the Scottish Association of Pet Dog Trainers and the National Dog Technical Support Group on subjects including stereotypical behaviours, learning sets, dog aggression & learning theory.
Chris Laurence MBE QVRM TD BVSc MRCVS
Chris Laurence qualified as a veterinary surgeon in 1968. He joined the RSPCA in 1998 and was promoted to Chief Veterinary Officer in 1999.
Chris took up the post of Veterinary Director for Dogs Trust in 2003. Although this primarily focuses his work on dogs he retains an interest in other species and is a Trustee of the Feline Advisory Bureau and a member of the British Veterinary Association’s Veterinary Policy Group. He is Vice Chairman of the Pet Advisory Committee. He continues to be asked to speak on animal welfare issues to a variety of audiences and the media in the UK and abroad.
Chris has been a regional officer of BSAVA, a Council member of the Sussex Division of BVA and President of BVHA He is currently Secretary of the Central Veterinary Society and on the Council of the Society of Greyhound Veterinarians. Chris was made an Honorary Member of BSAVA in April 2005 in recognition of his services to the Association and presented with the Association’s J A Wight Memorial award for animal welfare work in 2008.
He was awarded the Queens Volunteer Reserves Medal in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2002 and the MBE for services to animal welfare in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2007.
Diane McLelland Taylor
Diane McLelland-Taylor spent ten years working at Battersea Dog and Cat Home in London before joining Dogs Trust in 1998. She manages Dogs Trust Rehoming Centre in Snetterton Norfolk which rehomes in the region of 700 dogs annually.
Dogs Trust Snetterton was a run down ex-boarding kennels when Diane first took over, and was completely re-built in 2001 with state of the art glass-fronted rehoming kennels. Diane has, therefore, experience of centres old and new, both in a large city and in the countryside.
In 2007 Diane spent three weeks working at a Municipal Shelter in Istanbul, Turkey. She spent her days training the street dogs in the shelter and ran a course in the evenings for Veterinary Students eager to learn about canine and human communication.
The course was such a success that it was over subscribed and she was invited back to Istanbul in 2008 to speak at Istanbul Veterinary Faculty 10th International Students Conference. Diane was also delighted to be able to spend more time with the dogs and staff at the municipal shelter, to show them how simple it is to enrich the dogs lives without the need to spend more money.
Carolyn Menteith
Carolyn is a dog trainer and behaviourist with over 20 years experience of working with animals.
She is an experienced broadcaster who appears regularly on radio programmes as a dog expert – and has also presented or co-presented TV programmes and series’. Carolyn has been writing prolifically about dogs, dog training, dog behaviour, dog care, and dog welfare in national magazines and various other press for the past eight years, and is author of two published books.
Carolyn has worked extensively in the UK and Europe on various welfare projects and has presented evidence at House of Commons and prolific welfare debates in her capacity as a professional expert. She is currently working on a template for Trap, Neuter, Return projects in Eastern Europe and around the world, for Dogs Trust and Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, based on their experiences with the SOS Dogs Oradea project in Romania.
Carolyn is passionate about reward-based dog training and has a strong desire to improve life for as many of the nation’s dogs (and owners!) as possible.
Alexandra More
Alexandra More has worked as a nurse in Forensic Mental Health for ten years and is based in The State Hospital, Carstairs, Scotland. She currently manages the Garden and Animal Therapy Centre there. This aims to provide patients with opportunities to participate in activity, interact with others and achieve objectives as a part of their overall treatment plan while in the hospital.
She has been instrumental in the expansion of this area to include farm animals, and the regular visits of dogs to the centre. Alexandra is particularly interested in the way animals can assist those experiencing mental health problems, and is exploring ways of improving the assessment of interventions.
She is also involved in assisting other areas set up animal therapy units, and published a booklet to illustrate the work that takes place at The State Hospital.
David Newall
David Newall has worked within the ‘not for profit’ sector since 1990, most recently as Deputy Director General of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home in London and also as Secretary of the Association of Dogs and Cats Homes. Prior to that, David spent five years working alongside Mother Teresa of Calcutta’s Missionaries of Charity in 126 countries, followed by a further five years working for MERLIN (Medical Emergency Relief International). David was running their evaluations and programme set ups in countries affected by civil war and natural disasters, including Myanmar, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Sri Lanka and Azerbaijan.
In 2007, having left Battersea, he relocated his wife and family to Shropshire in order to set up his own consultancy, advising small to medium size charities on construction and site redevelopment matters. He also is using his vast overseas knowledge combined with animal welfare programme management skills to advise Dogs Trust on International issues and the implementation of overseas TNR and training programmes.
Mike Radford OBE
Mike Radford is Reader in Animal Welfare Law in the University of Aberdeen.
Mike is a Trustee of Dogs Trust, and is also associated with a number of other animal welfare organisations.
Maggie Roberts
Maggie qualified as a vet at Edinburgh University in 1986 and spent most of her career in private small animal practice in Portsmouth, where she developed an interest in feline medicine and helped to neuter the feral cat population in Portsmouth Dockyard. She has also worked in Malawi and Australia and was appointed the first Cats Protection Veterinary Officer in 1997.
After 2 years Maggie returned to private practice but her interest in feline welfare brought her back to CP as Head of Veterinary Services in 2006; she has recently been made Director of Veterinary Services.
Maggie has also been a trustee of the Feline Advisory Bureau and is the co-author of the FAB feral cat manual. She has 3 cats (all rescues of course) - Trevor, Frankie and Ronnie.
Becky Robinson
Becky Robinson is president and co-founder of Alley Cat Allies, the US’s only advocacy organization dedicated to the protection and humane treatment of cats. Based in Bethesda, Md., the mission of Alley Cat Allies is to end the killing of cats in pounds and shelters, which is the leading documented cause of death for cats in the United States today.
Becky co-founded Alley Cat Allies in 1990, after she realized that there was no national organization dedicated to providing education and resources to the thousands of Americans already caring for the outdoor cats in their communities. Under her leadership, Alley Cat Allies established the first best-practice standards for Trap-Neuter-Return programs in the United States and have since helped communities across the country implement programs,
Becky has more than a decade of experience running large-scale feral cat programs, including establishing three spay and neuter clinics in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area that serve as models for feral cat veterinary care. She regularly speaks at conferences in North America and Europe.
Alex Roumbas
Alexandra Roumbas trained as a teacher before joining an educational software company covering technical support and website copy. This led to a year-long stint as a professional technology blogger, with a particular focus on new developments in social networking and user-generated content.
Alex joined Dogs Trust in April 2008 as Web Editor, responsible for maintaining and updating Dogs Trust’s social networking pages on Facebook, MySpace, bebo, Twitter and Blogger as well as editing copy for the main website. She also helps run Dogs Trust’s popular and successful community site, DoggySnaps. She is very interested in the opportunities the web offers for fundraisers with any budget.
Anneleise Smillie
Anneleise has a BA Honours in English Literature from Bristol University, UK and has worked for the Animals Asia Foundation (AAF) for eight years in a number of roles. As their Education Director based in Hong Kong, Anneleise was responsible for writing public education and promotional materials, as well as developing new programmes and campaigns. Anneleise developed and presented educational talks on AAF's "China Bear Rescue", "Dr. Dog" and "FriendsŠ or Food?" projects to over 25,000 students across Asia, and worked closely with university groups on exhibitions and community road shows in Hong Kong. Additionally, Anneleise created an educational classroom at AAF's Moon Bear Rescue Centre in Chengdu, China.
Anneleise also managed AAF's successful "Dr. Dog" animal therapy programme in Asia, including the examination of potential dogs. In 2004 Anneleise founded the "Professor Paws" animal education programme - writing and developing the primary school lessons, whilst securing corporate sponsorship and government approval for the programme. To date over 5000 primary students have graduated as Pet Cadets.
Anneleise is now working on a consultancy basis for AAF in the UK as and is on the Board of Directors in Hong Kong.
Matthew Taylor
Matthew Taylor is the Director of Property for Dogs Trust. He is a Chartered Surveyor and joined Dogs Trust 12 years ago after working in the commercial property sector for 6 years.
Matthew is responsible for locating and buying land for development of Rehoming Centres. He is also responsible for obtaining all necessary approvals and licences for the construction and operation of Rehoming Centres and has contributed to the many improvements to animal housing design that Dogs Trust has made to its Centres in recent years.
Ann-Marie Wordley
Ann-Marie Wordley lives by the ocean in Glenelg, South Australia, with her cat Chloe. Ann-Marie is completing her PhD in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, where she also teaches in the undergraduate psychology program. Ann-Marie has an Honours Degree in Psychology and a Degree in Journalism. After completing her Psychology degree she travelled to London and worked at Lambeth Social Services in the older person’s access team.
On returning back to Australia, Ann-Marie worked as a journalist for Win Television. Currently Ann-Marie is in the final year of her PhD, which she hopes to complete in early 2009. Her research interests are in the area of human-animal interaction, Animal-Assisted Therapy, animal welfare, behaviour, and intelligence and her PhD project is investigating the relationships people have with companion animals.
As part of her PhD research, Ann-Marie has conducted many interviews with pet owners and elderly people who have had to give up their pets when they moved into Nursing Homes or Residential Care Facilities. The PhD project also involved a trial of an Animal Assisted Therapy program for people with Dementia.