Shelter Consulting

With more than 25 years of experience in animal sheltering in three countries, including nearly 8 years with the ASPCA, Trish is available to consult on a wide variety of shelter behavior issues, from intake to enrichment, rehabilitation, assessment, adoptability criteria-setting, and post-adoption support. Trish is a popular speaker at conferences worldwide, and has a knack for explaining difficult topics in understandable terms.

Our most comprehensive shelter behavior offering is the Shelter Dog Behavior Mentorship that runs twice each year, and the new Shelter Cat Behavior Mentorship. There are 13 modules, with Zoom meetings every two weeks as well as an exclusive community for alumni to help troubleshoot issues.

If you are interested in having Trish do a live, in-person training at your facility, it will be $2,500 a day plus expenses, with a 2 day minimum required. You can pick from the topics below, or schedule a general consult to review your shelter’s behavior programs. Or you can do a combination of seminar/consult. Email Trish at the link at the bottom of this page for details.

In-person training or seminar at your facility

Custom Webinars

Webinars are available on the topics listed below and can be scheduled for $500 each (60 minutes plus Q and A). The live version will be recorded, and a personal Youtube link will be sent for your shelter to use in future staff trainings. To book a webinar, conference or in person training, please fill out the form below to get started.

Some available topics for seminars are:

  • Canine body language

  • Feline body language

  • Dog play

  • Breaking up dog fights

  • Dog handling

  • Defensive dog handling

  • Dog-dog introductions

  • Cat handling

  • Cat clicker training

  • Leash manners for shelter dogs

  • The Five Freedoms

  • Fostering dogs

  • Fostering cats

  • Marketing dogs for adoption

  • Enrichment for shelter dogs

  • Enrichment for shelter cats

  • Litter box problems in shelter cats

  • Behavior modification for shelter dogs

  • Food and resource guarding in shelter dogs

  • Managing overaroused dogs in kennels

  • Behavioral assessments

  • Behavioral euthanasia

  • Aggression in shelter dogs

  • Behavioral euthanasia

  • Working with fearful dogs

  • “Is it all how they’re raised?”

  • Socializing puppies

  • Community outreach

  • Conversation-based adoptions

  • Setting behavioral criteria for adoption/euthanasia

  • Matching adopters to pets – review of adoption policies and procedures

  • Horse clicker training

  • Caring for horses in the shelter

  • Horse enrichment

Have a topic you would like Trish to speak about that isn’t listed above? Send her an email at trishbehave@gmail.com.

Want to book a webinar or in person training for your shelter?

Fill out this form and we will get back to you shortly about more details on how to secure dates!