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Conversation based adoptions

How do we ensure good matches with our shelter animals, without making people feel unwelcome? Conversation-based adoption!

Come and learn how to increase adoptions, decrease length of stay, and have our adopters feel even better about your organisation!

Trish McMillan is an internationally-known speaker on the topics of animal behaviour and sheltering. She holds a Master of Science degree in animal behaviour, and is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer. Trish first walked into a shelter in the mid 90’s and has been hooked on shelter behaviour ever since. She worked for the ASPCA for nearly eight years, first as director of animal behaviour at their NYC shelter, and then with the field team, helping assess and rehabilitate dogs from cruelty cases, dogfighting and hoarding situations.

Trish owns McMillan Animal Behavior in North Carolina, where she lives in a tiny house on her farm, Pibble Hill. Trish currently shares her life with many animals of five species.

Trish’s professional work includes training and behaviour modification work with dogs, cats, and horses. She speaks and consults nationally and internationally on animal sheltering issues, dog, cat, and horse behaviour, dog aggression, and defensive handling. She also runs a popular online shelter dog behaviour mentorship and other courses through the Shelter Behavior Hub, and is one of the founders of the behavioural euthanasia grief support group, “Losing Lulu.”

Feb 24, 2023 12:00 PM in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney