CMDART has experienced an increase in demands for trainings, scheduled
time with town emergency providers, and organizational development needs.
We have made a new schedule for member meetings to bring members together.
You will need to stay tuned to the Web site for the dates, times and locations for
member gatherings.
FORMS
Download Registration Form in a Form Fillable Word Doc
Download Registrtion Form PDF format
Download Hopkinton Drug workshop series
Pet SMART Charities Holds Webinar this week
You can register for this session at http://petsmartcharities.webex.com
MAY 2010
May 12
MVMA Spring Conference
Best Western, Marlboro, MA
www.massvet.org
May 12 - 15
Animal Care Expo. Nashville, TN
www.hsus.org
May 15 - 16
Hoof Beats in Society: The Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence Symposium
Cummings School of Veterinary medicine at Tufts University Speakers and group discussion
will address how horses mirror our views on nature and the implications for animal welfare.
New LOWER RATES! The registration fee for veterinarians is $150 for both days
or $100 for one day. The registration fee for lay people/NGO is $40 for both days
or $20 for one day! The symposium is a tribute to the life and work of Dr. Lawrence
and focuses in an area of special interest to her, the horse-human relationship. Speakers
and group discussion will address how horses mirror our views on nature and the
implications for animal welfare. We will consider how to optimize the horse-human
relationship, promote responsible horse ownership and encourage effective policies
for horse rescue, adoption and humane death. Horse enthusiasts, rescue groups,
veterinarians, scholars, and other stakeholders are invited!
For more information,
web: http://www.tufts.edu/vet/ce/events/20100515.html
email: vetCEinfo@tufts.edu
phone: 508-887-4723
May 15, 2010
"Strut Your Mutt" Dog Walkathon, 10-3
North Attleboro Animal Shelter and Friends of the North Attleboro
Animal Shelter North Attleboro High School
May 15, 2010
Bark in the Park
Forest Park in Springfield, MA
Have fun and join friends, family, and fellow animal lovers while we raise
$50,000 to provide care for thousands of animals in need throughout the
Pioneer Valley.We welcome all dogs that enjoy the company of other dogs.
For mroe information, visit www.dpvhs.org
May 15 & 16, 2010
Greyhound Friends Open House/Reunion
Hours: 12-5, both days. This event is held at our adoption kennel
at 167 Saddle Hill Road, Hopkinton.
Everyone is invited. 508-435-5969, www.greyhound.org
May 18, 19, 20, 2010
Pediatric Spay/ Neuter
Presented by: Brenda Griffin
Tuesday, May 18: 10:00 a.m. Hawaii; 1:00 p.m. pacific; 2:00 p.m.
mountain; 3:00 p.m. central; 4:00 p.m. eastern
Wednesday, May 19: 6:00 a.m. Hawaii; 9:00 a.m. pacific; 10:00 a.m.
mountain; 11:00p.m. central; 12:00 p.m. eastern
Thursday, May 20: 7:00 a.m. Hawaii; 10:00 a.m. pacific; 11:00 a.m.
mountain; 12:00 p.m. central; 1:00 p.m. eastern
May 20 - 23
WATER RESCUE TRAIN-THE-TRAINER ACADEMY
This 3.5-day training program will be conducted at Keene State College in
Keene, New Hampshire. Tuition includes lodging (Thursday through Sunday)
and meals (Friday through Sunday). The purpose of this training is to provide
instructor candidates, as representatives of Fire, Rescue, EMS, and Law
Enforcement agencies, with the skills and knowledge required to safely and
effectively respond to incidents in, on and around the water, as well as to
provide them with the knowledge, skills and tools required to conduct Water
Rescue and Swiftwater Rescue Awareness, Operations, and Technician level
courses on behalf of their own organizations and agencies. Classes will be
conducted each day until 10 PM, and include classroom and practical
evolutions, as well as practice teaching in both classroom and practical
settings.
All Lifesaving Resources' training programs meet and exceed NFPA 1670
Standard for Technical Rescue.
For more information and/or registration, please access the Lifesaving
Resources' website at www.lifesaving.com
Gerald M. Dworkin Consultant, Aquatics Safety & Water Rescue E-Mail:
admin@lifesaving.com LIFESAVING RESOURCES INC.
P.O.
Box 905 (71 Main St.) Harrisville, NH 03450-0905 Off: 603/827-4139 Fax:
603/584-1182 Mobile: 603/682-4507
Note: If you have not already done so, we encourage you to JOIN OUR MAILING
LIST to receive our Newsletters pertaining to drowning and aquatic injury
prevention and emergency management, Public Safety and Rescue, and
Lifeguarding and Aquatic Recreation. Access our home page at
www.lifesaving.com to do so.
May 23 - Sunday
Save a Dog's Paws in the Park
10:00am-3:00pm
Longfellow's Wayside Inn, Sudbury, MA
Click here for more info
May 23, 2010
East Brookfield, MA
A Wine and Beer Tasting, from 4 pm - 6 pm at the E B Flatts
Restaurant on Rt. 9 in East Brookfield.
This event will include wine and beer tasting as well as some great hors d'ovres.
A silent auction will add fun to the event with lots of great items to bid on.
Tickets are $25.00 and include a free wine glass. Tickets can be purchased
at the shelter, by phone at (508) 867-5525 or on their website
www.secondchanceanimals.org
May 24 - Monday
CMDART is at the Uxbridge Parade
May 26 - Wednesday
CMDART to speak at Douglas Senior Center
12:00-12:30pm
May 26 - Wednesday
Campus Walk and Talk: A Sunset Discovery of Backyard Wildlife
With Dr. Mark Pokras, V84
Bernice Barbour Wildlife Medicine Building
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
5:00pm
FREE
We will adventure outside the classroom to discover the wondrous nature that
you may pass by every day. Dr. Mark Pokras discusses the work of the Tufts
Wildlife Clinic and will lead a campus walking tour to spot and identify animals
and plants. Bring Binoculars and your walking shoes. An RSVP is required as
space is limited for some programs. Please e-mail vetevents@tufts.edu with
RSVP and the program date(s) in the subject line or call (508) 887-4304 to make
your reservation. Light refreshments will be served.
May 26 - 27
Humane Dog Capture and Handling
Thomas J. O'Connor Animal Shelter Presented by Global Wildlife Resources, Inc.
* Strategies for animal capture * Hoarding Cases * Record Keeping * Disaster Response
* The Y Pole * Boxtraps * $etting * Physical Restraint * Capture Pens * Human Safety *
* Chemical Immobilization * Drug Delivery Systems * Immobilizing Drugs
Honoring each animal through equipment and techniques
GWR courses promote care, honor, and respect for each animal that is handled
The 2-day course fee is $550 ($575 after May 1). Places in this course are reserved once
payment is received. Visit www.wildliferesources.org
for course outline, testimonials, and additional information
JUNE 2010
SMART news...Coming in June...June 6 and June 27.
SMART Summit, (see letter attached from SMART).
SMART SUMMIT June 6 and June 27
In addition to signing up directly on line with SMART, would you CMDART folks
please let us know who is planning on attending and which date by sending in your
notice to registrar@cmdart.org also.
Most of us cannot attend the 6th as we participate in the Whisker Walk in Lancaster
each year. (Please go on line and see the wonderful line up this year). So most of us are
going to the Summit on the 27th in Marlboro. Again, please register directly and then
also send us a note that you are going and which date (registrar@cmdart.org). We are
asking our volunteers to wear one of your colored teeshirts (if you have one) to represent
pride in our regional team and show a good representation for CMDART. We need to have
as many of our volunteers attend this as possible to show support for SMART and it's new
development. The cost for the summit is $30 payable directly to SMART (see their
registration form).
June 5
CMDART is at the Southbridge Parade
June 5 & 6, 2010
Canine Behavior/Risk Assessment
Seminar by Sarah Kalnajs
Sponsored by All Dog Rescue http://www.alldogrescue.org/Info/Events.htm
Email: seminars@alldogrescue.org
CEUs: CCPDT, IAABC
June 6
The 3rd annual Whisker Walk at
Lancaster Fairgrounds www.whiskerwalk.org
A fun day for families and their dogs plus a dog walk-a-thon fundraiser to
benefit animal shelters and rescue groups throughout New England. The 2008
Whisker Walk brought in almost a hundred animal rescue groups, pet related
vendors/manufacturers and sponsors for the first of its kind "event not to be
missed" for pet lovers. The 2009 Whisker Walk is sure to be bigger and better!
Held at the Lancaster Fairground (Home of the Bolton Fair) there are 35 acres
for Pet owners and animal lovers to walk and lend a paw for the animals shelters
and pet rescues they love and support!
Down load forms here form1 form2
June 6
SMART Summit
www.smart-mass.org
ICS, Hazmat Awareness, PPE and zoonotic diseases
June 8 - Tuesday (rain date June 10, Thursday)
Southwick's Zoo
Mendon, MA
5:00 - 8:00pm
Fieldtrip to Southwicks Zoo to learn about zoo disaster plans
June 16 - Wednesday
Experts' Q&A Night: Editorial Board of Your Dog and Catnip
With Drs. John Berg, Nicholas Dodman, Lisa Freeman, Linda Ross,
Elizabeth Rozanski Agnes Varis Campus Center
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
6:00pm
FREE
Join us for this very special interactive panel discussion hosted by five Cummings
School faculty members ready to answer your most pressing pet care questions.
Your Dog and Catnip are nationally circulated monthly newsletters available through
subscription that present pet owners with valuable medical and behavioral information.
Current subscribers will be offered the first opportunity to voice questions to the
faculty panel at this event. An RSVP is required as space is limited for some
programs. Please e-mail vetevents@tufts.edu with RSVP and the program date(s)
in the subject line or call (508) 887-4304 to make your reservation. Light refreshments
will be served.
June 16-20, 2010
Center for Shelter Dogs Summer Institute
The Summer Institute is a unique, intensive, week-long training opportunity for animal care
professionals whose job involves dog intake, behaivior evaluation, training, and adoption.
For more information, visit click here.
June 19
CMDART weekend with Roger Lauze, MSPCA .
Large Animal Emergency Rescue, Iron Shoe Farm, Uxbridge.
Target Audience:
Firefighters, Police, Animal Control Officers, Disaster Animal Responders
This training is designed to give rescue personnel a basic knowledge of horse
and livestock behavior and large animal rescue techniques. There are two components of
this training as you can see by the attached outline. The first part of the classroom sessions
will give the basics of horse and livestock behavior and an insight into body language of the
different species. The second part of the classroom will show in detail the theory and
proper use of the rescue equipment listed in the outline.
The practical aspect of the training is to be able to put the basics taught in the classroom
to work in a controlled environment. We will demonstrate the proper handling techniques
and the participants will have an opportunity for hands-on with the animals. The practical
with the rescue equipment will involve the use of our training mannequin “Lucky the
horse”. Using Lucky gives us the ability to give every attendee the chance for hands on
with the rescue equipment. We are able to reenact different rescue scenarios using our
rescue equipment and the equipment found on fire department rescue vehicles.
This training will lay the basics down for large animal rescue and familiarize the
participants with the rescue equipment that is available to them and the equipment that
they may already have that can be used in these rescues. This is the first step in preparing
responders to handle large animal rescue.
Participants need to register by completing the attached registration form.
 
On November 7, 2009, the Tucker Family of Iron
Shoe Farm, Uxbridge lost one of their precious Pergeron draft
horses after he became trapped in his stall. (See abbreviated story
In The News) After extensive rescue between the Tucker family,
the local fire, animal control, and the Emergency Ambulance
Rescue of the MSPCA, the 2300 pound died . Wishing
to prevent others from experiencing this kind of loss, the
Tucker family will host a Large Animal Rescue Training at their
farm on Quaker Highway in Uxbridge June 19, 2010.
Roger Lauze, Coordinator for Equine Rescue and Training
at the MSPCA will be the featured instructor.
First responder fire personnel and animal disaster
response volunteers are encouraged to register. The training
is being co-hosted with Joyce Gareri, Animal Control Officer
of Uxbridge, Mendon, and Douglas. More
information about the workshop will be forthcoming.
Photo courtesy of the Worcester Telegram
Download form 1 Download form 2
June 26, 2010
Humane Education Advocates Reaching Teachers (HEART) training
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at the Bulger Animal Hospital, 247 Chickering Rd., North Andover
Humane education instills many positive character traits including compassion, responsibility,
and tolerance. Participants will learn how to teach a 4 lesson program to elementary school
students focusing on people's relationships to animals and the environment. There is no
charge for the training. For more information visit www.protectanimalslocally.org or
call 978-475-0056/email protectanimalslocally@yahoo.com.
JULY 2010
TBD
Outdoorswoman workshop
Lost in the Woods with your walking stick
Plymouth
www.mass.gov/dfw/education/bow/bow_calendar.htm
AUGUST 2010
August 17 - 18
Safe Capture: Chemical Immobilization of Animals
Boston, MA
This program will extensively cover immobilization techniques in species
commonly encountered by: law enforcement, animal and rabies control, humane
and animal rescue personnel, disaster preparedness including: feral dogs, feral cats,
escaped domestic livestock, urban wildlife, and exotic animals. Also includes
"in shelter" techniques for less distressful animal handling & pre-euthanasia applications,
as well as techniques for rapid, safe, and quiet incapacitation of guard dogs.
September 12, 2010
Pet Rock Festival
August 28
Millbury Field Day
CMDART Booth
TBD – Booth at Douglas Farm Days
TBD - Booth at Paw Planet
SEPTEMBER 2010
September 11
Tuft's Open House
11am to 3pm
CMDART Booth
http://www.tufts.edu/vet/about/open_house.htm
September 12
Pet Rock Festival
September25
Johnny Appleseed
CMDART Booth
September 26
MAC Annual Meeting with Keynote Speaker
For general information about MAC meetings, click here.
OCTOBER 2010
October 1 - 3
New England Regional Veterinary Conference
Holiday Inn, Portland, ME
www.nevma.org
October 20
MVMA Fall Conference
Holiday Inn, Mansfield, MA
www.massvet.org
Basic Body Language (of Dogs) $30.00
www.doggonesafe.com
Microchipping and Scanning Companion Animals
FREE
www.aahanet.org/education/microchip_scanning.aspx
NOVEMBER 2010
November 14
MAC meeting on Law Enforcement, Animal Control and Advocacy
For general information about MAC meetings, click here.
Leading experts in shelter management and shelter medicine will describe how to:
• Transition from a traditional shelter to an adoption guarantee shelter
• Keep dogs and cats in the shelter medically and behaviorally healthy and happy
• Ensure animals are adopted quickly with the use of marketing and promotions
• Keep a no-kill community running smoothly through leadership changes, an
economic downturn or an unexpected crisis
Who Should Attend This Seminar
Animal control agencies, traditional shelters, adoption guarantee agencies,
boards of directors, executive directors, shelter staff and volunteers.
For more information about this full-day seminar,
call Maddie's Fund at: 510-337-8989
or visit www.MaddiesFund.org
To download a PDF flier with a list of presenters, click here.
To register for Maddie's full-day seminar, go to www.animalsheltering.org/expo
For general information about EXPO, call 1-800-248-EXPO,
visit www.animalsheltering.org/expo , or e-mail expo@humanesociety.org
DECEMBER 2010
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