Welcome To Shelter Behavior Hub
Leading the Way in Shelter Behavior Education
FEATURED COURSES
SHELTER DOG BEHAVIOR MENTORSHIP
Our next cohort onboards July 8, 2026!
Taught by world-renowned shelter expert, Trish McMillan, The Shelter Dog Behavior Mentorship helps shelter staff understand dog behavior, reduce stress, and improve adoption rates. It's a valuable program for creating a better environment for shelter dogs and promoting successful adoptions.
How does this work? In Part One, you’ll do a self-audit of your current behavior programming, and put together a list of goals for the next year. Once you have that list together, you’ll be enrolled in Part Two, for a whole year.
There are 20 modules, with zoom meetings every two weeks and a lively online discussion list where you can submit homework, ask questions, and get advice in between zoom mentoring sessions.
Goals:
Shorten length of stay
Reduce stress and improve behavior
Understand the WHY behind behavior
Learn and implement science-based best practices
If you just want access to the materials and webinars without the personal coaching, certificate, or CEU’s, you can enroll in the on-demand version of this course, just $150 for the first month and $50 for each month afterward. Unenroll any time!
dog introductions
On-demand course.
Play is magic!
Helping dogs find the right homes means figuring out what kind of dogs they would like to live with, too. Knowing how to do safe, effective dog introductions will help reduce length of stay while keeping the community safe.
This course will help you learn how to introduce dogs safely to one another, how to monitor play, learn when to interrupt (and when not to!) as well as what to do if things go wrong and a fight breaks out.
Whether you're enriching, assessing and exercising your shelter dogs in play pairs or playgroups, introducing your shelter dogs to other dogs or if you're a trainer who would like to learn how the shelter folks use this powerful tool of social interaction with other dogs, Laurie Lawless and Trish McMillan are here to help out!
Play is magic!
Investment - $35