Admittedly, "welcome back" probably applies more to me than to you. We've had a LOT going on at KC Pet Project lately and blogging has had to take a back seat. Sorry.
But I have a backlog of good stuff to share, so stay tuned this week!
In the meantime, I also wanted to issue an official invite to come out to the Best Friends Conference in Las Vegas October 23-26. I will be speaking about KC Pet Project, how we were formed, about what I feel has made us successful, mistakes we made, how you can make positive life-saving changes in your community and things I wish someone would have told me before we started this journey.
I'll also be part of a panel discussion on "Innovative Policies" -- which should be fun for a host of reasons.
Best Friends has dropped the "No More Homeless Pets" language from their conference -- likely as they look to promote their new slogan "save them all" -- which, while still not perfect (the word "all"is still not fully attainable), I do prefer it to the term no-kill because it features more positive terminology and focuses on SAVING animals and not just not-killing them.
This year's conference is just simply "The Best Friends National Conference". Simple enough.
I find that the assortment and expertise of the speakers is unrivals among the national conferences and it's a great event. So come on out and say hello.
More about the conference here.
And the schedule is here. I'll be speaking on Friday morning.
So learn more about the conference -- and stay tuned for more here this week.
Is there a live stream of the conference Brent? Or footage we can access later?
Posted by: Karen Batchelor | September 23, 2014 at 01:36 PM
It's great that you are a speaker again this year. One of these days I'll make it to one of these. Hope that someone there will make mention of the national event on Saturday 10/25 that is the Coast to Coast Bully Walk/National Pit Bull Awareness Day/Freeze Don't Shoot Event. Very important things going on October 25th.
Posted by: Cheryl Huerta | September 23, 2014 at 02:06 PM
Karen, there is not a live stream, but I do believe there is footage of the presentations available after the fact. If you remind me a couple of weeks into November I'll look for them...no promises if you make me remember...
Posted by: Brent | September 23, 2014 at 06:21 PM
I so want to go to that conference. Be sure to step in to hear our own Scott Giacoppo from Wash Humane. They've gone from killing 65% to saving 85%. Also thought you'd get a kick out of this :
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/douglas-anthony-cooper/merritt-clifton-pit-bulls_b_5866176.html
Posted by: Dianne in DC | September 24, 2014 at 02:53 PM
Thanks Diane! I wish I could go see Scott's presentation....unfortunately he is presenting at the same time as me :(
Posted by: Brent | September 24, 2014 at 05:05 PM