Lawless Off Leash

Affordable webinars for animal shelter staff.

Only $5 to register!

With Special Guest: Tom Candy

Are you looking to better understand what dogs in your care are feeling and how those emotions affect their welfare?

Join us for a fascinating new webinar, "Welfare Starts Within: Emotions, Stress & Shelter Life," featuring Tom Candy of Simplifying Shelter Behaviour and hosted by Laurie Lawless of Shelter Behavior Integrations.

📅 Monday, July 28th at 4:00 PM EST

In this session, Tom and Laurie will explore how understanding the emotional states of shelter dogs can improve both welfare outcomes and behavior support strategies. Drawing on a multi-dimensional model of emotion assessment, Tom will help attendees go beyond surface behavior to better recognize what dogs are experiencing on the inside.

Topics include:

  • Understanding emotion in context – Learn how stress, fear, and positive emotions show up differently in shelter environments

  • A framework for clarity – Explore a multi-dimensional model for assessing canine emotion and how it applies to real shelter scenarios

  • Welfare-focused decision-making – Discover how emotional assessments can help staff support dogs more effectively — from intake to adoption

As both a certified behaviorist and passionate educator, Tom brings a global perspective and a heart for shelter work. Register now and join us to deepen your understanding of canine emotion and take your behavior lens to the next level🐾

And yes, the replay will be available to all registrants… even if you can’t make it live. 🐶

About Tom Candy:

Tom Candy is a Certified Clinical Animal Behaviorist with the Animal Behaviour and Training Council (UK), a Certified Canine Behavior Consultant, and a Certified Shelter Behavior Specialist through the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants. He also serves as faculty with the Grisha Stewart Academy and is a Certified BAT Instructor-Knowledge Assessed (CBATI-KA).

Tom currently supports shelter staff by advising on behavioral concerns, coaching training and behavior advisors, and promoting dog welfare across all levels of care. His mission is to simplify and improve shelter dog behavior practices — making them more positive, practical, and welfare-centered.

He also runs Simplifying Shelter Behaviour, a podcast and Facebook community dedicated to sharing up-to-date, force-free behavior strategies with shelter and rescue professionals worldwide.