• Educational Meetings
  • MAC typically hosts meetings three times a year in person.  Meetings feature guest speakers and are focused on issues and topics of interest to animal welfare professionals.
  • Meetings are generally held from 9 am until between 1 pm and 3 pm. Some sessions can run all day. Meetings are held at the Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine in Grafton, MA.
    • All About Dogs
    • Hot Topics
    • Whole Cat Workshop
• AniMatch Behavior Observation Training
  • In person training held throughout the state where registrants learn about the AniMatch Behavior Observation through a video with Kelley Bollen.
• Webinar
  • Occasionally MAC will have webinar in the evenings that are on Zoom
• Lunch & Learn
  • 1-2 hour webinars done around 12pm on Zoom during the week
  • Great for watching with your colleagues!
• Special Events

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You may want to consider clicking on the next menu item and joining MAC.  We rely on member dues as a way to keep offering great programming and networking opportunities.

• Individual Members get access to Educational Meetings prior to the general public and attend the meetings at a discounted rate.
• Organizational Members each receive a number of FREE passes that are based on the size of their organization – be sure to check to see if your organization has FREE passes available!
• Click here to become a MAC Member

• Learn the benefits of sponsoring a MAC meeting here.

• Please email [email protected] if you have an idea for a speaker for a MAC meeting

• Take the Mass Pike to Exit 11 (Worcester/Millbury). At the bottom of the exit, go right onto Route 122 South toward Grafton. After 1.5 miles you will see a series of green highway signs for the Junction of 140 and 30. Take a left just before Statewide Glass. Follow road to its end and take a left. Go about 0.2 miles and take a right at the lights onto Route 30 East toward Westboro.   You will reach Tufts in about 2 miles.
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• Note:  It is Cummings School policy that animals are not to be left unattended in cars at any time.