One of the first things veterinarians learn is that the whole body is connected—even poor oral health can have lasting impacts on a dog’s longevity and quality of life. Fighting smelly breath before it starts by implementing (easy!) at-home dental routines can ensure your patients have more wags and fewer worries. Join Jan Bellows, DVM, DAVDC, as he discusses the importance of canine dental care.
This course is approved for one hour of RACE CE
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Resource guarding is a common problem in dogs with a wide variety of behavioral presentations. The condition is sometimes referred to as possessive aggression, and it poses a serious risk of injury when aggression is directed toward humans or other animals. Resource guarding can negatively affect the human-animal bond and the dog’s social relationship with other animals. In this webinar, Kenneth Martin, DVM, DACVB, and Debbie Martin, CPDT-KA, KPA CTP, LVT, VTS (Behavior), will discuss prevention, establishing a diagnosis, and treatment recommendations.
This course is approved for one hour of RACE CE and one hour of IAABC CE. In order to obtain the CE and certificate, you must enroll in and complete the course quiz with a score of 80% or better.
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There are many barriers to veterinary care, and cost is one of the most prevalent. As pet advocates and educators, you know that financial barriers cause stress for vets, pet parents, and pets themselves.
In this short course presented by Trupanion, we will discuss cost of care, the stop-treatment threshold, and how quality pet medical insurance, such as Trupanion, helps to lessen this burden, thereby alleviating fear, anxiety, and stress.
This course contains three lessons:
This course has been approved for .5 hours of RACE non-medical CE.
Presented by Trupanion
In this one-hour course, you’ll learn about the different types of stress and how stress impacts the brain. You will develop an understanding of learned helplessness, the range of behaviors commonly associated with toxic stress, and the connection between those behaviors and changes to the brain. The course will finish with a discussion of the benefits of giving an animal more control and how that changes the brain. By the end of this course, you should have a strong understanding of why Fear Free principles are important for promoting both physical and behavioral health and wellbeing.
This course contains four lessons:
This course was written by Kristina Spaulding, PhD, CAAB and is approved for one hour of RACE CE.
In this one-hour course, you’ll learn how to develop a relationship with pet guardians and other pet care providers to create a community focused solely on pets’ emotional and physical wellbeing. Learn constructive ways to network, make your job easier and more fulfilling, and improve the relationships among your clients and their pets!
This course contains 6 lessons:
This course was written by Kaelyn Winkler, FFCP (Pet Sitter) and owner of On Cloud Canine in Ohio.
This course is dedicated to helping animal care professionals learn and practice skills to promote a more positive personal welfare. Throughout this course, you will learn how to care for yourself—and the humans around you—to create an environment and a lifestyle that is Fear Free for people as well as for pets! Through thought-provoking material, tips, and engaging content, you’ll learn healthier habits by challenging old ways of thinking and learning how to better protect human emotional welfare just as we do for animals!
This course contains 6 lessons:
This course was written by Monique Feyrecilde, BA, LVT, VTS (Behavior) and is approved for 1 hour of RACE CE.
This one-hour course is for Fear Free Certified veterinarians considering relief work and relief vets considering Fear Free certification—both of which have an opportunity to positively impact the profession but also face unique challenges. Throughout this course, you will learn how to practice Fear Free as a relief vet and address different types of communication unique to this role. In addition to bringing Fear Free to general relief practice, we’ll also cover some of the situations you may encounter in emergency or shelter relief practice. You’ll also learn tips for identifying compassionate clinics who share your Fear Free philosophy.
This course contains nine short lessons:
This course was written by Julie Liu, DVM, and Cindy Trice, DVM and is approved for 1 hour of RACE CE.
This short course will cover a novel technique for minimizing stress to birds while also comparing this technique to past concepts covered in the original Fear Free Veterinary Certification Program – Avian. We will teach you an alternative, advanced approach to reinforcing desired behavior in avian patients displaying fear or aggression that are not responding to other Fear Free training techniques. We’ll also provide several examples of using a Constructional Approach to teach useful behaviors and recommendations associated with the client and team communication surrounding the use of Fierce/Fearful to Friendly (F2F).
This course includes three lessons:
This course was written by Barbara Heidenreich and Alicia McLaughlin, DVM, CertAqVet and is approved for 1 hour of RACE CE.
The chin rest is a valuable cooperative care behavior that allows for a hands-off, consensual way to keep an animal still for veterinary exams, husbandry care, grooming, and other procedures. A chin rest serves as an indication from the animal that he is ready to engage in a handling or care procedure. By giving him a choice to “opt out,” even for a few seconds, chin rest empowers the animal to have a voice and greatly reduces his FAS.
In this course, you will learn the steps for training a solid chin rest behavior to an advanced level and discover its many practical, on-the-job applications.
This course includes three lessons:
This course was written by Mikkel Becker, CTC, KPA CTP, CBCC-KA, CPDT-KA, CDBC.
This course builds upon the foundational concepts covered in the Fear Free Nail Trims: Trimming Away the Terror course, which included finessed use of distractions, desensitization and counter-conditioning methods, and finely tuned choice of nail care tools.
An understanding of these foundational nail care concepts is recommended before starting this more advanced course. Cooperative care techniques taught in this course are useful both as preventive strategies to improve ease of nail care and as an interventional approach to address already existing FAS with nail care.
Since there is no “one size fits all” approach to nail care training that will work for every animal every time, this course aims to empower you with many options to choose from, depending on the animal you are working with at the time.
There are six short lessons in this course:
This course was written by Mikkel Becker, CTC, KPA CTP, CBCC-KA, CPDT-KA, CDBC.