Opening the Door to Lifesaving: How Portals Can Save Shelter Cats
In this webinar, animal welfare strategist Dr. Sara Pizano will be exploring best practices in animal shelters and how implementing portals and the right disinfectant can decrease upper respiratory infections and ultimately increase live release rates.
Brought to you by Virox Animal Health.
Pain is not just physically unpleasant for animals. Beyond physiological symptoms such as GI dysfunction, immunosuppression and delayed wound healing, pain also affects animals emotionally and increases FAS. If not controlled, acute pain can lead to central sensitization, chronic pain states, increased morbidity and increased mortality.
If left untreated for too long, pain can become maladaptive and lead to a vicious cycle of reduced activity, weaker muscles, even less exercise, and even more pain. This course will show the importance of treating pain early and why doing so can lessen its overall impact on patients.
This course, approved for 1 RACE CE hour, was written by Ralph Harvey, DVM, MS, DACVA, UTCVM.
This course consists of 6 lessons.
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Stand-Up Comedy with Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald
We invite you to join us for the second installation of our Fun Webinar series to break up your stressful weeks with something to look forward to! These webinars are for our human clients and intended to give you a mental break, learn something new and fun, or cater to your own emotional and mental wellbeing.
We’ve been told laughter is the best medicine, so we’ve asked comedian Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald to fill our prescriptions. Best known for his 11 seasons on the popular Animal Planet television series “Emergency Vets”, Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald practices small animal medicine at VCA Alameda East Veterinary Hospital in Denver, continues to do research, has authored over a hundred peer-reviewed scientific articles, and is on multiple boards for different Denver-area veterinary and zoo associations. In addition to his veterinary career, Dr. Fitzgerald has been performing stand-up comedy since 1986, opening for and working with performers such as Joan Rivers, Bob Hope, Kevin Nealon, Brian Regan, and Norm McDonald.
At-Home Fitness Tips with Dr. Evan Antin
Welcome to our first installment of our Fun Webinar series to break up your stressful weeks with something to look forward to! These webinars are for our human clients and intended to give you a mental break, learn something new and fun, or cater to your own emotional and mental wellbeing.
Join us for fun and fitness with Dr. Evan Antin, Instagram’s most-followed veterinarian with over 1.3 million followers. Dr. Antin will be sharing his journey in becoming a veterinarian and some of his favorite at-home workout tips for humans, and then set aside time for Q&A.
Dr. Antin went viral after being featured in People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” issue in 2014, and again in 2016 & 2017. Dubbed “the sexiest veterinarian,” he took the Internet by storm.
He will be launching his first book “World Wild Vet” in October 2020 with his publisher Henry Holt (under Macmillan). This book covers Dr. Antin’s life from young wildlife/animal super-enthusiast all the way to his veterinary and wildlife conservation work around the world.
Dr. Antin originally hails from Kansas City, Kansas, where he grew up spending the majority of his childhood in search of native wildlife including snakes, turtles, and insects. He went on to study evolutionary and ecological biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder and spent multiple semesters abroad in Australia and Tanzania to learn more about their respective ecosystems and fauna.
In addition to his love for cats and dogs, Dr. Antin’s passions lie in exotic animal medicine and interacting with exotic animals in their native habitats around the world. For more than a decade, Dr. Antin worked with wildlife in locations such as Central America, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Eastern and Southern Africa, South East Asia, and a variety of North American ecosystems.
The Business of Fear Free: How to Positively Impact Profitability & Practice Value
A Fear Free approach to veterinary care is better for our patients, but what about our practices?
This presentation from Michael Hargrove, DVM, MBA, will demonstrate how becoming a Fear Free Certified Practice has business benefits that extend well beyond improved patient care. Every stakeholder in the practice benefits from Fear Free: the patients, the clients, the staff, and the practice owner.
Dr. Hargrove will discuss improved client experience, the development of a clearer brand image for the practice, and increased loyalty from clients, as well as how the change in practice culture improves staff satisfaction, increases employee retention, decreases workplace injury, and boosts employee recruiting. As a certified business appraiser, he also discusses how adopting a Fear Free practice culture can translate to an improved practice value when it comes time to sell.
Dr. Michael Hargrove is the owner of a 7-doctor small animal practice in Duluth, Minnesota. His practice has been AAHA-certified for 41 years and in 2018 became the first Fear Free Certified Practice in Minnesota. Dr. Hargrove is a certified Fear Free Professional and is also Certified in Low Stress Handling and a member of the Fear Free Advisory Group.
Dr. Hargrove also works with Summit Veterinary Advisors as a veterinary management consultant. He has an MBA and is a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) who works primarily with veterinarians who are buying/selling veterinary practices or are looking for more information on how to improve the financial health of their practice. Dr. Hargrove is married with one son and three stepsons as well as three cats and a stepdog.
Brought to you by Ceva.
Many trainers are interested in partnering with veterinary practices, but are unsure where to begin and how to effectively cultivate these business relationships. This course will provide important considerations and strategies for trainers who wish to collaborate with Fear Free Certified veterinary professionals or to introduce the concept of Fear Free to a veterinary practice.
Simply stated, trainers and veterinary teams share many clients. Referrals from veterinary professionals can enhance a trainer’s business. Many of us have taken a stack of business cards to every veterinary practice in town and, while that may get us some referrals, it doesn’t allow us to build meaningful, professional teams for our clients that truly enhance care and welfare for pets.
This course will help take the fear, anxiety and stress out of working with veterinary professionals!
This course was written by Michelle Mullins, CDBC, KPA CTP, CPDT-KSA
This course contains five lessons:
This course is approved for one hour of CEUs from CCPDT, IAABC and KPA.
Location! Location! Location! How to Prevent & Alleviate FAS Through Stress-Mapping Your Practice
Fear Free proudly presents animal welfare and behavior expert Jennifer Barg, MS, ACAAB, CDBC, for a Fear Free Certified Practice exclusive webinar: Location! Location! Location! How to Prevent and Alleviate FAS through Stress-Mapping Your Practice.
Ask any realtor what the three most important things to think about when buying a home are and they’ll tell you location, location, location. Where a pet resides while in your care can have a significant impact on his or her fear, anxiety, and stress (FAS). Identifying “hot” and “cool” areas of your practice and knowing which pets to put where will have a positive impact on them and your team. This webinar will help you learn how to make the most of your real estate.
This one-hour course will give you some simple but incredibly useful, easy-to-teach behaviors you can use with the pets you’re grooming to help make your job easier. The concepts of targeting and stationing can be invaluable for grooming—and we promise that taking a small amount of time to teach them up front will pay you dividends in the long run!
This course was written by Terrie Hayward, M.Ed., KPA-CTP, CDBC, CPDT-KA, CSAT.
This course consists of three lessons:
Training as Enrichment: Your Questions Answered
You asked, and we will answer! Fear Free Head Trainer Mikkel Becker and Education Manager Lori Chamberland will discuss some of the most common questions we’ve received from previous Fear Free training webinars. We’ll talk about leash reactivity/pulling on leash, teaching dogs and cats to live in harmony, counter surfing, and more! We will leave time at the end for you to ask questions in real time, as well. Join us – your dog or cat will thank you!
Dermatologic conditions, such as otitis externa, allergic dermatitis, and bacterial skin infections, are among the most common reasons clients bring patients to veterinarians. Additionally, dermatologic diseases are often chronic and recurrent, so procedures may be repeated on the same patient multiple times. This course provides tools for incorporating a Fear Free approach to common dermatologic techniques used in the clinic, including ear exams and cytology, skin scrape and cytology, and biopsy.
In addition, in-home bathing and ear treatments can also be a source of stress for both pets and clients. By providing suggestions for decreasing FAS during bathing and ear treatments, we can help increase compliance for topical therapy.
This course consists of four lessons:
This course is approved for one hour of RACE CE.