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At-Home Veterinary Visits: How Fear Free makes visits even better!

At-Home Veterinary Visits: How Fear Free makes visits even better!

At-home veterinary care is a growing market that provides personalized care in the comfort of the patient’s home. This unique veterinary setting can present it’s own set of challenges, unique experiences, and gratifying wins. During this webinar, Dr. Jennifer Merlo, Elite-FFCP, and Dr. Lyndsey Kingsley from BetterVet, discuss how Fear Free techniques are integrated into at-home care and why pet owners are choosing this veterinary option with increasing frequency. As a bonus, we will talk about how at-home and house call veterinary practices will soon have the opportunity to become Fear Free Certified Veterinary Practices – you don’t want to miss this part!

Fear Free Tips for Working with Reactive Dogs

Fear Free Tips for Working with Reactive Dogs

Many dogs experience reactivity or are labeled as “difficult” due to FAS-driven behaviors. It doesn’t have to be that way!

Join Fear Free’s Lead Trainer, Mikkel Becker, CBCC-KA, CDBC, KPA CTP, CPDT-KA, CTC, as we delve into the prevalence of FAS-based behaviors, identifying pet triggers and strategies for behavior management.

Finessing a Fear Free Stay: Safe Animal Handling

Finessing a Fear Free Stay: Safe Animal Handling

Join us to learn tips and tricks to reduce fear, anxiety, and stress (FAS) in sensitive pups, ways to increase control with impulsive dogs, and strategies to set up a more serene space in our upcoming webinar brought to you by our friends at Virox.

Serene Vaccines: The Fear Free Vaccine Experience

Serene Vaccines: The Fear Free Vaccine Experience

There are many lifestyle factors that influence the decision to vaccinate or not, and we must learn to be proactive in addressing potential concerns that may arise for pet parents. Brought to you by our friends at Elanco.

Fear Free Spaces: Designing your Fear Free Environment

Fear Free Spaces: Designing your Fear Free Environment

Do you want to create a space that better reduces fear, anxiety, and stress (FAS) in pets? Join us as Roger Layman, Elite FFCP, AIA, NCARB, discusses how Fear Free can enhance your clinic or shelter design, whether you are rearranging, remodeling, or building a brand new space. A new building or remodel provides the perfect opportunity to interweave FAS-reducing design into your plans, but your current space can also be reimagined to reduce FAS. Register now to learn how to create a safe and serene space for pets, pet parents, and your team!

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Stress, Health & Behavior: Why Physical Health and Behavior are Inextricably Linked

Course Overview

In many cases, focusing exclusively on physical health or on behavior limits our ability to foster overall well-being and achieve successful outcomes for animals. The goal of this course is to help you better understand these connections so that you can best serve animals and their people—whether you work in a veterinary or training environment.

In this course, we will discuss the intersections among physical health and behavior, the impacts of stress, and the connection among immune function, the microbiome, pain, and behavior. 

This course contains six lessons:

  • Lesson 1: Connections Between Physical Health and Behavior
  • Lesson 2: Stress Impacts, Cortisol, and Allostasis
  • Lesson 3: Immune Function and Behavior
  • Lesson 4: The Microbiome and Behavior
  • Lesson 5: How Pain Affects Behavior
  • Lesson 6: Collaboration Among Veterinary and Behavior Professionals

This course was written by Kristina Spaulding, PhD, CAAB and Amy Learn, VMD, DACVB, IAABC-CABC and is approved for ONE hour of RACE CE and ONE hour of IAABC CE.

Tail Wagging Treatments: Fear Free in Veterinary Rehab Settings

Tail Wagging Treatments: Fear Free in Veterinary Rehab Settings

There are a wealth of opportunities after graduation, one of those being veterinary rehabilitation. Whether you become a rehabilitation veterinarian or weave rehabilitation into your general practice treatment plans, join us as we discover how to reduce fear, anxiety, and stress in pets during their rehabilitation. This webinar will discuss the possibilities of veterinary rehabilitation post-graduation, common stressful events for pets during their rehabilitation treatments, and methods to reduce FAS within your treatment plans.

Reclaim Your Spark: Identifying & Managing Emotional Triggers

Reclaim Your Spark: Identifying & Managing Emotional Triggers

As pet professionals, we often battle compassion fatigue, burnout, and overwhelm. In this webinar, we will discuss emotional triggers, how to identify these triggers in ourselves, teammates, and clients, and how to address and manage said triggers. You no longer have to choose between your passion for your work, the welfare of animals, and your own well-being. Join Kari Knutson, MA, to learn about tools that will support you in being your best self at work, working more effectively, and loving what you do again.

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