Thoughtful Touch to Improve the Emotional Experience
How we handle our patients and their tactile experience in our practices can impact their comfort and welfare during the veterinary visit. In this webinar, Jacqueline Neilson, DVM, DACVB, covers best practices to ensure that every physical interaction in your practice offers the best possible pet experience.
Fear Free Dermatology Diagnostics: What Can I Do Differently for My Patients?
In this webinar, Michele Rosenbaum, VMD, DACVD, shares targeted therapies for the itchy dog, with patient comfort and relief a priority. She presents a streamlined diagnostic workup for the itchy dog to find the underlying cause of the itch. Also covered are Fear Free tips and new helpful dermatology resources to help compliance and ease anxiety and stress for pets and their owners during the diagnostic workup and when designing a long-term treatment plan. She shares communication tips and resources to help pet owners deal with itch flares and ends with an introduction to Itchy Pet Awareness Month (August) with resources to get your team excited and ready.
Fear Free Dermatology: Patient Relief is a Priority
In this webinar, Michele Rosenbaum, VMD, DACVD, discusses a team approach to seeing the itchy dog, with patient comfort and relief a priority. She shares Fear Free tips and new helpful dermatology team resources for CSRs, technicians, and veterinarians to put into practice for each stage of the appointment.
Motion Sickness: Helping the Client/Pet Bond
There is nothing fun about having a client arrive at your clinic with a dog who just vomited all over himself. Many times motion-sick dogs are stuck in homes and are never taken anywhere fun because their owners don’t want to deal with the mess. Clients end up dreading putting their dog in the car, and as a result there’s a disconnect between the owner and dog. In this webinar, Amy N. Newfield, CVT, VTS (ECC), reviews why motion sickness occurs and how to help the client/pet bond get stronger.
Building a Pain Management Pyramid for Pets
Pain in pets is critically important, but it is complex and scientifically intriguing. Both acute and chronic pain in pets can be clinically challenging and easy to overlook because of the ability of dogs and cats to mask and hide their pain from us. Pain management is essential medicine, and better pain management is better medicine. This webinar focuses on building an effective, multimodal pain plan for pets.
Puppy Socialization: Running a Puppy Socialization Program in Your Practice
Normal or abnormal, all puppies can benefit from a puppy socialization program. Offering a puppy socialization program in your practice is a great way to have your clients bond with the practice, monitor puppy development, and ensure that clients get support during this critical period. In this final webinar in the puppy socialization series, Rachel Lees, RVT, KPA CTP, VTS (Behavior), reviews how to set up a program, tailor it to your practice, and support puppies who are “lemons” during their participation.
Puppy Socialization: Is This Puppy Normal or a “Lemon”?
Once you know what you are looking at and can identify puppies who are “lemons,” what do you do about them? In this webinar, Dr. Elizabeth Feltes, ACVB Resident in Private Practice, and Amanda Eick, RVT, KPA CTP, VTS (Behavior), cover options from pheromones to supplements to medications used to get these little lemons back on track and keep them in their homes. Find out how they approach these puppies during puppy consultations and what you can do in your hospital to improve the lives of everyone involved.
Sponsored by Ceva.
Crash, Boom, Bang! Addressing Noise Aversion in Dogs
It is estimated that a third of dogs suffer from some form of noise aversion. If you saw 12 dogs yesterday, four of them are likely to develop noise sensitivities in their lifetime. Not only can a fear of sounds be physiologically and emotionally damaging for dogs, but it can also strain the human-animal relationship. This session will provide you with strategies for how to approach, prevent, and treat sound sensitivities, including teaching desired coping skills. Sponsored by Zoetis.
Puppy Socialization: Is This Puppy Normal or a “Lemon”?
Ever wonder if the behaviors a client is describing are normal? What behaviors should your watch for that can tell you if a puppy is going to need more help? In this webinar, Dr. Elizabeth Feltes, ACVB Resident in Private Practice, and Amanda Eick, RVT, KPA CTP, VTS (Behavior), review normal puppy socialization and development and how to identify “lemons” who may show up in your practice. This presentation includes a review of body language in puppies using video and photos. Sponsored by Ceva.
Taking the Stress Out of Veterinary Care for Clients & Patients Through Technology
Fear, anxiety, and stress should not be barriers for any pet or pet parent when they need care from their veterinary team or other care providers like groomers, walkers, trainers, or pet sitters. Technology is bringing the world as we know it closer and making our day to day lives easier and more convenient. BabelBark has new technology tools that make caring for our beloved pets easier and better. Tanya Cooper, the Director of Veterinary Sales at BabelBark and a Fear Free Certified Professional, explains how the veterinary care team can be unified with the care providers in a pet’s life for better sharing of information between visits and how BabelBark’s tools of remote patient monitoring and enhanced communications can allow you to provide high-quality care that considers the wellbeing of the pet’s body and mind.