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At-Home Fitness Tips with Dr. Evan Antin

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

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.

Fear Free Trainers: Partnering With Veterinary Professionals

Course Overview

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:

Lesson 1: You & Your Services
Lesson 2: Networking with Veterinary Professionals
Lesson 3: Veterinary Service Options
Lesson 4: Reaching Out Without Fear
Lesson 5: Staying in Your Lane

This course is approved for one hour of CEUs from CCPDT, IAABC and KPA.

Training as Enrichment: Your Questions Answered

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!

Interviewing Your Interviewer & Exam Room Secrets Revealed

Interviewing Your Interviewer & Exam Room Secrets Revealed

Knowing how to evaluate your interview experience will help you make a more informed decision about the opportunities being presented to you. Interviewing is a two-way street. The interviewee should be assessing the interviewers just as much, if not more. During this webinar, Paul Diaz, founder of Hire Power Consulting, will provide you information you can use to prepare yourself for an interview and to help you evaluate the employer’s culture.

Dr. Marty Becker, founder of Fear Free and dubbed “America’s veterinarian” by Dr. Oz, will also be joining Paul to discuss how to keep pets happy and calm and clients happy, engaged, and trusting, with an end result of the pet getting the care he/she deserves, the owner feeling like a VIP, and you, the vet, getting to practice great medicine. You’ll learn exam room secrets such as what to do when you first enter the room, what NOT to do with pets as you first greet them, how to express empathy, and more.

Training Online in Real Time: A Demonstration

Training Online in Real Time: A Demonstration

You learned the logistics of online training in our last webinar, but what does it LOOK like? Fear Free Certified trainer Laura Ryder has kindly offered to show us by teaching a mock group class via Zoom. You will see real dogs and handlers with varying skill levels and, as always with live animal demos, there are bound to be some unexpected moments! Watch as Laura conducts a group class via Zoom and get inspired to try one on your own.

A Fear Free Look at Canine Noise Aversion and Feline House Soiling

A Fear Free Look at Canine Noise Aversion and Feline House Soiling

Join Amy Learn, VMD, and Valarie V. Tynes, DVM, DACVB, DACAW, as they review two behavior problems that may be seen frequently this time of year: canine noise aversions and feline house soiling.

Canine Noise Aversions

Common canine noise aversions including storm and fireworks phobias, their presenting signs, possible contributing causes, diagnosis, and suggestions for management will all be covered.

Feline House Soiling

Both urine marking and inappropriate elimination and the diagnostic criteria for differentiating the two forms of feline house soiling, as well as their different causes, management, and treatment, will be included.

Brought to you by Ceva.

Training as Enrichment: Basic Skills

Training as Enrichment: Basic Skills

Reward-based training improves the lives of dogs and their human families. You might not be able to attend group class right now, but you can “home school” your dog during this time and improve their behavior by fitting some simple training exercises into your everyday interactions with your dog. Fear Free Head Trainer Mikkel Becker will give you the basics and answer some questions, as well!

Healthy Practice, Healthy People

Healthy Practice, Healthy People

Studies show that workplaces with fully engaged employees are more productive, more profitable, can change and adapt more quickly, and have lower attrition rates. A healthy culture is good for business and enhances employee satisfaction and morale. Veterinary professionals play essential leadership roles in the intentional development of a culture that determines the success of the practice.

Presented by Laurie Fonken, Ph.D., LPC, this webinar will help you:

Define the terms “culture” and “organizational culture”
Identify parts of your culture that are by default and by design
Know the difference between implicit and explicit elements of culture
Leave with one idea to take back to your practice

Taking Your Training Services Online

Taking Your Training Services Online

To continue helping dogs and their owners during the COVID-19 crisis, dog trainers are moving toward a variety of online training services. One of the biggest hurdles they’re facing is convincing dog owners that this new way of training their dog will be effective and lasting. Join us for a webinar with Laura Ryder, CPDT-KA, KPA CTP, as she takes a close look at online training service options and strategies to engage clients and help them train their dogs successfully.

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