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
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:
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.
Now You’re Here, Now You’re Not: Preparing Your Pet for Yet Another Change
First our pets had to get used to their humans being around more than usual as people sheltered in place. For many pets, this was a positive change, but even positive changes can be stressful. They’ll face upheaval again when pandemic precautions relax and people go back to their normal routines. In this webinar, Valarie V. Tynes, DVM, DACVB, DACAW, will help you determine which patients may be at an elevated risk of increased anxiety and stress due to changes in routine, and offer practical, straightforward tips that you can share with your clients for preparing these pets for a return to “normal.”
Brought to you by Ceva.
Cultivating Healthy Resilience
Presented by Laurie Fonken, Ph.D., LPC, this webinar will define Compassion Fatigue and Moral Distress and acknowledge the impact they have on the professional and personal wellbeing of practitioners. We will then look at some key elements necessary to develop a healthy level of resilience, self-compassion, and self-care.
Fear Free Home Spaw Days
While your favorite groomer is temporarily closed, you may need to do some basic grooming on your dog yourself. Dogs can develop problems related to brushing, mat removal, nail trims, hair in the eyes, and eye discharges in just a few weeks.
Presented by Fear Free Certified trainer and groomer Daniel Josselyn-Creighton, KPA CTP, this webinar will help you to:
Practicing Curbside Safety
Length: 23 mins
For humans, nail trims are mundane experiences. But for pets, nail care can cause stress by imposing on their personal space, restricting their freedom to move, and sometimes causing discomfort or even pain.
Successful nail care encompasses more than just being able to physically maintain nails. True success is found in gaining calm participation and trust from the animals you’re working with.
This course will teach you to:
This one-hour course is open to all professionals who are signed up for a Fear Free certification program and is approved for 1 RACE CE hour and one hour of CEUs from CCPDT, IAABC and KPA
This course consists of four lessons:
Pharmacologic Options for Veterinary Visit Anxiety: An Evidenced-Based Review
In this webinar, Julia Albright, DVM, DACVB, covers the various pharmacological treatments used for veterinary visit anxiety and reviews the evidence behind each of these options.
Dr. Albright will:
1. Discuss the need to address veterinary visit anxiety
2. Review the evidence behind the commonly used pharmacological treatment options
3. Present protocols for reducing veterinary visit anxiety
Sponsored by Zoetis Petcare.
Sight Serenity: Considerations for a Tranquil Visual Experience
In this final webinar of a three-part series, Jacqueline Neilson, DVM, DACVB, reviews how cats and dogs have different visual experiences than humans do in the same environment. She explains why ignoring those differences can often trigger fear, anxiety, and stress in our patient population. By understanding their perspective, we can provide a more tranquil visual experience for our patients during veterinary visits and thereby improve their overall emotional experience.
Sponsored by Elanco.