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Weathering the Storm: Disaster Preparedness for Pet Professionals and Pet Owners

Weathering the Storm: Disaster Preparedness for Pet Professionals and Pet Owners

If a disaster hit your community tomorrow, would you and your business be prepared? How about the animals that live in your home or community? It is never too late to begin planning for a disaster or business disruption. In this webinar, representatives from State Farm talk about disaster preparedness, having a business continuity plan, and what insurance does and doesn’t cover. Whether you are a pet professional or a pet parent, this webinar can help you prepare for and recover from the unexpected.

The Nose Knows: Attending to Aromas to Improve the Emotional Experience

The Nose Knows: Attending to Aromas to Improve the Emotional Experience

Dogs and cats are known for their remarkable olfactory capabilities. Olfactory experiences and associations can trigger profound emotional responses. In this webinar, Jacqueline Neilson, DVM, DACVB, explores how to manage odors during the veterinary visit to minimize patient fear, anxiety, and stress.

How to Raise a Gentle PUP: 3 Tips to Share with Every Puppy Parent

How to Raise a Gentle PUP: 3 Tips to Share with Every Puppy Parent

“PUP” isn’t just short for “puppy.” It stands for three core puppy-raising principles: Praise, Unflappable, and Prevention.

In this webinar, Jacqueline Neilson, DVM, DACVB, covers how to:

Provide puppy parents consistent and concise behavioral guidance during veterinary visits to assist them in raising a gentle, behaviorally healthy dog.
Make sure every puppy parent knows at least three core PUP raising principles: Praise, Unflappable, and Prevention.
Make PUP part of the dialogue for every puppy parent at every visit.

Thoughtful Touch to Improve the Emotional Experience

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?

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

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

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

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.

Taking the Stress Out of Veterinary Care for Clients & Patients Through Technology

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.

Consider the Senses of the Fear Free Exam

Consider the Senses of the Fear Free Exam

Dr. Julie Reck explores the details involved in creating a Fear Free experience. She also discusses pre-appointment opportunities, easy-to-implement facility alterations, and exam room cleaning tips to make sure your patients have the best experience possible. Sponsored by Virox.

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