Practicing Curbside Safety
Length: 23 mins
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DIY Enrichment: Keeping Dogs from Climbing the Walls
Your clients may find themselves suddenly at home all day with their dogs, whose routine has been disrupted. How can you maintain human and canine sanity in the household and enrich dogs’ minds and bodies during this time? Fear Free Head Trainer Mikkel Becker and Education Manager Lori Chamberland offer several tips and tricks to keep canines calm and content.
Course Overview
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:
- View nail care from the pet’s perspective and identify several common causes of FAS
- Understand the uses, benefits and drawbacks of each common nail trim tool: clippers, nail grinders, nail files, and scratch boards
- Incorporate the Fear Free concepts of Gentle Control, Considerate Approach and touch gradient into nail care
- Describe how, and just as importantly, when, to use food distractions, desensitization and classical conditioning, or consider medications to achieve Fear Free nail trims
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:
- Lesson 1: Nails, from the Pet’s Perspective
- Lesson 2: Tools of the Trade
- Lesson 3: Applying Fear Free Core Concepts to Nail Care
- Lesson 4: Going Beyond Food Distractions
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.
Brain Games for Bed Rest
Fear Free proudly presents Force-Free Trainer Jessica Ring, CPDT-KA, CTC, PMCT, owner and operator of My Fantastic Friend in Ellicott City, MD. Following Dr. Rachel Abrams’ brief tips on managing post-surgical pain, Jessica discusses brain games and mental stimulation for canine patients who are on “bed rest.”
Taking Fear Out of the Veterinary Visit for Pets and Owners
If we want to do what is best for the pet when they are in for a preventive care visit (run diagnostics) and what is best when they are sick and injured (early presentation, diagnostics before therapy) then we need to see the patient! In this webinar, Dr. Peter Brown discusses how creating a Fear Free environment will help you communicate with your clients.
Dr. Brown also covers:
* Home tips and tricks on preparing clients for what to expect and decreasing the fear of the unknown
* Tools and process changes that will improve in-hospital client communications
* Simple and easy ways to integrate technology into the client journey, enhancing their experience
Sponsored by IDEXX.
Six Client Tips for Puppy Socialization
Veterinarians often recommend that new puppy owners actively socialize their puppy during the sensitive socialization period. Well-intentioned pet parents may take that general guidance and inadvertently create, not prevent, problems. In this webinar, Jacqueline Neilson, DVM, DACVB, demonstrates how sharing six socialization principles will allow veterinary staff to help owners make wise choices for socialization that promote the pups’ emotional and physical wellbeing.
Sponsored by Elanco.
Our Practice Became Fear Free Certified, So Can Yours!
In this webinar, Monique Feyrecilde, BA, LVT, VTS (Behavior), will tell the story of her hospital’s journey through Practice Certification from start to finish. Learn where to start, how to create an SOP and referral community, what to expect during your onsite visit, and more.
Sponsored by Virox.
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.
Non-Pharmacologic Options for Veterinary Visit Anxiety: An Evidenced-Based Review
Lisa Radosta, DVM, DACVB, covers the various non-pharmacological treatments for veterinary visit anxiety and reviews the evidence behind each of these options.
Sponsored by Zoetis Petcare.