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Canine Allergic Dermatitis: Convert Misery to a Higher Quality of Life

Canine Allergic Dermatitis: Convert Misery to a Higher Quality of Life

What better way to decrease stress and anxiety than by increasing quality of life? In this webinar, Dana Liska, DVM, DACVD, discusses canine allergic dermatitis and the stress chronic disease causes for dogs, their owners, and the veterinarians caring for them. She also shares tips for decreasing caregiver burden and improve quality of life for everyone involved in the veterinarian-client-patient relationship.

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.

Puppy Socialization: Running a Puppy Socialization Program in Your Practice

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: Providing “Lemon Aid”

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.

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