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Certified Practice Member Exclusive: Fear Free Certified Practices & TeleTails

Fear Free Certified Practices & TeleTails

Fear Free has partnered with TeleTails, a digital vet care platform, to provide Fear Free Certified Practices with an exclusive offer!

Please join Dr. Hilary Jones and Clay Bartlett to learn more about all TeleTails has to offer: simple and secure live video, messaging, and payment capabilities for pet owners to engage with their veterinarians digitally.

Already a TeleTail’s user, Dr. Michele Forbes, owner of Fear Free Certified Practice Compassionate Care Animal Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI, will share her best practices and discuss case examples.

Now You’re Here, Now You’re Not: Preparing Your Pet for Yet Another Change

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.

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Cultivating Healthy Resilience

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.

Pandemic Puppies: Puppy Socialization During a Disease Outbreak

Pandemic Puppies: Puppy Socialization During a Disease Outbreak

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the world has had to embrace the concept of social distancing. According to CDC regulations, all humans should remain at a safe distance of 6 feet from each other. This adds an entirely new challenge to the world of puppy socialization and training, as puppies during this period may be practicing social distancing with their owners.

Puppies should still be introduced to their “new” world in the safest ways possible (for puppy and owner). The puppy socialization period has not changed even though our world has. From 6-16 weeks, we still need to be introducing puppies to the human world while keeping ourselves safe from disease outbreak.

Presented by Rachel Lees, RVT, KPA CPT, VTS Behavior, this webinar will:

  • Educate pet owners and pet professionals on the importance of the socialization period
  • Define the terms desensitization and classical counterconditioning and how they are used during the socialization period
  • Educate pet owners and pet professionals on how to work through puppy socialization to objects, sounds, etc. during a pandemic
  • Describe safety techniques and ideas on how to have puppy socialization groups during the pandemic
  • Successfully teach a “name” orientation and recall for a skill to interrupt puppies during play groups

Certified Practice Member Exclusive: Fear Free Certified Practice Town Hall – April 16, 2020

Fear Free Certified Practice Town Hall – April 16, 2020

Please join us for our first-ever Fear Free Certified Practice Town Hall, hosted by Fear Free founder, Dr. Marty Becker. Based on your feedback, we’ve put together an intimate panel of experts to address your concerns during these unprecedented and ever changing times.

Join Dr. Becker as he chats with Gary Landsberg, DVM, DACVB, DECAWBM (CA); Jessica Benoit, RVT, CPDT-KA, KPA CTP; and Laurie Fonken, PhD, LPC, licensed psychotherapist, and director of counseling and wellness programs for the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University.

Dr. Landsberg will be discussing:
– Separating pets and owners: what you need to know
– Better living through chemicals: anti-anxiety and sedation options for preventing and alleviating fear, anxiety, and stress

Jessica Benoit will be discussing:
– Keeping Fear Free top of mind in difficult situations
– Exam room preparation
– Body language: yours and theirs

And Dr. Fonken will be discussing:
– Top challenges to personal self-care
– How to care for your emotional wellbeing in an ever-changing and unpredictable environment

You must be a Fear Free Certified Practice member and logged in to view this webinar

DIY Enrichment: Keeping Dogs from Climbing the Walls

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.

Fear Free Nail Trims: Behavioral Considerations to Trim Away the Terror

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
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Pharmacologic Options for Veterinary Visit Anxiety: An Evidenced-Based Review

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.

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