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What’s a PVP?

EFear, anxiety, and stress can make veterinary visits challenging for both pets and their owners. Our What’s a PVP? handout helps pet parents understand how Pre-Visit Pharmaceuticals (PVPs) can reduce fear and create a calmer, more positive experience at the vet. Share this resource with your clients to help them feel confident in supporting their pet’s emotional wellbeing.

Want to provide even more guidance? Share this expert blog with your clients for additional insights on how PVPs can help pets feel safer and more comfortable at the vet.

ASPCA’s Top 10 Toxins for Pets in 2024

Each year, the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center (APCC) analyzes nationwide data on toxic exposures in pets. In 2024, the APCC received over 365,000 calls related to toxic substances, highlighting the most common risks encountered by dogs and cats. This handout provides professionals with essential insights into these top toxins, helping you educate clients, prevent toxic exposures, and ensure prompt, effective treatment when needed.

Building Trust, Preventing Bites: Proactive dog bite prevention and handling strategies

Building Trust, Preventing Bites: Proactive dog bite prevention and handling strategies

Join us as we explore how being proactive, rather than reactive, can significantly enhance workplace safety and foster a harmonious environment for both humans and pets. Discover practical techniques and approaches to mitigate potential aggression and create a happier, safer workplace for everyone involved.

Mealtime Mayhem in Multipet Households

Mealtime Mayhem in Multipet Households

Does mealtime feel frenzied or nerve-wracking when caring for multiple pets in the same household? It’s not uncommon for pet professionals, and even pet parents themselves, to feel frazzled or even anxious during these moments, but have you also considered how the pets might be feeling in the frenzy?

Press Pause on the Parvo Panic!

Press Pause on the Parvo Panic!

Preventing a case from becoming an outbreak; Parvo is a widespread issue, despite effective vaccination protocols. Dogs and puppies who enter shelters often have little to no protection, and are vulnerable to parvo’s devastating effects. For veterinary professionals working in shelters, a parvo outbreak is a constant threat. Join Fear Free Certified® Veterinarian, Dr. Brian DiGangi, DVM, MS, DABVP (Canine and Feline Practice, Shelter Medicine Practice), Elite FFCP, as he discusses how to prevent a parvo outbreak in a shelter setting. In this webinar, we will: Discuss resources needed to manage canine parvovirus in shelters with respect to Fear Free principles Identify gaps in preventive care and biosecurity that increase parvo risk Understand the impact of treatment options on disease course and fear, anxiety, stress, and frustration

Brought to you by our friends at Elanco.

Fear Free Spaces: Designing your Fear Free Environment

Fear Free Spaces: Designing your Fear Free Environment

Do you want to create a space that better reduces fear, anxiety, and stress (FAS) in pets? Join us as Roger Layman, Elite FFCP, AIA, NCARB, discusses how Fear Free can enhance your clinic or shelter design, whether you are rearranging, remodeling, or building a brand new space. A new building or remodel provides the perfect opportunity to interweave FAS-reducing design into your plans, but your current space can also be reimagined to reduce FAS. Register now to learn how to create a safe and serene space for pets, pet parents, and your team!

Basket Muzzle Training

Muzzle training is essential training for a new dog. Creating comfort and ease with wearing a muzzle can help build confidence and make treatments easier for both you and the dog. Mikkel Becker, CBCC-KA, KPA CTP, CDBC, CPDT-KA, CTC, and Debbie Martin RVT, CPDT-KA, KPA CTP, VTS (Behavior), will show you how to safely and effectively muzzle train.

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Fear Free Practice Certification: How to Get Started & What You Need to Know

Fear Free Practice Certification:
Are you looking to take Fear Free to the next level at your practice? Interested in learning how the practice certification process works, what your practice needs to be eligible, and how it can benefit you and your patients? Curious about creating a more positive work environment and team culture? Join Dr Jennifer Merlo, Director of Veterinary Affairs, and hospital as we discuss all things Practice Certification. Come armed with questions about the process, benefits, and how to get started!

CEVA Practical Pheromone Use: The Road to a Calmer Pet Experience

CEVA Practical Pheromone Use: The Road to a Calmer Pet Experience

Did you know the smells in an environment can affect the stress and anxiety levels of pets? Join Dr. Natalie Marks as she discusses the prevalence of fear, anxiety, and stress (FAS) in pets, how these can create unwanted behaviors, and methods to alleviate this stress for a calmer experience. FAS leads to a stressful experience in the clinic, grooming, or boarding and daycare environments, as well as in a pet and pet parent’s day-to-day lives. Pheromones are a successful tool to help alleviate stress and anxiety in pets. By combining the use of pheromones with the calm clinic approach, you can help create a calmer experience for pets and pet parents.

Brought to you by our friends at Ceva.

Increase Team Efficiency: Workflow Tips & Technology Integrations

Increase Team Efficiency: Workflow Tips & Technology Integrations

Life in pet professional settings has had challenges over the last few years, including adapting to no contact orders, parking lot check in, new technology processes, and even Telehealth. During this presentation, we will explore ways to use technology to help alleviate some of this stress for both pet parents and their pets. Because animals are so in tune with human feelings, anything we can do to help the parent benefits the pet. Using Fear Free techniques along with new technology supports in increasing our overall client satisfaction and the pet experience.