Often what our client sees as ‘calm’, I am seeing as extremely inhibited. So what’s the difference and how can we tell?

How to proof a chin rest for use in cooperative care

One of the most important aspects of training any animal is to teach them to cope and tolerate with lots of different husbandry...

This is the very first session of teaching Adira how to hold a sustained lie out for later use in cooperative care. It's messy, as first...

Quick and easy way to teach a chin rest which can be used to cooperative care and veterinary situations later down the track. I've broken...

Here's Poodle having his first catheter placement. Unfortunately this was a situation that needed to be done and we didn't have time to...

Meet Mercury, a Persian cat who has medical issues preventing him from grooming himself sufficiently, and who also finds the vet clinic...

A few days before the catheter placement video above, here is Poodle having his first cooperative blood draw. There is lots in here to...

Tory's progression towards a cooperative jugular blood draw.

Tory's progression towards a cooperative jugular blood draw.

Tory's first cooperative health check. She isn't aggressive about being handled, but she definitely doesn't like it. Here we use a...

As promised, here is a follow up introduction to teaching a dog to use a scratch board, using Poodle rather than Tory because he learns...

The idea behind the scratch board is to teach dogs to scratch/dig at the sand paper and wear down their own nails, rather than train them...

Adira is blind and has underdeveloped eyes. She also has entropion where her eyelids are misshaped and the hairs surrounding her eyes rub...

Stella has yucky feelings about being handled. It’s not an uncommon problem at all. She can get snarly with things like her harness being...

Meet Adira AKA BabyDog! She is our seriously adorable rescue pup who we got mid 2020. Adira is a double merle, which means the person who...