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Calm Vs. Inhibited
Often what our client sees as ‘calm’, I am seeing as extremely inhibited.
So what’s the difference and how can we tell?
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Proofing a chin rest for Cooperative Care
How to proof a chin rest for use in cooperative care
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Cooperative care - building tolerance
One of the most important aspects of training any animal is to teach them to cope and tolerate with lots of different husbandry...
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Adira - teaching a lie out - session 1
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...
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Adira - teaching a chin rest - session 1
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...
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Low Stress catheter placement
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...
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Example of low stress cat grooming
Meet Mercury, a Persian cat who has medical issues preventing him from grooming himself sufficiently, and who also finds the vet clinic...
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Cooperative Blood Draw from leg
A few days before the catheter placement video above, here is Poodle having his first cooperative blood draw. There is lots in here to...
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Jugular Blood Draw - practice at the vets #1
Tory's progression towards a cooperative jugular blood draw.
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Jugular Blood Draw - practice at the vets #2
Tory's progression towards a cooperative jugular blood draw.
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Example of a cooperative care health check
Tory's first cooperative health check. She isn't aggressive about being handled, but she definitely doesn't like it. Here we use a...
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Scratch board session #2
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...
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Teaching a dog to use a scratch board
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...
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A simple counterconditioning technique for cooperative care training
Adira is blind and has underdeveloped eyes. She also has entropion where her eyelids are misshaped and the hairs surrounding her eyes rub...
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Using Reverse Luring to teach a sustained chin rest
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...
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Adira - Cooperative care for eye cleaning
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...
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