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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Jugular Blood Draw - practice at the vets #1
Tory's progression towards a cooperative jugular blood draw.
Jugular Blood Draw - practice at the vets #2
Tory's progression towards a cooperative jugular blood draw.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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