Understanding the unneutered female
A great webinar for all entire female dog owners and pet professionals.
Hormones and their role,
Phantom pregnancies,
Understanding seasons,
To spay or not to spay,
Recognising a Pyometra.
This webinar aired on
JUNE 28th but you can purchase the live recording
Pet Owners Guide To The Coat & Skin Webinar
Learn how to avoid painful mats which ultimately lead to skin problems, which products to use to enhance skin & coat health, how to recognise a skin problems including lumps and bumps, understand the grooming process, how to help your dog enjoy their pamper, knot free = pain free, understanding limitations with senior dogs. Why the coat changes with health. Be an amazing pet owner!
Keep Your Eye On The Balls Webinar
A great webinar for all male dog owners and pet professionals
Puberty
The role of testosterone
When or if to neuter and the affects
Pros and cons of leaving them entire
Cryptorchid dogs
Health checking your entire dog
Chemical castration
Joints, disease, behaviour
Caring For And Working With Brachycephalic Dogs And Cats
A great webinar for owners of flat faced dogs and cats. First hand advice from a vet.
Exploring common health problems,
Adapting your care,
Understanding their health needs,
Addressing common first aid situations.
This will be educational, practical and useful
Podgy Dogs and Fat Cats
A webinar aimed at pet owners and pet professionals looking at how obesity affects our pets health. With an estimated 50% of pet insurance claims being related to weight and obesity, its time to take some action!
Weight and our pets health,
how to body condition score pets,
working out calorie needs
successfully and safely lose pets weight
Performing CPR in Dogs and Cats
A 1 hour webinar to refresh your mind or teach you from scratch! This webinar will help you to perform the best CPR, how to look for vital signs of life, and when CPR maybe needed. From electrocution to toxins, signs, symptoms, and action needed.
This will be educational, practical and useful
The Balls And The Bits- Grooming entire dogs
The entire male and female.
How does that impact you as a groomer?
The season - what does it mean and when to groom, what to avoid.
Recognising prostate disease.
Pyometra, phantom pregnancy, mammary tumours, how to spot.
Do I groom a pregnant bitch?
When to groom post neuter or post c section.
How does neutering affect the coat.
Where to direct owners with neutering questions.
When to speak up as a groomer when you have an opinion on neutering (how it changes the dog)
Heads, Body, Bums and Toes
A 2 hour webinar. The complete clinical examination guide, to help you recognise a problem in your dogs and cats. Covering common conditions that affect specific areas and some first aid tips along the way.
Golden Oldies - Grooming Senior Dogs
What are the common old age changes?
How might age affect skin?
Dryer seizures and dementia.
Arthritis and how to make the groom more comfortable.
Common senior diseases - diabetes, cushings, kidney and liver disease.
Directing owners to helpful resources for end of life decision.
When to just say no/working with the owner and dog to optimise welfare.
Walking & Caring For Dogs With Joint Disease
This webinar will look at those diagnosed with a joint disorder and those predisposed to a joint disorder including:
Hip Dysplasia
Patella Luxation
Spondylosis
IVDD
Pre and post walk exercises.
Equipment and aides.
What to have in a first-aid kit to be prepared.
Amputees.
The lame dog, is it your fault?
Arthritis.
Joint disease or is it?
Cruciate disease.
Understanding joint disease.
Walks pre and post joint surgery.
Working With & Grooming Overweight Dogs
67% of pets are overweight or obese
How does that impact you as a groomer?
Are there any tips you can give owners?
How to body condition score and teach the owner to do the same.
How does weight impact the dogs health.
Some nutrition stuff! Calorie calculations, food calculations, free foods to feed, achieving weight loss safely. Can you help?
What affects weight gain?
When is weight gain a medical problem?
Use this webinar to make a difference in a world where 2/3rds of dogs are overweight/obese.
Preventative Health Care
Nail and foot care inc. hyperkeratosis, protection of paw pads, helping the arthritic, corns, and injury.
Entire dogs vs neutered dogs - When do you have them in your care, when to say no! What are the pros and cons.
Vaccinations when and why.
Titre tests and worm counts, what are they and what do they mean.
External and internal parasite - can you spot them and what can you do.
Giardia.
Heatstroke.
Contagious - how to prevent disease spread.
Breathe Easy - Grooming dogs with heart & lung disease
This webinar covers a variety of breathing problems, with a look at how to spot respiratory distress and heart disease.
How can you make the groom more comfortable? What to expect? Equipment to avoid?
Learn about BOAS and some other things that affect our brachycephalic dogs.
What is a heart murmur and what does it mean? How may some of the common medications affect the dog? And what to do in an emergency.
Healthy Bunnies
A 2 hour webinar focusing on Rabbits.
How to recognise pain and illness, common conditions, dealing with health needs and husbandry musts.
Common Drugs and Supplements
Side effects
How to administer.
Risks to YOU.
Some common herbal products.
Adison's disease.
Dogs with dementia.
What do those supplements and drugs do. This will help you understand the way the dog is.
What questions to ask.
Storage of drugs and supplements.
The epileptic pet.
Giving insulin and the diabetic pet.
You need to understand more about the pets you care for and their daily drugs. This webinar will help you.
Skin Deep
The itchy, the lumpy and the scabby
Common lumps and bumps.
EARS yes EARS as they need to be understood (you'll learn that)
To pluck or not to pluck, to squeeze or not to squeeze.
Hotspots, masses, lesions (skin changes) why do they occur? Can you give advice?
How to protect yourself as a groomer when the owner says ears and skin have flared up since the groom.
Common things, the things you can say to help, the things you need to be wary of saying.
You will learn a ton on this course, it is difficult to express how much.
The Ins and Outs
Some guidelines to the do's and don'ts.
Information to give to owners (sheets you can print out)
Teeth cleaning - can you?
Zoonotic diseases.
Should I take a diabetic animal on?
Should I take an epileptic animal on?
Should I take a dog with heart disease on?
Vaccines, worming, flea treatment, what does It mean? Should I ask?
What other questions should I ask?
What does the veterinary surgeons act mean?
How much can I do to help a pet?
Spotting Common Illness & Emergencies
What are worrying signs?
Advice you can give but cannot diagnose
Poo, what does it mean?
Minimising the risk of a predisposed dog getting sick.
CPR and choking.
What to have in your kit.
Common toxins and symptoms.
Interpreting a quick clinical check.
Eye injuries, bleeding, collapse, petechiae haemorrhaging, head injury, wounds, tongue bleeds.
When to refuse a dog into your care.
