Less Stress Vet Visits!

LESS STRESS VET VISITS
Workshop Presented By Valli Parthasarathy, MS, PhD, DVM

How to prepare your dog to have a GREAT experience at the vet's. It can be done with not so very much effort!!!

Saturday, August 29, 2009
Noon - 3 p.m.
Location: Dog Days Dog Training, Vancouver, WA
7206 NE 37th Ave., Unit A, Vancouver, WA 98665

Limited to 8 dogs and their humans. No auditors. Cost will be $35 which must be paid in full to reserve a spot.
No reactive or aggressive dogs, please, as the space is limited.

For more information: Joan Armstrong, email joana@dogdaysnw.com or call 360-608-0867

WORKSHOP TOPICS
  • Before the Exam
    • Slippery floors, slippery tables
        bring a rubber-bottomed bathmat
    • Sit on the scale
  • Vet-friendly Tricks
    • Sit
    • Down
    • Roll onto your side
    • Roll onto your back
    • Rock Solid Stands
    • Shake
    • Open your mouth
    • Go into the crate, come out of the crate
  • Beginning Handling and Restraint
    • Physical Exam
    • Picking up and Putting down
    • Upright restraint
    • Blood draws
  • Advanced Handling and Restraint
    • Slide to the side
    • X-rays and ultrasounds
  • Nail Trimming -- that's a WHOLE other workshop!
  • You want to probe me WHERE??
    • Taking the temperature
    • Looking in the ear
    • Looking in the mouth
    • Looking in the eye
  • Medicating and Treatments
    • Giving pills
    • Giving ear meds
    • Giving eye meds
    • Desensitizing to clippers
  • Handling by new and different people

How to register: Print a Dog Days class registration form from this web page:
http://www.dogdaysnw.com/forms.html
Fill it out and mail it or hand it in at Dog Days along with the $35 tuition check made out to "Behave".
You will be sent an email confirmation.