Behaviour modification sessions, including collaborative care training for veterinary treatments
Many animals find veterinary visits and in-home health care treatments stressful. Also, for some pets, visiting the veterinary clinic is a traumatic experience, and their caregivers often delay taking their pets for check-ups due to the stress it causes. These situations can be avoided!
Animal Progress now offers Collaborative Care consultations (also known as Cooperative Care) at the Myrtleford Animal Progress clinic. These consultations aim to provide you with the skills to teach your pet how to offer consent behaviours so that a veterinarian can examine your pet and so that you can also provide future in-home care that is needed. This has been a common practice in zoos for many years.
Watch a video of Izzy offering a “chin rest” so that her eye could be medicated
Each Collaborative Care consultation is one-on-one with Bec Hogan, a qualified veterinary nurse working at Animal Progress in Myrtleford. To book your first session, use the appointment scheduling calendar below. Following your successful booking, you will be emailed details about how to get to the Myrtleford Animal Progress clinic and what you will need.
This booking calendar can also be used to book other behaviour modification appointments with Bec Hogan, such as:
- If you have been advised by Dr Sally Nixon to book a behaviour modification session with Bec for practical guidance.
- If you are interested in one-on-one positive reinforcement training that is fun and stimulating for you and your pet.
- If you don’t think your pet’s behaviour problem needs a behaviour consultation and would like a behavioural training session with Bec Hogan.
- If you are a trainer or veterinary staff using behaviour modification to help change an animal’s behaviour and/or emotional state and would like a Zoom consultation with Bec Hogan about your case.