A Course For
Dog Trainers, Behaviourists & Groomers who wish to teach cooperative care
What is The Pet Prep Initiative?
Do you struggle to fit in the time for co-operative care training with your clients?
Do you wish you had resources to help with this, so you can focus on other training (because let’s face it, they never call us in for just co-operative care training).
Or if you are a groomer, maybe you would simply like to do your job with as little stress as possible, and have clients who are on board with training and preparation.
The Pet Prep Initiative helps to provide dog owners, dog professionals and veterinary professionals with a structured program for learning co-operative care training. By ensuring we are all on the same page, using the same training strategies and terminology, we can make progress where progress may have failed previously.
After you have taken the course, you could become a Pet Prep Certified Trainer, utilising downloadable resources and structured Confident & Cooperative Packages.
This will hopefully be a rewarding and profitable addition to your business.
By explaining outcomes to our dogs through training, we can create predictable scenarios, leading to better welfare, calmer pets, safer vet and grooming visits and happier dog owners.
What’s Included
From £189
7 easy to follow modules
Videos and Written Text
No time limits
An opportunity to build bridges with local vet clinics, working alongside their ‘Pet Prep Practitioners’ who run Confident & Cooperative Clinics.
Enjoy access to our community page
Earn CPD hours
Once you have completed the course, you could become an assessed Pet Prep Certified Trainer, utilising downloadable PDFs to share with your clients, whilst you generate income and advertising via Confident & Cooperative packages/courses
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An introduction to:
—principles of canine behaviour
—body language
—learning theory, including shaping, learned helplessness, overshadowing, reinforcement and conditioning principles
—the biology of stress responses
—the effect of internal experiences such as pain and emotion.
—the effect of control on behaviour -
—Basic handling techniques
—The concept of start cues and consent based training
—Head to tail examination and head restraint
—Chin target to palm and a surface (you will find out why!)
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These are important positions to build trust but also to make life easier going forward. These positions can become the foundation of start cues and positioning for restraint/procedures in other areas.
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We want our canine clients to be excited and accepting of the muzzle, not fearful. This is where muzzle training is so important. It can be hard to motivate clients in this area so it is our job to show them what fun it can be for their dog.
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Building confidence and positive associations in common veterinary restraint positions such as:
—Scruff injection
—IV catheter placement
—Jugular blood draw
—Kernel Cough vaccinationsIn addition, teaching the dogs what to expect when they are in this position.
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Training plans for building positive associations with nail clippers or grinders, brushes, hair clippers, ophthalmoscopes, otoscopes, thermometers, stethoscopes, flea treatment and harness to name but a few.
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—Help your client team up with your local practice and join their Co-operative & Confident Clinics, or if they do not have a nurse to do this enquire as to if they would like you to run clinics.
—How to coach clients - the human end of the leash
—The nuances of how to touch a dog
—How to reduce stress on the day—How to reduce stress in the moment
—How to selecting the best technique/plan for each individual
This Course Is For You If
If you regularly work with clients whose dog’s display any of the following issues, this may be the course for you:
Aggression towards the vet or groomer when being touched, restrained or for certain procedures, or excessive levels of distress in these scenarios.
Aggression towards their owners when being touched, restrained or for certain procedures
Uncertainty or reluctance to be touched, and stress signalling
Requiring a muzzle
Grooming, nail clipping and flea treatment application issues
Collar and harness issues.
We Can Help You! Get Started Today.
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Sign Up Here
1) Click the link to register below
2) Join our online community (PPI for Professionals Community Forum via Facebook).
3) Get started! Access your modules in your own time, in any order.
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Receive Your Welcome Pack In The Post
This will include:
—Your workbook
—A syringe
—A stethoscope
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Work through your online course, and start to build experience
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Become a Pet Prep Practitioner
If you are already an assessed ABTC practitioner, sign up to become a Pet Prep Practitioner.
If you are not currently an ABTC registered practitioner, apply for assessment to become a Pet Prep Practitioner.
I’m ready to help develop more Confident & Cooperative Dogs
A course for Dog Trainers, Behaviourists & Groomers who wish to teach cooperative care
FAQ’s
Have a question? Contact us here.
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Time and time again, a behaviourist’s caseload is plagued with touch sensitivity, handling issues and severe anxiety or even aggression focused towards vets or groomers or the dog’s caregiver. However, this is often discussed secondary to a long list of other issues, and ultimately, the issue ends up being swept under the carpet until the next time it raises its ugly head. This pattern can repeat over the years, with vet/grooming visits simply being managed with sedation or increasingly more severe restraints.
So we say, the pattern stops here.
With easy to follow resources, these issues don’t need to keep being ignored. They can be worked on and you can have fun whilst doing it.
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Co-operative care training involves:
Explaining to an animal predictable outcomes via clear training sequences
Clear training plans create predictability and clarity to otherwise alien concepts such as nail clipping, restraint for blood draw and injections.
Encouraging the animal to become a willing, active participant in the handling procedure, reducing the need for coercion and force, and in some instances sedatives.
Commonly, start cues or consent positions are used
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£189
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1) Complete the course
2) If you are already an ABTC registered ATI/CAB/AAB/ABT fill out the registration form, and you will be added to the register for your first year.Renewal in subsequent years is £35 per year
If you are not already an ABTC accredited professional complete the assessment process which involves:
—A multiple choice test
—Submission of x3 case studies including video evidence. Each case study will be submitted with a Case Study Information Sheet, which will require some brief explanation of what the case involved and how it was progressed.Assessment costs £149.
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We suggest these run in blocks of x4 sessions. It is up to you as a business owner how much you charge.
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After you have completed your course and either registered or completed your assessment, you will be added to the register for one year.
To renew costs £35.
You also must attend a practical workshop or a refresher webinar (hosted quarterly) within each registration year as CPD.
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Yes there will be some available. These sessions are shared with veterinary and dog professionals.
These will only be available to those who are on the register or have signed up to the course.
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You can advertise Confident & Co=operative Packages where you can work with your clients on these skills.
How much you charge will depend on your area and business.
You will be able to use the downloadable resources.
You will be able to advertise via the register and display the logo on your website once you are registered (either via assessment or because you are already an ABTC accredited practitioner).
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Look at the register.
If they don’t have a PPP consider approaching them and suggesting a nurse becomes one, or if they do not have the spare staff/time but do have a spare clinic room you could suggest that you could rent their clinic room and do training packages in practice?