Helping Shelter Pets find Health, Happiness and Homes with Fear Free

If you're a veterinary professional, you may have already heard of Fear FreeSM, an initiative set to revolutionize the practice of veterinary medicine. But did you know it's not just about what happens in the vet hospital, but in the shelter, shelter clinics, and foster or adoptive homes? 

In Helping Shelter Pets find Health, Happiness and Homes with Fear Free, Dr. Marty Becker, founder of Fear Free, will help shelter veterinarians, their teams, shelter staff, and veterinary professionals in the community who offer services to shelters, rescue groups, and adopted, fostered and homeless pets understand what this movement means to them, and implement Fear Free approaches. 

Students will learn:

Why fear is the worst thing a social species can experience, and how it causes permanent damage to the brain

How what Dr. Becker calls "The most important transformation in the history of companion animal medicine" involves every pet in the shelter or in the home, every day, forever.

Where Fear Free fits into the great revolutions of veterinary medicine and animal welfare

Fear Free approaches in gently controlling, housing, and working with pets

Why post-adoption may not always be "happily ever after" - and what to do about it

Presenter: Dr. Marty Becker

Fear Free, shelter medicine, housing, sheltering, Open adoptions, remove barriers to adoption, Establish a Lifesaving Foundation, Animal Behavior, Training & Enrichment, enrichment, training, play, evaluation, stress, Adoptions & Adoption Programs, webcast