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HERBAL AND AROMATHERAPY REMEDIES FOR ANIMALS

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Purpose: Learn the safe and appropriate use of herbs and aromatherapy for pets.

Prerequisite: None

What can you expect to learn in this course:

  • The history of herbology.
  • How to source good quality herbs from reputable sources and what those herbs should look, smell and taste like.
  • How to grow common herbs in their garden.
  • What parts of the plant have healing properties
  • Contraindications and precautions when using herbal remedies
  • The most beneficial form of each herbal remedy including learning how to prepare dried herbs, powders, teas, infusions and compresses.
  • How to use herbal remedies to provide solutions for common ailments – behavioural issues such as anxiety, nervousness and fear; digestive upset including nausea, flatulence, constipation, impacted anal glands and diarrhea; parasite problems; lesions of the skin.
  • How to use herbal remedies to help elderly animals cope with the infirmities of old age such as arthritis, cataracts, dental issues, heart disease, kidney disease and incontinence.
  • The qualities of aromatherapy oils
  • Blending of aromatherapy oils
  • What are carrier oils and how to use them
  • Contraindications and precautions with the use of aromatherapy
  • Aromatherapy and Herbal Remedies are not substitutes for veterinarian care!

Course Completion Deadline: This course must be completed in its entirety within 3 months from the date of registration.

Required Textbook: None. Participants will be provided with a manual of useful herbs and recipes as well as a comprehensive list of useful books and resources.

CEU Status:

CCPDT- 4 CEUs
ABCDT-L2 – 4 CEUs

Instructor: Sheilagh O’Sullivan, M.A.

Course length: Four 60 minute classes.

Course Fee –  $75.00 USD

Student Information:

Access to this course will expire in 3 months. Therefore, you have 3 months to complete this course from the date of registration.

You must also read and agree to the E-Training for Dogs, Inc. Standard Terms and Conditions prior to taking a course: Click HERE to read these. You will be asked when you register if you have read them and will not be allowed to take the course if you do not agree to the terms.

ADVANCED CANINE MASSAGE COURSE

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Purpose: To learn specialized massage skills to deal with a wide variety of health issues. In addition, you will be given assignments and guidance of your case studies to enhance your learning.

Course Information: The advanced canine massage course develops specialized massage skills to deal with a wide variety of health issues. Students will be introduced to the following specialized massage skills – acupressure, sports massage, lymphatic drainage massage, reflexology and the use of colour therapy. The course also introduces students to effective business development and sustainability skills and provides a wide variety of information on small business resources available through local, regional and national governments and financial institutions. The course also helps students perform 40 case studies. Students will be provided with a comprehensive manual and instructional video.

Prerequisites: Canine Anatomy and Physiology AND Introductory Canine Massage Course

What you can expect to learn in this course:

  • Sports massage.
  • Lymphatic drainage massage.
  • Acupressure techniques.
  • Reflexology techniques.
  • Colour therapy.
  • The relationship between conformation, injury and rehabilitation.
  • The relationship between specific dog sports / athletic endeavours, injury and rehabilitation.
  • Business development.
  • Completion of the case study requirement of 4 massages on 10 different dogs.

Course Completion Deadline: This course must be completed in its entirety within 4 months from the date of registration.

Instructor: Sheilagh O’Sullivan

Course Length: Ten 90 minute sessions.

Cost: $350.00

You must also read and agree to the E-Training for Dogs, Inc. Standard Terms and Conditions prior to taking a course: Click HERE to read these. You will be asked when you register if you have read them and will not be allowed to take the course if you do not agree to the terms.

Windows of opportunity: A New Look at Canine Socialization

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Socializing PuppiesSocializing Puppies

Veterinarians and trainers often recommend “socialization” to owners of young puppies as part of standard education and care. Most recommendations are focused on exposing the puppies to a variety of stimuli including children, novel objects and body handling. It is important to recognize that socialization outcomes are affected by more than just these experiences. Long term socialization and adult behavior patterns can be affected by genetic influences as well as by specific experiences during multiple developmental stages including the prenatal, neonatal and early socialization periods.   Current research and recommendations will be discussed.

Speaker: Christopher Pachel, DVM, DACVB

Available as a recording.

This course will address the potential effects of, and research regarding:

  • Prenatal care on adult behavior
  • Neonatal handling on adult behavior
  • Genetics and socialization on adult behavior
  • Appropriate and inappropriate interactions during the primary socialization period
  • The impact of socialization and ongoing learning in adult dogs

Cost: $25.00

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CEU’s Available:
2 IAABC CEU’s
2 CCPDT CEU’s
2 ABCDT-L2 CEU’s
2 NADOI CEU’s
2 PPAB/PPG CEU’s
2 IACP CEU’s

Members of APDT, CCPDT, IAABC, IACP, ABCDT-L2 or NADOI receive over 25% off.All Lecture Series Webinars are only $18.00 each. See instructions below on how to find the password to take part in this professional discount.

IAABC members, Click HERE to apply your discount.
Email cheryl@e-trainingfordogs for the passcode.

NADOI, CCPDT, ABCDT-L2, PPG, IACP and APDT members, click HERE to apply for your discount.
Email cheryl@e-trainingfordogs for the passcode.

Approaching Animal Hospice: Geriatric & Special Needs Care for our Animal Companions

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IMAG0103Approaching Animal Hospice: Geriatric & Special Needs Care for our Animal Companions

Learn how to care for your animal as it ages or when it needs special care.

Offered by Spirits in Transition™, this beautiful 10 session course is for the animal lover who wants to prepare for supporting their animal companion through it’s senior years and other times of special needs. The animal hospice care certificate course teaches you to provide end-of-life care for animal friends.
The class details options we may still have in situations when we are told “nothing else can be done”. It is also a great educational resource for those offering related professional support services when aiming for a quality of care similar to what is available for human family members.

Course Information:This informative course is taught by veterinarian Ella Bittel. Ella is recognized by her peers as a leader in animal hospice and has presented on that topic and the one leading up to it, geriatric and special-needs care, at numerous veterinary conferences. Ella has specialized in and shares from her experience working with holistic modalities for over 30 years, among them veterinary acupuncture and chiropractic, cranio-sacral work, homeopathy, herbs, essential oils, TTOUCH and energy medicine techniques adapted from Donna Eden.

This SPIRITS in Transition™ online class gives information that may make it possible for your animal, whether dog, cat, horse or other, to live a happy and content life for many months or even years longer than it may otherwise. How is that possible? Fortunately support options have greatly increased to address the needs of our senior animals as well as younger ones who might end up requiring special care earlier on. For you to be familiar with those options can be life saving for your animal friends or those whom you serve professionally. We may hope that every veterinarian would explain all these options to us as need arises, however many of these options are not part of what is taught in veterinary school.
In this course holistic veterinarian Ella Bittel put together a treasure box of tools that allow you to optimize care for your beloved animal companion even at times when commonly it would be assumed an impasse has been reached. Along the way, this class systematically explores the main reasons why companion animals are euthanized, offering a fresh perspective on how to respond to health challenges with integrative care options, which encompass conventional as well as complementary medicine therapies, and also detailing the day-to-day care, ways in which the caregiver can support their animal loved one.

FREE link to published article, written by Ella Bittel, DVM – Embracing Death’s Journey with Our Animals 

Topics covered in this course:

  • Care options for common conditions in geriatric and special needs animals:
  • Loss of ability to walk, incontinence, chronic heart failure, loss of appetite and more
  • Integrative approaches to easing pain (conventional and holistic options)
  • Integrative approaches to working with emotional pain (for example restlessness, anxiety)
  • Cancer prevention
  • Holistic modalities helpful in (not just) special needs and end-of-life animal care
  • Re-evaluating common reasons for euthanasia
  • Integrating our personal experiences on death and dying
  • Animal hospice in our society

CEU’s:
IAABC- 14.75 CEU’s
CCPDT-15 CEU’s (9 CBCC CEU’s)
CAHVMA- 15 CEU’s for veterinarians and veterinary technicians in applicable states (For Credit Version ONLY!)

Instructor: Ella Bittel, DVM

Course Length: Ten sessions with a total run time over 14 hours.

9 sessions are OnDemand and the 10th session is either a live webinar or the recording of a previous webinar event. Either way, participants who are taking the class for credit and have completed all previous nine OnDemand sessions can have any remaining questions answered by the instructor.

Course Fee –

For Credit: $395.00 USD

For Audit: $195.00 USD

 

Student Information:

Audit is “for your information only.” No Certificate of completion or CEUs will be awarded on completion. Credit does result in a Certificate of completion, and CEUs if requested.

Upon purchase of the For Credit only, you will be sent a registration form from the Instructor within 2 days after you have purchased this course.
After you complete the registration form and get it back to the Instructor, she notifies me and I give you access to the course material.
You will get access to Lessons 1-5 first. Again, Your Instructor will work with you at this time and then lets my know to send you the access to Lessons 6-10.

NOTE: You will have unlimited access for 3 months. Extensions are available on request with a minimal charge.

You must also read and agree to the E-Training for Dogs, Inc. Standard Terms and Conditions prior to taking a course: Click HERE to read these. You will be asked when you register if you have read them and will not be allowed to take the course if you do not agree to the terms.

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Intro to Canine Nutrition

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Canine nutrition

Building Better Bodies through Canine Nutrition

Course Information: This high quality on-line course, Building Better Bodies- Intro to Canine Nutrition, is a canine nutrition course that is current in its content, enlightening in data presented, enjoyable, and applicable for every dog you own, treat, or work with. This canine nutrition course will introduce you to whole food nutrition; meaning utilizing real foods and the nutrients within to glean value and energy in what is eaten. It will build upon this by defining vitamins and minerals, looking at where these can be derived in nature as well as basic nutrient requirements for dogs. Formulations, dietary options, processing, and nutrigenomics will also be presented. You will have the opportunity to learn how to read labels and then try your new skills either on-line or at a store. Selecting whole food supplements is introduced and the course closes with tools to determine a dog’s nutritional status using fur analysis and a body systems questionnaire.

Instructor: Ava Frick, DVM, CAC, FAIS

Prerequisites: None. Some understanding of biology, science, and nutrition would be helpful.

What can I expect to learn in this course:

  • To give you a working knowledge of whole food nutrition that you can understand and apply.
  • To help you understand how to determine what is the right type of canine food or diet to purchase or recommend.
  • To guide you in knowing how to select a quality whole food nutritional supplement for dogs throughout life and life stages.
  • For Credit includes Instructor feedback. There will be Written Exercises and Homework that the student will turn in after each of the nine lessons. A Certificate and CEUs are available.
  • For Audit does not require any homework. There is no Instructor interaction. No Certificate. No CEUs.

CEU Status:

CCPDT- 13 CEUs (6.5 CBCC-KA CEUs)
IAABC- 14.5 CEUs
NADOI- 9 CEUs
PPAB/PPG – 12 CEUsABCDT-L2 – 13 CEUs

Disclaimer:  This course focuses on whole food factors, learning how to read labels, creating better diets, and integrating supplements.

There are a variety of great dog food and supplement companies.  This course does not promote any dog food company or any specific type of feeding a dog. However, Dr. Frick does recommend in both her practice and in this course, the Standard Process line of supplements because of their uniquely formulated tissue extracts. Whether you chose to utilize the products of Standard Process is your choice.  She strongly believes that she would not be doing you or your dogs a service if she does not take this opportunity to enlighten you about this aspect of our and their bodies.

Course Length: 9 ninety minute sessions.

 

For Credit Cost: $385.00 USD

For Audit Cost: $125.00 USD

Also available: Advanced Canine Nutrition

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Student Information:

You must also read and agree to the E-Training for Dogs, Inc. Standard Terms and Conditions prior to taking a course: Click HERE to read these. You will be asked when you register if you have read them and will not be allowed to take the course if you do not agree to the terms.

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