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Cooperative Care turns chores into teamwork
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Cooperative Care teaches animals to participate in their own care
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Cooperative Care helps your vet to take care of your dog
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Cooperative Care can help with fear and anxiety
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Cooperative Care is beneficial for all dogs
What is Cooperative Care?
Cooperative Care is an area of dog training that teaches animals to be active and willing participants in their own care. Our dogs will have to experience many types of care in their lifetimes such as hair cuts, nail clipping and veterinary examinations. Some dogs can find these experiences distressing. Through cooperative care training, we can empower our dogs by giving them choice and control during these procedures so that they feel more confident and comfortable when these procedures need to happen in a grooming or veterinary context.
Would this be useful for my dog?
Cooperative Care training is for every dog. It is ideal for us to prepare puppies, who haven't yet experienced the vet or groomers, for what those experiences will be like. It is also a valuable tool for dogs that have already had those experiences and may feel negatively towards vet and grooming procedures.
Day-to-day benefits
This type of training is not limited to vet and grooming procedures; some dogs struggle with day-to-day handling such as having a bath, putting on their harness or putting on a jacket. Cooperative Care training helps dogs in every area of their life to feel more comfortable around people and novel items.
Areas of life we can help improve
- Bathing
- Brushing
- Teeth cleaning
- Cutting hair
- Cutting nails
- Handling all areas of the dog's body
- Administering ear and eye drops
- Administering injections
- Applying ointments to the body
- Putting on a harness or jacket
- Wearing a muzzle
And much more!
Ready to start? pick a training package
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CC Starter Pack
This pack is for 2 x 1 hour sessions. The first session is an initial consultation where we will discuss your dog's cooperative care needs and learn about important topics that we need to understand before we start training.
The second session wil be a training session where we will learn the foundational behaviours for your individual cooperative care needs and how to progress them in the future.
You will also be able to follow-up with me via Whatsapp where you can send me videos of your training sessions for us to discuss and to ask any questions you might have until youir package is finished.
CC Multipack
This is a package of 4 x 1 hour sessions. The first session is an initial consultation where we will discuss your dog's cooperative care needs and learn about important topics that we need to understand before we start training.
We would then have 3 follow up sessions which would each consist of 1 hour of training and advancing the cooperative care procedures.
You will also be able to follow-up with me via Whatsapp where you can send me videos of your training sessions for us to discuss and to ask any questions you might have until youir package is finished.
CC Add-On
This would be a 1 hour session that you can purchase only after completing The CC Starter Pack or CC Multipack.
In this session we can either continue with more training of behaviours or we can take a trip to a vet or groomers together to start practicing the behaviours in different contexts.
