Designed for veterinary surgeons and nurses/technicians (including students), this course consists of 6 modules:
- Origins of cats – covering evolution and domestication to help you understand what makes a cat a cat
- Feline behaviour – understanding behavioural development, natural behaviours, how cats interact and feline stress
- The cat’s journey through the practice – a step by step walk through the clinic to make the cats journey as stress free as possible
- Cat friendly handling – learn how to handle cats with the respect they deserve right through from getting them out of the carrier to putting them back in
- Client communication – understand a cat owners point of view and help to improve owner compliance
- Cat friendly clinic – introducing the cat friendly clinic programme and how to put everything you have learnt on the course into practice
By the end of this course you will:
- Understand the origins and natural behaviours of the cat
- Help improve the health and welfare of cats
- Be able to provide the best environment for cats visiting the practice
- Appreciate the cat as a species and its unique needs
- Understand client behaviours
- Be the ideal person to be a 'Cat Advocate' in your practice
- Have 'Cattitude'!
