Canine First Aid Workshop

February 25th 2012

Price: £40 for the four-hour session (members discount not available for this event)

When: 10am start, finish around 2 pm.

Where: King George V Hall, Effingham/Bookham, Surrey, KT24 5ND (easy access of M25, A3)

This first aid course is recognised and accredited by the Canine Hydrotherapy Association. It covers everything you ever need to know about different emergency situations and is hands on and interactive.

We will look at the definition of first aid, consider what a healthy animal looks like, grade various emergency situations and discuss them and then go through them one at a time to work out what to do in each situation. We practice feeling pulses, try some bandaging and squirm over eyeballs.

Full course notes will be provided together with a certificate of attendance.

The speaker: Claire qualified as a veterinary nurse in 1996 and has worked in both first and second opinion practices, working closely with specialists in Oncology and Soft Tissue Surgery. She has also worked for Royal Canin on and off for about 12 years, training vets and nurses on clinical nutrition. Claire has written articles that have been published in Vet Times, Vet Nursing Times, Your Dog, Our Cat, Vet Business Journal and Monkey Business and regularly speaks on courses in the UK and internationally. On a personal note, she has dogs and an assortment of other animals and co-founded a book group 4 years ago as she loves reading. Oh, and Claire has two little boys as well!
 

If you have a friendly, well-adjusted, medium to large sized dog who would be happy to model some bandages let me know at the time of booking. We only need one and have a back-up plan but ideally would use a delegate’s dog.

Pay by PayPal using the form below or send a cheque, payable to ‘Learning About Animals’, to:
Suzanne Rogers, 6 Fern Cottages, Dorking Road, Abinger Hammer, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 6SA.
E-mail: Suzanne@learningaboutanimals.co.uk