Cooperative Care Course for Dogs
Work together for easier, safer veterinary visits, grooming, and other care!
Cooperative Care: Training for Empowered Cooperation with Grooming, Vet Care, and Body Handling
Timing: Available Now | Duration: 1.25 hr | Format: Video | Presenter: Grisha Stewart | CCPDT: 1 CEU | IAABC: 1.25 CEUs |Tag: Veterinary Care, Grooming | Price: $29
Grisha Stewart MA, CPDT-KA, KPACTP
Dog Trainer, Author, Singer-Songwriter
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- Certificate of Completion
- CEUs
What You Will Learn
Build a strong relationship of trust and care for your dog through empowerment-based training.
What is empowerment and why is it better than domination?
Specific training skills can prepare your dog for grooming and veterinary procedures.
Step by step training to help your dog learn to trust you.
How to understand what your dog is saying and also how to navigate consent for contact.
Description
Imagine being at the dentist's office, and suddenly she's drilling in your mouth. It's far scarier if you don't know what's going on or how to get it to stop.
There are many things we need to do to dogs for their own wellbeing, from nail trims to checking their temperature. We can use dog training techniques and build our observation skills to make these far safer and more comfortable for all involved. Collaboration is the future!
Who This Course is For
Anyone with a dog!
- People with new puppies, escue dogs, dogs that bite the veterinarian, dogs that love the veterinarian, and dogs that need grooming (they all do).
- Professional dog trainers and behaviorists
- Veterinarians
- Dog groomers.
Requirements
No experience necessary!
- On demand content.
- Access whenever you'd like.
- Short lessons to fit into your day.
Instructor
Grisha Stewart MA, CPDT-KA, KPACTP
Dog Trainer, Author, Singer-Songwriter
I'm a collaborative dog trainer, author, international presenter, singer-songwriter, and keynote speaker of European ancestry (best guess based on DNA and some genealogy is Scotland, "England & Northwestern Europe," Wales, "Germanic Europe," Ireland, and Norway). I've been helping people and dogs professionally since 2003. My passion projects are community building, songwriting, and woodturning.
I'm fascinated by animal behavior (including humans), somatic awareness, spirituality, psychology. My work is directed at wholehearted living for all beings. For over 20 years, I've been coaching people to help dogs with a history of aggression, frustration, or fear as well as puppies. My other favorite species is humans.
My Behavior Adjustment Training (BAT 2.0 book and BAT 3.0) is used worldwide to help dogs gain confidence and social skills. Well over 200,000 people have learned about BAT so far.
As an outgoing introvert, I refresh my batteries by singing, expressing grief in community, and savoring life with my husband (Tom), Labrador (Joey), cat (Garbanzo aka "Adventure Kitty" and "Baby Panther"), and Little Brown Dog (Zuki). I identify as a queer (pansexual), neurodiverse, middle age, white, raised in poverty and now of middle class, and US citizen, spiritual non-Christian leaning toward neo-Druid (but raised in Christian culture). My pronouns are she/her. I am still working on finding ways to live in reciprocity with Siuslaw people, upon whose ancestral lands I reside.
Curriculum
19 Lessons
Welcome - Start Here
Getting Started with Cooperative Care
Empowerment: How to Build Cooperation and Trust in Dogs
Animal Magnetism: Is Your Training Attracting or Repelling?
Your Dog's Top 7 Needs and Why You Should Care
10 Ways Your Dog Says "I Need Space"
10 Ways That Your Pet Says "I'm OK"
Watch This Before Petting Another Animal! :)
Vet Visit Stress Tips for Dogs
The More Please Signal Will Change Your Pet's Life
More Examples of the More Please Signal
Cooperative Vet Care: 3 Tricks With a Purpose
Cooperative Grooming: 3 More Tricks with a Purpose
Mani-Pedi: How and Why to Trim Your Dog's Nails
Get Dressed: Teach Dogs to Put on Their Own Gear
Deaf or Blind Dogs: Training and Care Tips
Last Lesson - thanks for being here & a quick video 'quiz'
Quick Quiz!
What's Next?
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Curriculum
19 Lessons
Welcome - Start Here
Getting Started with Cooperative Care
Empowerment: How to Build Cooperation and Trust in Dogs
Animal Magnetism: Is Your Training Attracting or Repelling?
Your Dog's Top 7 Needs and Why You Should Care
10 Ways Your Dog Says "I Need Space"
10 Ways That Your Pet Says "I'm OK"
Watch This Before Petting Another Animal! :)
Vet Visit Stress Tips for Dogs
The More Please Signal Will Change Your Pet's Life
More Examples of the More Please Signal
Cooperative Vet Care: 3 Tricks With a Purpose
Cooperative Grooming: 3 More Tricks with a Purpose
Mani-Pedi: How and Why to Trim Your Dog's Nails
Get Dressed: Teach Dogs to Put on Their Own Gear
Deaf or Blind Dogs: Training and Care Tips
Last Lesson - thanks for being here & a quick video 'quiz'
Quick Quiz!
What's Next?
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Kelsie
So Informative!
This module was incredibly informative and practical, providing a clear framework for building trust and ensuring both animals, professionals, and pet owners feel comfortable during care routines!
Angelique
A Great Course!
I love the core message of Cooperative Care. Our dogs have emotions and boundaries too, and it's so valuable to give them a choice in what happens to them. Great practical tips, and I've taken lots of notes! I enjoy the way the lectures are put together.
Cristina
Another great course
Easy to follow explanations and really good at showing how cooperative care is not just about vet or grooming procedures but is part of the integrated philosophy of dogs as living creatures with wishes and needs, including the need to fit into our worlds, and navigate our (often totally absurd - to them) rules, without having to suffer coercion and fear.
Katelyn
Good Info
This class was very valuable and informative. As a visual learner, I was hoping for more videos of a trainer actually doing the tasks because I struggle with written and spoken instructions. There were several times where is referenced to check back to a Vet OR Grooming video but it was just listed out bullet point instructions rather than a video on how to execute the training. In something like cooperative care, showing more examples of what the MPSs look like and what it looks like when they are no longer giving it would have been more beneficial. This a good class with lots of information!
Nikki
Excellent
Always looking to improve the risk of fear, anxiety and stress in my patients at the vets, and this course helped. Many thanks.
lynn
Cooperative Care: Training for Empowered Cooperation with Grooming, Vet Care, and Body Handling
Leslee
Very helpful
I appreciated the methodical approach you take in introducing the different steps involved. I find that I have done a lot of this myself, but it helps to reinforce it and make sure that I am doing it for the right reasons. It is also helpful, because my older dog is going deaf and her eyesight is not so great either, so the last section on working with deaf and blind dogs was very helpful. Thanks so much! This is my first full course since joining and I'm very happy with it. Looking forward to the rest of them.
Steffi
Essentially for all dog owners
It's the little things in life that can be challenging or stressful to our dogs and most of the time we don't pay too much attention for them, starting with putting on the gear for a walk. With this course you can teach your dog to be less stressed with all kinds of treatments that he normally doesn't like, as brushing, going to the vet or clipping nails. Easy to follow step by step instructions in short units can help you with just a few minutes of daily practice to make your dog feel more relaxed with taking care of him.