Low Stress Handling & Fear Free
This logo indicates that the individuals with whom you are dealing with have spent significant time learning Dr. Sophia Yin’s techniques for reducing animal tension. They know how to hold a leash, how to offer incentives and counter-condition animals to receive medical treatment willingly, as well as how to do a medical wrap correctly.
How do you interpret this?
Simple: a better experience at the veterinarian’s office and a calmer companion. It also means that they can use techniques that reduce the need for sedation beforehand, thereby reducing risk and pet health care costs. It indicates that you can rely on the individual to manage your companion with care. With professionalism, expertise, and concern. Whether you see this on a certificate or a nametag, it says positive things about how your companion will be treated, and this gives you peace of mind.
Low-Stress Handling Certification
Our employees who have received Sophia Yin’s Low-Stress Handling Certification have been trained to recognize the overt and subtle signs of fear and anxiety in dogs and cats, as well as to avoid the common mistakes people make when approaching and greeting pets, which can lead to more fearful or aggressive interactions.
Our Low-Stress Certified professionals have been instructed on how to manage our patients in a calm, non-threatening manner, as well as how to create a less stressful, safer, and more secure environment for animals.
What Does This Certification Mean For Me and My Pet?
Low-Stress Handling skills demonstrate to clients and employers that you are knowledgeable about animal behavior, up-to-date on new trends and techniques, and compassionate towards your patients. Knowing how to manage patients in a Low Tension manner can actually determine whether you have a one-time patient or a long-term client. A veterinarian who knows how to calmly and gently manage their patients will gain the goodwill and loyalty of their clients.
Our employees are trained to:
- Recognize the overt and covert indicators of fear and anxiety in dogs and cats, as well as the common errors people make when approaching and greeting pets that make them more fearful or aggressive. They have learned to approach and interact with animals in a calm, nonthreatening manner.
- Learned how the sights, sounds, scents, and surfaces in your office may be aggravating our patients’ tension. Discovered methods to create a more tranquil, secure, and safe environment.
- Learned five techniques for rear control and seven for front control of canines. Possessing the ability to determine which movement directions (forward, back, right, left, up, and down) each hold regulates. Evaluate the best restraint hold for a specific dog and procedure.
- Comprehend how every interaction – how we approach, take up, move, and restrain animals – impacts their perception of us and their willingness to cooperate. Learned how to position our bodies and modify our movements to provide the animal with the necessary direction and guidance.
We hope that our Certification in Low-Stress Handling will make future visits to the veterinarian for you and your companion much more enjoyable.
What is Fear Free Certification?
When a veterinarian becomes Fear Free Certified, they demonstrate their commitment to providing our four-legged patients with veterinary care that seeks to reduce the fear, anxiety, and stress that often accompany a journey to the veterinarian.
Our Fear Free Certified team members have received extensive training on how to create a calm and welcoming environment for pets, as well as how to recognize when an animal is fearful or agitated and requires a more compassionate approach.
Ways We Have Implemented The Low-Stress Handling In Our Hospital?
Cat Nip
We may catnip to entice your cat and help ameliorate his fear. Given in the exam rooms as it can have a calming, soothing effect, and help reduce a cat’s stress level.
Tasty Treats
We have a variety of tasty treats (canned food, liver treats, liver paste, cheese whiz to name a few) to offer our feline and canine clients in a variety of easy-to-dispense methods. By offering treats while we give patients shots and trim their nails the results are less stress and less aggression from our patients.
Relocate Pets
If a patient seems more anxious or stressed in the waiting room then we move them into an available exam room where they can relax with their owner before their appointments start.
Feliway Spray
It helps comfort and reassure cats by mimicking the natural facial pheromone that happy cats use to mark their territory as safe and familiar. It is clinically proven to help reduce the stress that leads to unwanted behaviors.
Adaptil Spray
It mimics this natural appeasing pheromone to help dogs of all ages feel safe and secure when they encounter new or challenging situations. It is clinically proven to help increase focus during training and reduce the stress that leads to unwanted behaviors.
Minimal Movement
We try to do any procedure that we can in the exam room if we can so we don’t have to move the pet to another environment and causing more undue stress adjusting.
Early Discharge
If we have patients that are stressed being in the clinic after a procedure (such as routine surgeries like spays or neuters) then we will send them home as long as they aren’t painful or need extra monitoring.
Separate hospitalization rooms for Cats and Dogs
Play calming music in hospitalization rooms.
