What is The Pet Prep Initiative?
The Pet Prep Initiative helps to provide dog owners, dog professionals and veterinary professionals with a structured program for learning co-operative care training.
Research tells us that co-operative care training is all well and good, but it is no good if the personnel who need to understand it are in the dark, and if the training does not get generalised to the clinic or grooming environment.
So what is the answer?
Whether you are a:
Dog Owner
Dog Professional
(trainers, behaviourists or groomers who can become a Pet Prep Certified Trainer)Vet Professional
(veterinary nurses/assistants who can become a Pet Prep Practitioner)
We can help you understand cooperative care training and all you need to know about dog behaviour to help the dog’s in your care.
By explaining outcomes to our dogs through training, we can create predictable scenarios, leading to better welfare, calmer pets, safer vet and grooming visits and happier dog owners.
Meet The Founder
Laura Ward CCAB
As a dog owner Laura understands how stressful vet and grooming visits can be. In fact, Neo, her collie has proved particularly challenging in this area.
As an experienced veterinary nurse, Laura has a deep insight into veterinary handling and restraint, and what is required during veterinary visits.
Laura now works as a Clinical Animal Behaviourist. Having always had a passion for animal’s being understood and listened to, Minds Alike Animal Training and Behaviour was founded over ten years ago.
It is through this clinical experience, and busy case load rehabilitating and training hundreds of dogs ,that The Pet Prep Initiative has been created.
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Being a strong believer in up to date theoretical knowledge, over the years Laura has completed accredited qualifications in behaviour and training including:
NVQ in Veterinary Nursing
Advanced Diploma in Canine Behaviour Management
BSc (Hons) in Applied Animal Behaviour
Achieved Certificated Clinical Animal Behaviourist (CCAB) status
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