Albany Pet Services Podcast

Albany Pet Services

Lisa Sinnott hosts a podcast about companion animals. Animal health and behaviour experts and charities will talk about animals and how can and how they enriching their lives. We will talk about training, behaviour and how we can promote our pets mental and physical health. Expect to raise your eyebrows in surprise from all the new facts and knowledge you'll gain. Join our group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1127356154286472/

  1. 05/04/2022

    Episode 18 - Kids around Dogs

    Debby Lucken is a fully qualified dog trainer with the Institute of Modern Dog Trainers and dog behaviourist with the International School of Canine Psychology. She is a member of the Pet Professional Network, ICAN International Companion Animal Network, the Pet Professional Guild, the International Association of Animal Behaviour Consultants, INTODogs and The Dog Welfare Alliance. Debby has over 7 years’ experience working with dogs, and she specialises in helping families with kids to train and raise their dogs to be great family companions. Some of her clients have also gone and become great therapy dogs in schools and nursing homes. Debby is the founder of Kids Around Dogs (KAD), which is an association of force-free dog professionals who specialise in helping families with children and dogs to live in harmony together. Moreover, Debby has designed a successful protocol to overcome the fear of dogs in kids, which all of the KAD Approved Professionals are qualified to use. Debby is based in Poole, Dorset, with her husband Gary, their daughter Molly, their 2 doggies Wilco the Pug and Winnie the Golden Retriever and Mario the cat. Dorset is where Debby runs her dog training and behavioural sessions under the name of Pocodogs, however she delivers lessons and webinars globally (she is also bilingual, speaking English and Italian, which allows her to help more professionals and dog’s handlers around the world). Kids Around Dogs is on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Twitter & TikTok www.kidsarounddogs.co.uk

    Episode 18 - Kids around Dogs
  2. 03/28/2021

    14 - Canine Arthritis Management - For any dog guardian

    Hannah Capon MA Vet MB MRCVS, winner of the 2020 Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Impact Award, the 2019 Ceva Vet of the Year and finalist in the 2019 Petplan Vet of the Year, is a first opinion veterinary surgeon in the UK. Recognised for her tireless work on Canine Arthritis Management (CAM) an online education and support service for owners of arthritic dogs and professionals that care for them. CAM began as a simple Facebook page in 2015 where Hannah would promote earlier identification and thorough multimodal management plans. Now it boasts a flourishing service run by a team of veterinary professionals who volunteer their time and expertise to help owners. CAM has become an unstoppable force. A respected website full of downloads, like the unique Home Safe tool (#itsmyhometoo), a large social media presence through Facebook, Instagram, twitter and YouTube. An online shop stocking awareness merchandise, owner education and other canine essentials. An education provider for first opinion practices, as well as dog groups, paraprofessionals and owners. An inspirational campaign group to raise awareness of the serious nature of this disease (#yourdogmoreyears) CAM has worked with numerous industry partners but are especially proud of recent work with Hills Pet Foods creating a 12 part webinar series that had 1300 sign ups within the first 3 weeks of release. Check out her website: https://caninearthritis.co.uk/ Here is the link to the Animals paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/10/2/318/htm

    14 - Canine Arthritis Management - For any dog guardian
  3. 02/11/2021

    Fundamentally Feline - Making your home more feline friendly

    Ingrid Johnson is a Certified Cat Behavior Consultant (CCBC) through The International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants (IAABC). Below are links to a variety of Food Puzzle help to compliment the topics we spoke about: Food Puzzles: A Beginners Guide to Getting Started Implementing Foraging as A Feeding Protocol So, You Think You Have A Master Forager? A Guide to Increasing the Challenge A Food Puzzle Tutorial: Getting the Most Out of Your Food Puzzles Food Puzzles for Cats Ingrid owns and operates Fundamentally Feline and provides behavior consultations worldwide for clients experiencing behavior challenges with their cat(s). In addition to behavior consults, Ingrid publishes educational content on her website, manages Facebook, Twitter, You Tube and Instagram pages, makes her own line of feline foraging toys, scratching posts, vertical space, and litter boxes. She lectures nationwide on cat behavior at veterinary conferences such as AAFP, VMX, ACVC and the like. She is employed at Paws Whiskers and Claws, a feline only veterinary hospital, as a tech, groomer, and office manager and has been working exclusively with cats since 1999. In the Fall of 2016 a paper she co-authored, Food puzzles for cats: Feeding for physical and emotional well-being, was published in the JFMS (Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery) and to compliment it she co-developed a website called FoodPuzzlesforCats.com. To date it is the most popular and widely downloaded paper in the history of the journal! Ingrid’s home, cats, and environmental enrichment expertise has been featured on Animal Planet’s Cats101 show. She filmed for the website WebMD and has created a series of educational How-To videos of her own, viewable on Fundamentally Feline’s website. She is Co-Director of Paw Project-Georgia, working towards ending the cruel practice of de-clawing cats. Cat Fancy magazine’s 2008 “Home Issue” showcased her feline friendly accommodations and the aesthetically pleasing ways you can provide for your cats innate basic needs while still having a home the humans can enjoy. Ingrid is a huge advocate for enrichment and is determined to thwart the belief that one’s home will look unsightly in efforts to provide it. Ingrid shares her home with husband, Jake, six rescue cats, and Sebastian, a rescued Great Pyrenees Dog. Find out more about Ingrid's work at: https://www.fundamentallyfeline.com/services/consulting/ https://www.fundamentallyfeline.com/services/medicating-consults/

    Fundamentally Feline - Making your home more feline friendly

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Lisa Sinnott hosts a podcast about companion animals. Animal health and behaviour experts and charities will talk about animals and how can and how they enriching their lives. We will talk about training, behaviour and how we can promote our pets mental and physical health. Expect to raise your eyebrows in surprise from all the new facts and knowledge you'll gain. Join our group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1127356154286472/