First Aid Seminar for Performance Dogs - Page 1

Mystere,
That is excellent and really needed.  We are hosting a seminar for K9 trauma wounds next month.  The seminar is for LEO and Military but has sport applications.  Our seminar will focus on life threatening injuries such as gun shot wounds, stabbing, bloat and K9's hit by cars.  The seminar we are putting together will be hands on.  Tthe techniques taught and demonstrated are battle proven and taught by vets and vet techs that actually deploy with our special forces. 

Sport dogs and pets can be injured very easily and with the right training can be easily saved.  That's great that your club is hosting that seminar. 

Jim

Wish I lived in your area and could attend. Great event Mystere. Hope it goes well.

This is something I have wanted a sch club to do for years- first and and injury prevention. I am really looking forward to this seminar. If I learn ONE thing to help me prevent an injury, it is worth 10 times the cost. Thankfully, we won't have to address the types of injuries LEOs must-gunshots, shudders!

Nia,
We experience some of the same injuries as sport dogs and some that are different.  Our dogs may sit in a car for a couple of hours than be taken out to do a long strenuous track or a down field bite on a fleeing suspect.   Often on our tracks we are crossing ditches in the dark and climbing or jumping over fences and obstacles.  When I heard that one of our guys was organizing this class I immediately thought of the sport dog world.  It is really great that you are doing this.  We spend hours and hours with our dogs but how prepared are we if something happens to the animal.  When speaking with the guys in organizing our class it was mentioned that most vets have never been able to save a fog from some of the injuries he routinely sees.  These guys are very skilled at saving the MWD's lives and not only do they save the dogs but they get them back to work pretty quickly.  The biggest reason they can save some dogs is that they can provide life saving techniques immediately and that training makes all the difference.   

If I was nearby I would definitely go to your seminar as well, it is rare that this type of seminar is offered.

Jim

Thanks, Jim! A club member who is a vet tech put it together. The veterinary hospital involved is one of the premier offices in the area with sports medicine and reproduction specialists, among others. ¶I am hoping that we will be able to repeat the seminar on a regular basis as time goes on. It is definitely something that everyone who is actively training a dog in any venue can use and from which we can all gain benefits. ¶ Some folks have spent good money on canine first aid kits...but have not a clue what to do with most of the contents. I know I don't !! :-) ¶ Wouldn't be wonderful if someone learned one thing that could really help their dog in the event of an injury?

For those people in the UK that wish to attend an excellent First Course the link below provides details of the ONLY NATIONALLY recognised Canine First Aid Certificate which is valid for three years.

The programme was designed by vets and is delivered by them and is a mixture of talk and chalk, practical exercises on real dogs, resusci dogs, with a written exam and viva voce.

Also included are course notes, a DVD of the techniques practised on the course and a small First Aid Kit plus a beautiful certificate.

In addition the vets who put this together are those that work their dogs in the Field (Gundogs) where often quite horrible injuries occur with barbed wire etc.

It is not cheap but IMHO better than most FA courses you see advertised.

http://caninefirstaider.com/

Watching the heart-breaking coverage on Haiti, it strikes me that the SAR community also needs courses inn first aid for their dogs. They probably have such courses as part of their preparation and training anyway. But, just to make sure... :-) Btw--Oregon residents may want to consider attending, too. Cabelas is just off I-5, about 90 minutes from the state line.