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Students and Veterinarians Learn to Handle Pets in a Safe, Low Stress Manner. Pets are Happier.
It's a quiet, gray day outside in Madison, Wisconsin, but inside, the room's abuzz. Fifteen dogs of various sizes are being handled by veterinarians and veterinary students in the Happy Pets, Happy Vets behavior and low stress handling workshop. The workshop, organized by the Behavior Club at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin is my first symposium in Wisconsin. The event, consisting of a full-day lecture and half-day lab is so popular that it has to be held at a larger venue, an off-sight hotel. And a number of lecture participants are wait-listed for the labs. The lab covers low stress handling techniques on both dogs and cats. »