Cooperative care makes caring for your dog safer, less stressful, and more consistent for you, your pets, and anyone else involved. However, teaching pets the behaviors needed for cooperative care can intimidate even the most well-intended trainers and pet guardians (injection training? Yikes!). Then, your social media feed shows you perfection in finished behaviors that seem so out of reach. Don’t be daunted by the process! Sara McLoudrey is here to show you how cooperative care skills can be fun to learn, practice, show others, and blend into every day life. Cooperative care need not be “chore-full.” It should be joyful, for everyone involved!

For Sara, the road to cooperative care success is paved with fun skills, silliness, and “trick-style” behaviors that reinforce the learning process for clients and their pets. Just because the training is fun, it does not mean Sara does not take learning or these behaviors seriously! The techniques taught in this Learning Lab work for preventive care and pets with a history of aggression—Sara’s specialty!

Join our Cool Tricks for Cooperative Care to learn how to make serious progress with your cooperative care skills using some seriously fun training!