Why cooperative care?

Dogs simply do not need to fear veterinary offices, staff, and procedures. With good training, many dogs can instead learn to be comfortable or even happy at the vet’s office, and there can be no better gift to our dogs than a more joyful life.

After years of production, testing and refining of training plans aimed at improving dogs’ comfort level during routine veterinary procedures, The Academy is pleased to release the final product. The Husbandry Project booklet is a collection of how-to instructions, stationing plans and “Conditioned Emotional Response” or CER plans. These plans have been vetted by hundreds of trainers and dog owners.