Workshops, Seminars and Lectures

What Have You Done?: Understanding Complicated Canine and Feline Behavior

The Forgotten Mourners: The Impact of Animal Dying and Death on the Family

The First Good-Bye: The Impact of Animal Dying and Death on Children

Only a Dog: Catastrophic Illness, Injury or Death of Animal Family Members

Killed In Action: The Retirement or Death of an Equine or K-9 Law Enforcement Partner or Assistance Dog

Get Rid of It: People with Life Threatening Illness or Allergy and Animals

The Mourning After: How to Manage the Aftermath of Loss

The Missing Link: Allied Health Care (physical and aqua-therapy, etc.) for Animals

Flowers to the Rescue: The Use of Bach and other Flower Essence Therapy

Kill the Messenger: Emotional Reaction to Dog and Cat Bite/Scratch

At the Gate: Close of Life Issues, Helping Animals to Leave Their Broken Bodies ~ Hospice and Comfort Care

And Then There Were None: Unrecognized and Chronic Grief in Veterinarians, Techs, Hospital and other Animal Care Facility Staff

The Race for Time: Recurrent Life-Threatening Illness in Companion Animals

Complimentary and Alternative Veterinary Care: How to (where appropriate)Understand and Blend the Best of it All.

A Saucer of Milk: Feline Nutrition

Throw the Dog a Bone: K-9 Nutrition

What Have You Done?: Complicated Animal Behavior, Unrecognized Grief, Anxiety, Depression, Sadness and Aggression in Cats, Dogs and other Animals

Suppose We Gave A Funeral and No One Came: The Role of the Funeral, other Rituals/Memorials and After Care of the Bereaved ~ Both Human and Animal

Take One! They’re Good For You: Ethical Questions and Concerns Surrounding Animal Facilitated Therapy, Visitation and other Therapeutic “Use” Of Animals

Myth and Nonsense: The Separation of Fact from Fiction Surrounding Animals, Their Behavior, Their Relationships with each other and Society

Between Friends: Animal-Animal Relations/Kinship

The Road to Recovery: Pain Recognition and Pain Control for Animals

The Tie That Binds: An Experiential Work-Shop in Sudden Death. Not for the Newly Bereaved

Song for a Duke: Memory as a Healing Tool for Mourners. Memory! The power or process of remembering…The story of things remembered…Commemorative remembrance…Reminiscence. Memory is all of these things and, for those who mourn, much more. For some, a dark place of haunting, a thing to be avoided, painful images and deep regrets. Song For A Duke will explore (with the use of a specially designed video) the healing of the human heart that has been touched by the death of an animal friend. This approach assists people in moving from an extinguished relationship of the present to a comforting relationship of memory while actively facilitating a meaningful mourning process.