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WEB CONFERENCES (IN QUEBEC)
Cat conferences
This new series of 1.5-hour lectures, online only, covers very specific topics in feline behavior to help adopters and professionals better understand a cat’s needs and live in harmony with him.
Cat’doption – Everything you need to adopt a cat
In this 1.5-hour course, we’ll look at the important points to check before adopting a kitten or adult cat, and the things you need to know and do to integrate it into family life:
- Selection criteria for the right cat/kitten for you
- Pitfalls to avoid when looking to adopt a cat/kitten
- Guides to choosing your breeder
- Guides to choosing a refuge
- Guides to bringing in a stray cat
- How to prepare the environment for kitty’s arrival
- Integration with other animals
- Question period at the end to help you with your cat
Cat on leash
And yes, it’s perfectly possible and even very rewarding for a cat to be walked on a leash. In this course, you’ll learn the essential steps to get your cat toenjoy walking on a leash:
- Choosing the right harness
- Harness desensitization steps
- Steps to take your cat outdoors
- Teaching your cat to walk on a leash
- Teaching your cat to walk at a walking pace
- Dangers and things to watch out for when walking your cat on a leash
- Question period at the end to help you with your cat
Cat in training
Amaze your friends by showing them how your cat sits on command, does a 360, plays dead or does hi-fives. These tricks are not only very easy to get your cat to do, they’re also a great way to stimulate and enrich its living environment. What’s more, these tricks can easily be transformed into voluntary care for your cat:
- The mechanics of basic learning
- Preparing your training
- Mistakes not to be made
- Tricks for doing tricks
- Targeting
- From training to voluntary care
- Question period at the end to help you with your cat
All about pet bereavement
Many people are deeply affected by the loss of their pet. As the distress felt is often misunderstood by those around us, it can be difficult to share our pain. The Educator will be accompanied by an expert to address people’s main concerns about pet bereavement:
- When do we know “it’s time?”
- Should we accompany our pet to the end?
- What you should know about euthanasia
- Euthanasia at home or at the clinic?
- How to deal with the incredible guilt that overwhelms us
- The people around us who don’t understand (family, work, boss)
- How to support our children
- Getting through the stages of grief
- Ritual ideas
- Ask your questions
Cat accepts care well
Because sooner or later, every adopter is going to have to give medication or simply have to trim their cat’s nails or brush it. Here are the tricks to avoid having to fight to give your cat care or medication:
- Desensitization and counter-conditioning techniques
- Mistakes not to make
- Tips for giving medication easily
- Tips for brushing a cat easily
- Tips for trimming claws easily
- How to give special care without fighting with your cat
- What to do when you don’t have a choice and the cat won’t do it
- Question period at the end to help you with your cat
Cat gets along well with baby
- Preparing for baby’s arrival
- Adapting the cat’s environment
- Teaching the child to interact well with the cat
- How to strengthen the bond between child and cat
- Which cat to adopt when you have children?
- Question period
Cat cohabits
Are your cats not getting along? You’ve just adopted a new cat and your old one isn’t really accepting it? Or perhaps war has suddenly broken out between your cats following a visit to the groomer or vet? This conference is for you.
In this talk, we explore ways to avoid misunderstandings between cats and give some tips for improving cat relationships. Whether it’s following a new adoption, a sudden disagreement after a grooming session or a visit to the vet, or simply if your cats are still in tension, we’ll give you tips on how to improve the relationship.
IMPORTANT: This lecture does not offer solutions for serious cases of aggression where one or both cats are suffering, or if there are occasional injuries, as these situations inevitably require professional consultation.
Cat gets along well with dog
A joint conference with a dog behaviorist and a cat behaviorist. We will discuss the particularities of cohabitation between dogs and cats, looking at both sides of the coin:
- How to make a good dog and cat introduction
- How to adapt your home to dog-cat cohabitation
- Dog and cat body language
- Mistakes not to make with pitou
- Mistakes not to make with kitty
- When Pitou chases Minou
- When Minou attacks Pitou
- Question period
Cat won’t go to the litter box
This conference reviews the different triggers for litter box elimination, and the solutions involved.
- Urinary elimination or marking
- Stool out of the bin
- Why does your cat sulk in the litter box?
- The impact of relationships between cats
- The influence of novelty (new spouse, move, birth of a child)
Cat destroys everything
- Cat and Christmas tree
- Cat destroys everything: solutions for saving furniture
- Remedy the nibbling of objects, wires and plants
- Cat training: to punish him or not to make him stop
Cat afraid of everything
Is your cat afraid of visitors, of the sweeper, or are you unable to approach him since his recent arrival, because he’s always hidden under the bed? This conference is for you.
In this one-hour lecture, we’ll explore the different contexts that can explain why a cat becomes fearful. We’ll provide you with techniques for desensitizing your cat to fearful stimuli, such as the street sweeper or the doorbell. Learning to enjoy visitors or getting used to people will help your cat live a less stressful life in your home.
The cat in the story
Without cats, our civilization would not exist. This bold assertion will be proven in this lecture, filled with amusing anecdotes tracing the history and origins of the cat’s association with man, and featuring several famous cat stories.
Cat moves
This conference will give you all the tips you need to make your move a success with a minimum of stress for your cat… and for you!
- Prepare your move in advance
- Precautions to take
- What’s the safest room for cats on moving day?
- Transportation by car
- Preparing the reception room
- How to minimize stress on arrival
- Getting the cat used to its new environment
- Help him explore his new home
- How long before you let him out
- Question period at the end to help you with your cat
Cats age well
- How to recognize when your cat is aging: the importance of veterinary care
- Age-related problem behaviors and solutions
- How to keep your elderly cat in good shape
- Offer stimulating independent activities to maintain the cat’s cognitive functions.
Customer service : Handling difficult customers
If you work with the public, you’re bound to face increasingly difficult situations with unhappy customers. The phenomenon is particularly alarming in the animal sector, where people’s passion, their sense of responsibility for their animal and their powerlessness to help their animal themselves add emotions that are often difficult to manage.
Whether you work in a veterinary clinic, shelter, pet boutique or as a behaviorist, this training course will give you many tools to negotiate with disgruntled and even insulting customers, enabling you to avoid outbursts and, in most cases, satisfy the complainant to the point of making him or her a loyal customer.
Our conferences are available as live webconferences:
- The web conferencing solution used is that of ZOOM conferencing. This solution is very easy to use and requires no prior computer knowledge. It can be used on a computer, mobile device or tablet.
- HOW IT WORKS: You’ll receive an invitation via e-mail with a hyperlink and precise instructions on how to do it. All you have to do is click on this link, which opens :
- either the conference on your web browser, if you are on a computer
- or an app, if you’re on your tablet or smartphone.
- You have the image of the training room, hear everything that’s being said as if you were there, and can ask questions via your microphone or by writing via the application’s online discussion (chat).
- Moderators from Éduchateur will also be available at all times to answer your questions via online chat, should you have any questions about your chat, academic or technical concerns.
- You must attend the conference live. Although the conference is recorded in case of technical glitches on our side, we do not offer the recorded training offline if the technical problem is on your side or if you are unable to attend live.
- Many people worry about spending so much time in front of a screen. In our experience, almost everyone tells us that it’s not much different from sitting in a chair in the gym, and that it’s actually much more comfortable to be at home with your cats to munch on. Note also that most devices these days can be connected to the TV to make the experience more enjoyable. What’s more, we take several breaks during the conference so that people can ask questions in private and go for a quick bathroom break to stretch their arms and legs.
- Prices and conditions are exactly the same as if you were present.
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