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#104: A Dedication To Difficult Dogs: How Getting Better At Behaviour Medicine Can Make You Happier. With Dr Dennis Wormald.
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#104: A Dedication To Difficult Dogs: How Getting Better At Behaviour Medicine Can Make You Happier. With Dr Dennis Wormald.
FromThe Vet Vault
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Length:
78 minutes
Released:
Oct 17, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Dr Dennis Wormald wants us to take another look at that word - difficult - when it comes to our patients.
Dennis is a veterinarian with a deep-rooted passion for understanding and addressing canine behaviour and anxiety. His entry into the world of animal behaviour began before his vet degree with a biomedical science degree with a neuroscience major, and research experience in addiction neuroscience. An increasing interest in behaviour during his years as a GP vet led to a PhD on canine anxiety in 2017 and to Dennis attaining membership by examination of the ANZCVS behaviour chapter. Since 2021 he’s been working solely in behaviour referral practice.
He’s also the founder of ABADog.com, a platform that he initially designed to make his own behaviour consults better by collecting ALL the important behaviour history for you and then collating the information to create a tailor-made behaviour plan for the patient, and in 2023 Dennis added ‘author’ to his bio with the release of "A Dedication to Difficult Dogs: A Heartwarming Tale Shedding Light on Canine Mental Health”
Of course you’ll find the links for both those in the show description wherever you’re listening to this.
We talk about, amongst other things, what it is about behaviour as a field of veterinary science that puts so many people off, why so many of us as so bad at it, and why getting better at it by increasing our knowledge and our empathy - won’t just make you a better vet, but also a safer vet, and reduce a lot of your work related stress. Dennis also shares some practical strategies, tips and tools that will instantly lift your game in your next behaviour consult and in your general interaction with dogs.
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Dennis is a veterinarian with a deep-rooted passion for understanding and addressing canine behaviour and anxiety. His entry into the world of animal behaviour began before his vet degree with a biomedical science degree with a neuroscience major, and research experience in addiction neuroscience. An increasing interest in behaviour during his years as a GP vet led to a PhD on canine anxiety in 2017 and to Dennis attaining membership by examination of the ANZCVS behaviour chapter. Since 2021 he’s been working solely in behaviour referral practice.
He’s also the founder of ABADog.com, a platform that he initially designed to make his own behaviour consults better by collecting ALL the important behaviour history for you and then collating the information to create a tailor-made behaviour plan for the patient, and in 2023 Dennis added ‘author’ to his bio with the release of "A Dedication to Difficult Dogs: A Heartwarming Tale Shedding Light on Canine Mental Health”
Of course you’ll find the links for both those in the show description wherever you’re listening to this.
We talk about, amongst other things, what it is about behaviour as a field of veterinary science that puts so many people off, why so many of us as so bad at it, and why getting better at it by increasing our knowledge and our empathy - won’t just make you a better vet, but also a safer vet, and reduce a lot of your work related stress. Dennis also shares some practical strategies, tips and tools that will instantly lift your game in your next behaviour consult and in your general interaction with dogs.
Topic list:
Join our community of Vet Vault Nerds to lift your clinical game and get your groove back with our up-to-date, easy-to-consume clinical episodes at vvn.supercast.com.
Visit thevetvault.com for show notes and resources related to this episode.
Connect with us through our online Vet Vault Network for episode highlights, clinical resources, discussions, questions and support.
Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here for Hubert's favourite clinical and non-clinical learnings.
Get up and running (or working!) with a 10% discount for Tarkine shoes, the official shoe of the Vet Vault by using the code Vetvault at checkout.
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Released:
Oct 17, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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