• Join Dr. Nick Thompson BSc (Vet Sci) Hons, BVMS, VetMFHom, MRCVS for three 2-hour online sessions
• Comprehensive notes to downloaded
• Self-assessment quizzes to ‘release’ your 8 hours CPD certification (don’t worry, you can take them more than once if you don’t quite hit the mark first time)
• A whole year’s access to recorded sessions for reviewing key points
• Superb value for money – learn without travelling
• Watch the recordings on your iPad!

Programme

What’s All The Fuss About?

Raw feeding for pets is a Marmite subject. Those vets and nurses who love it talk about it incessantly. Those who dislike it are at a loss to know why their colleagues advocate ‘risky unbalanced food’. But both agree it’s on the rise. Some estimates suggest 10-20% of all your clients feed some or all raw meat-based diets to their pets. Therefore we are obliged to at least have a working knowledge of arguments for and against the practice. We will unpack both sides of the arguments today to allow you to make up your mind.

What you’ll learn:

• Setting the Scene: Passions are High
• Arguments Against Raw and Their Validity
• Arguments For Raw and Their Validity
• Arguments For Kibble and Tins
• Arguments Against Kibble and Tins
• Raw vs Fresh Lightly Cooked Home-Prepared

Raw Feeding: The Basics – Practical Advice for Vet Practices

A crash course in raw food orientation for the vet and vet nurse. Ten short lessons in the basics to put you one step ahead of (most) of your clients. Starting with safe and practical advice for clients dead-set on going down the raw route. We discuss ingredients, including feeding bones safely. Ensuring a diet is balanced and complete is covered in the lessons. We’ll offer tips on when to feed and how to transition to raw with minimum fuss.

What you’ll learn:

• How to Start
• The Ingredients
• Proportions and Quantities
• Ingredients: Meat
• Ingredients: Bone
• Ingredients: Veg
• Ingredients: Mins and Vits from Nuts, Herbs & Seeds
• Ingredients: Mins and Vits from Supplements
• Omega-3 Oils
• How and When to Feed & Transitions

Raw Food Therapeutics

Nutrition is essential in health. It is even more so in disease. If it is possible to support and manage common pathologies with diet from a tin or a bag, isn’t it possible with raw food? It is, of course. We have left ‘nutrition’ to the corporations for so long we’ve forgotten how to feed sick animals. Raw food offers a significant intervention opportunity for vet practices in gut, skin, renal and hepatic disease.

What you’ll learn:

• Why use Raw When We Have Prescription Diets?
• The Thompson Stool Score system
• Raw Food and Dietary Sensitivities/Intolerances
• Raw Food and Diet-Related Dermatoses
• Raw Food and Atopy?
• Raw Food and Kidney Disease
• Raw Food and Liver Disease
• Raw Food and Atopy?

The price includes all 3 sessions, notes and quiz – 8 hours of CPD

*No traffic jams, accommodation hassles, pet or childcare, rota clashes, locum fees ……….. just great CPD and a valuable ongoing resource.

Course Feedback :

“I feel more comfortable about raw feeding and I have a more in depth knowledge of the raw diet.”

“Overall the content of this course was great. Kept very simple and easy to follow and aspire to feeding raw.”

“I’ll be able to provide more balance and educated guidance on the safety of raw feeding.”