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How to Train Your Pets to Make Them Familiar with Veterinary Visits
Here are things you can train your pets to make them familiar with veterinary visits:
- Leash training, bag training, or crate training for traveling: Training your pets to be on a leash, stay in a bag, or stay in a crate for traveling helps them have an easier time during veterinary visits. Starting from when they are still young and training them step by step, you should first train them to be familiar with leashes, bags, and crates before training them to stay in one longer.
- Training your pets to go outside: Routinely training your pets to go outside helps them become familiar with their outdoor surroundings and reduce stress during veterinary visits. Starting by exposing them to the outdoor environment for a short period of time before staying outdoors longer.
- Veterinary visit training: Veterinary visits help your pets become familiar with their surroundings at pet hospitals, with staff, and with vets. You may start taking them for vaccination, anthelmintic treatments, or grooming. You should reward them after every visit.
- Preparing for veterinary visits: Preparing for veterinary visits can help your pets become less stressed. You can start with preparing necessary items, such as a leash, a bag or a crate, a toy, and some treats. Remember to feed your pet before the visit.
- Visiting a cat-friendly hospital or clinic: Visiting a cat-friendly hospital or clinic can help your cat become less stressed with the help of experienced and specially-trained vets and staff and cat-friendly surroundings.
- Rewarding, cheering, and praising your pets: Rewarding, cheering, and praising your pets helps them feel better and encourages them to do such activities. You should reward them after every training session.
Besides training your pets, another key factor is for the pet owners to remain calm and relaxed during the veterinary visits. Pets can sense their owners’ emotions, so if you are stressed, your pet will be, too. You can also use pheromone spray to spray it around the bag or the stroller to dramatically reduce your pets’ stress and anxiety.