Essentials for raising a puppy

In an interview with dvm360, Christopher Pachel, DVM, DACVB, CABC, owner and lead clinician of Animal Behavior Clinic in Portland, Oregon, shared what his favorite lecture that he will be presenting at dvm360’s Fetch Coastal conference will be: Puppy Parenting: Fundamentals for Busy Practitioners. In this preview of his lecture, Pachel emphasized the importance of proactive socialization for puppies.

Pachel will be presenting 6 other lectures on October 14. Topics will span canine noise phobia, behavioral euthanasia, neurologic vs behavioral conditions, therapeutic interventions for stress conditions in cats, and more.

Fetch Coastal will take place from October 14-16, 2024, at the Atlantic City Convention Center in New Jersey. Additional details and registration can be found here.

The following is the interview transcript:

Christopher Pachel, DVM, DACVB, CABC: So I will say that one of my favorite sessions that I get the opportunity to present, actually this one's going to be at Fetch Coastal, is the Puppy Parenting roadmap, and actually looking at some of the proactive socialization strategies that we have, not only understanding sort of the implications of what happens when we don't provide adequate socialization, or we're little off the mark in terms of how we do that, but really trying to make it really practical and approachable for pet owners, so it's something that they can do and understand, knowing that when they bring in new puppies into their household, there's a lot of work that goes into raising those puppies into well-mannered adult dogs, and so really trying to equip our pet parents with as many of those skills in practical, tangible ways as possible. That's what we're going to be talking about with the puppy parenting session. And I think that one looks like it's on Monday the 14th of October at Fetch Coastal in Atlantic City.