Bay Area Vet Behavior

24/01/2025

This is the perfect time to sign up for individual training sessions or group classes at JoyBound People and Pets.

January is Train Your Dog Month 🐾—the perfect time to strengthen your bond with your dog through training! But not all trainers are created equal. Choosing a qualified, humane trainer who understands animal behavior is key to your dog’s success and well-being and the ACVB site has resources to help. 🐶💡

✅ How to Select a Trainer: Whether you’re a pet owner or a veterinarian, these guides help you make informed choices:

How to Select a Trainer - A Guide for Owners
How to Select a Trainer - A Guide for Veterinarians

Find them here: https://www.dacvb.org/page/AnimalOwners

If you need advanced behavior support, consider consulting a Board-Certified Veterinary Behaviorist. These are veterinarians certified by the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists (ACVB) with extensive training in behavior medicine and modification. Visit the ACVB site for a Diplomate Directory!

Empower your pup and start their training journey with the right resources! 🦴🐕

24/01/2025

📅 🥳 Are you joining us on Saturday, February 8? Buckle up for an incredible day as we celebrate the human-animal bond with food trucks, a beer garden, games, activities, and adoptable animals from shelters across Northern California.
Bring your family, bring your friends, bring your casual acquaintances — they certainly won't want to miss Joybound's Unleash the LOVE Festival and Adopt-a-thon!
https://joybound.org/event/unleash-the-love-adopt-a-thon-celebration/

23/01/2025

18/01/2025

16/01/2025

📅✍️ Join us on Saturday, February 8 for our second-annual Unleash the LOVE: Festival & Adopt-a-thon! Celebrate the human-animal bond with a day of games, food trucks, and adoptable animals from shelters and rescue groups across Northern California. It's going to be PAWS-itively incredible!
https://joybound.org/event/unleash-the-love-adopt-a-thon-celebration/

12/01/2025

My team is on their way down south to help out with LA County Animal Care. Please help if you can by fostering, adopting or donating.

🚨 Fosters & Support Needed! 🚨

We’re sending a team to LA to bring animals from Los Angeles Animal Services to Joybound, making room for more dogs and cats impacted by the devastating fires.

📢 How You Can Help:

🐾 Foster: Open your heart and home to a pet in need. Sign up today!

🏡 Adopt: Give a forever home to a rescued pet and change their life.

💙 Donate: Your contribution provides these rescued animals care, shelter, and medical support.

🌟 Join us in making a difference! Sign up to foster and donate today. Together, we can give these animals a second chance at safety and love. 🐶🐱

https://joybound.org/get-involved/foster/
https://joybound.org/donate/

10/01/2025

Shelter to Service offers a free, personalized matching service to connect each applicant with an animal who will complement their lifestyle and help them

07/01/2025

21/12/2024

Jared Asch hosts the Capstone Conversation - East Bay News, leadership, government, and the community.

20/12/2024

16/12/2024

🎙️ A VTS (Behavior)’s Key Takeaways to the 2024 AAFP’s Intercat Tension Guidelines with Tabitha Kucera! 🐾✨

In today’s podcast, we interview Tabitha Kucera, CCBC, RVT, KPA-CTP, VTS (Behavior) and owner of Chirrups and Chatter Behavior Consulting. Join us as we discuss the key takeaways for the 2024 AAFP Intercat Tension Guidelines, focusing on recognition, prevention, and management strategies for feline intercat tension. Learn how to enhance the well-being of our feline friends through effective behavioral strategies!

🔗 https://vetgirlontherun.com/podcasts/a-vts-behaviors-key-takeaways-to-the-2024-aafps-intercat-tension-guidelines-with-tabitha-kucera/

15/12/2024

Want to learn more about cognitive dysfunction? Please read my latest article on Today's Veterinary Practice:

With early diagnosis and early intervention, veterinarians can help pet owners preserve their pets’ quality of life and mental wellbeing.

14/12/2024

✂️🐶 Is your pup ready to put their best paw forward with a fresh cut at Joybound's Engelstad Grooming Academy? Visit the link below to sign up for $10 off their first haircut!
https://joybound.org/groomingdiscount

13/12/2024

Some of the chihuahuas will be available tomorrow!

12/12/2024

Unable to make it to this week's service dog foster info sessions in person? Don't fret! Joybound's Shelter to Service team is hosting a virtual webinar info session tomorrow afternoon at 1 pm. RSVP at the link below and find out how becoming a volunteer shelter trainer will change lives — including yours!
https://joybound.org/event/meet-the-shelter-to-service-team-2/

11/12/2024

We want 🫵YOU🫵 to get involved with Shelter to Service! By now, you know about how opening your home to a canine service dog candidate can change that dog's future forever. But, there's so much more to it than that! RSVP to this week's Shelter to Service information sessions to find out what all the hype is about!
https://joybound.org/event/meet-the-shelter-to-service-team-3/

07/12/2024

Retired Air Force Sergeant Jeff Thomas walked on stage from behind the curtain at the Lesher Center for the Arts with his psychiatric service dog, Maddie, and approached the podium at Walnut Creek’s 2024 Veterans Day Ceremony, flanked by presenters on his right and left, and the full Walnut Creek ...