PetAdvisor

ASSISTANCE with PET BEHAVIOR problems

$45.00/house call
$0.45/mile

Janet is available to come to your home and give expert advice on any pet behavior problem.

Janet’s hands on experience in animal behavior includes 12 years working in small animal practice where she not only assisted the veterinarian, provided pre and post operative care, and administered daily treatments to hospitalized patients; responsibilities also included pre-veterinary (pre-vet) exams.

Pre-vet exams included talking with the owner about their pet and evaluating the animal.

Exams included taking a temperature, looking for signs of stress, and assessing temperament before the veterinarian stepped in the room for the professional examination.

Puppies and kittens are expected to visit the veterinarian every 3 - 4 weeks until they are 4 – 6 months old for routine vaccinations. Janet often performed the majority of these routine visits, never replacing the professional expertise of a veterinarian, but saving the veterinarian valuable time.

Routine visits included educating clients on animal care and often included solving (or preventing) behavior problems.

Janet continued her role as educator when she entered the field of laboratory animal medicine in 1996.

From 1996 - 2001 she was the Animal Core Training Technician. She provided training and technical services to researchers who study animals to better understand, treat, and cure disease.

She published an article on collecting blood from mice in Lab Animal; November, 2000: Methods of Blood Collection in the Mouse

She also co-authored an article on colleting blood pressures from mice published in American Journal of Physiology; February, 2004: Comparison of simultaneous measurement of mouse systolic arterial blood pressure by radiotelemetry and tail-cuff methods. In this article it is noted:
Although tail-cuff determinations of systolic pressure in mice have the advantage that they are surgically noninvasive, they require significant training of both operator and mouse to be accurate and reliable. Figure 2 illustrates that a well-trained operator can restrain a mouse for tail-cuff measurements and do repeated inflation-deflation cycles without major changes in systolic pressure. This, however, is the product of great care and gentle handling of each mouse. Even with repeated training of the mouse, and its acclimation to the testing chamber, we found that movement artifacts can be reduced but not always eliminated. This became evident to us while handling a particularly difficult (DOCA hypertensive) mouse that refused to enter the restrainer even after several days of training. When he was forced to enter the restrainer, collections were unreadable due to movement. Only after very carefully handling the mouse, simply directing him toward the restrainer and letting him walk in on his own, were we able to collect 10 readable tracings. Although anecdotal, others have reported similar experiences particularly with DOCA-hypertenisve animals (personal communication).

Janet continues to provide training to investigators while also handling and training mice and rats as the Coordinator for the Center for Integrative Genomics (since 2001). The Center provides training and technical assistants to investigators interested in determining the physical and metabolic physiology of their animal; including (but not limited to): blood pressure, EKG, behavior analysis, and ultrasound imaging.

Please contact Janet if you are interested in getting some help with your pet. Whether furry, feathered, or scaly, she can positively help.

Home Phone: 734-433-1057
E-mail: equinecharmschool@yahoo.com

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