Posts for Category: Cat Friendly Practice®

Submitted by Holley Truitt, Cat Friendly & Fear Free Certified Technician Star of Texas Veterinary Hospital, Austin, TX “When establishing our practice, we knew cats could not be an afterthought.” As the Cat Friendly Practice® program celebrates its 10-year anniversary, our organization, Star of Texas Veterinary Hospital, reflects on its involvement in the program since the very

Submitted by Kathi Gruss, DVMEarlysville Animal Hospital, Earlysville, VA Our practice focused on meeting the behavioral needs of our patients for over 20 years. We found great behavior resources for dogs with the help of an associate who trained in behavior in Australia. We already work in a quiet environment with soft music and use minimal restraint, kind

Submitted by Judy Ling, RVTRoyal York Animal Hospital, Etobicoke, Canada We are a small animal practice for dogs and cats, and we always saw more canines than felines. We knew that something had to be done to attract our feline patients. A lot of our clients had dogs and cats in the household and when we

New CFP Toolkit Additions New marketing tools have been added to our online CFP Toolkit for your exclusive use! We have three new options for carrier labels/stickers that you can affix to cat carriers during your patient visits. In our anniversary package, we included several sheets of these stickers for your use and we have

We are excited to celebrate 10 years of Cat Friendly Practice® (CFP) and share some of our planned celebration activities with you. We invite you to join us in these activities and take advantage of the new materials and celebrations being planned to recognize your achievement in providing the best standards of care for cats.

Submitted by Robin Downing, DVM, MS, Doctor of Bioethics, DAAPM, DACVSMRWindsor Veterinary Clinic PC, Windsor, CO We were delighted to learn of the Cat Friendly Practice® initiative by the AAFP. My first practice was a house call practice in which I learned how to work with cats versus struggling against them to provide veterinary care.  Nearly

The AAFP is proud to announce the endorsements by CATalyst Council and the Association of Shelter Veterinarians of the Cat Friendly Practice® (CFP) Program.