Mikkel Becker offers some tips to avoid injury while handling, lifting, restraining and caring for large and giant-sized canines. She says to consider the following strategies:
- Avoid the wrestling match.
- Evaluate your default.
- Dig for the root.
- Do your future self a favor.
- Replace restraint.
- Pharmaceuticals could be your friend.
- Treat yo’ patient.
- Mitigate muzzle woes
- Stop slip-n-scare scenarios.
- Elevate your exam and treatment area experience.
- Think outside the clinic box.
Source: Firstline, May 4, 2018. Link.
“Begin with the end in mind.” Because while many of the traditional handling methods can achieve the immediate goal of getting care done that day, they can also come with great costs to both the pet and the veterinary team now and in the future.