Monday 1st October

Full Day Workshop with
Catherine O'Driscoll
Canine Health Concern

Catherine O’Driscoll is the founder of Canine Health Concern, a non-profit animal welfare organisation that spearheads research into the causes of health and ill health in our canine friends.  Catherine has been at the forefront of the natural rearing movement since its emergence in the early 90s, promoting biologically appropriate food for dogs, and researching the science to reduce vaccine load and vaccine-associated disease in dogs. 

Catherine is the author of the seminal best-selling books, ‘What Vets Don’t Tell You About Vaccines’, and ‘Shock to the System’, and the award-winning film ‘In Search of the Truth About Dogs’.  Her other titles include ‘The Golden Retriever Companion, a Chronicle of Joy’, and the new and groundbreaking book, ‘The Animals’ Agenda’. 

She has lectured on canine health throughout Europe and North America, delivers the Foundation in Canine Healthcare course which is listed under the Kennel Club’s KCAI scheme and writes for Dogs Naturally magazine in North America, and Dogs Today in the UK.  

Morning

  • In Search of the Truth About Dogs - an award-winning DVD about natural canine healthcare

  • How canine diet affects physical health and behaviour

  • Biologically appropriate food … the foundation of health and wellbeing; the functions of nutrients and their therapeutic uses

  • The vaccine issue: latest science on vaccine frequency

  •  Vaccine-associated disease – the science

 

Afternoon

  • The human-animal bond

  • Human dysfunctionality: stress

  • How dogs mirror their owners and act-out their owners’ emotions

  • Emotional Freedom Technique – an introduction

  • Demonstration and audience participation

  • Bringing it all together