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How to work with donkey feet and handling issues

How to work with donkey feet and handling issues

With Ben Hart, Senior Lead in Behaviour and Human Behaviour Change

Introduction

Introduction

The Donkey Sanctuary has an ambition to help improve the lives of donkeys and mules around the world, by providing relevant up-to-date resources on donkey care, welfare, behaviour, nutrition and veterinary topics. These recordings of live webinars are created to help owners, handlers, carers and the employees of organisations across the world find the information they need to improve the lives of their donkeys.

This webinar recording explores why feet handling is such a common issue for donkeys.

Webinar details

Explore why your donkey may have an issue with their feet being handled and what you can do about it safely without pain, force and fear. After this webinar you will be able to:

  • Recall how the true nature of the donkey influences foot issues
  • Produce a list of possible causes
  • Recognise how far back you have to start with the problem
  • Explain the importance of correctly stretching the comfort zone and shaping
  • Able to stay safe
  • Have enough information, ideas , structure and confidence to safely improve you animals foot handling issues.

Running time: 1 hour

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More information section

More information

Are you looking for advice on donkey behaviour? Contact our behaviour team.

If you need clinical and dental veterinary advice contact our veterinary team

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  • Webinar
  • Owners
  • Behaviour
  • Hoof Care
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