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You will have access for 2 years from the date of purchase. Closer to the expiration, you will receive an email invitation to pay a small fee for continued access for a set period.
Science moves on, and the consensus on how to approach cases evolves. Consequently, I will update course content periodically. If you have access to a course at the time I update it, you will automatically have access to the updated version. The most recent update was in July 2025. However, I cannot guarantee to update any course with every new finding or opinion, so if you have any questions on that front, please email me at [email protected]

Between March 2021 and June 2022 I presented several iterations of this topic with the title ‘Phantom Pregnancy - the silent killer’ for various behaviour and training organisations. These ranged from one to 2 hours in length. The current course, also titled ‘Phantom Pregnancy – the silent killer’, is a significant update on the earlier webinars at just over 3.5 hours long.
It includes an expanded section on differential diagnoses for behavioural change post-spay in the bitch, and discussion of contextualised care in the unspayed (entire/intact) bitch with an overt pseudopregnancy. There are also 3 embedded quizzes to assess your knowledge and understanding (25 Qs in all), totalling roughly 4 hours of CPD, at a minimum. It has been split into chapters and lessons ranging from 30 seconds to 10 minutes long (most are 6 minutes or less), allowing you to dip in or out as you wish, with ease.
You will have access for 2 years after purchase, at which point you will be invited to pay a small fee to retain access for another set period. I plan to update the course content periodically. If you have access to the course at the time I update it, you will automatically have access to the updated version. Bargain! You won’t be disappointed.

Science is science, so in that sense the courses are relevant worldwide. However, I am in the UK, and the aspects that cover legislation, veterinary responsibilities, welfare, and ethics are coloured by that. In addition, I discuss medicines licensed in the UK or used off-license (‘under the cascade’), and the availability of these medicines and their licensing and use may be different in your country.

By all means, ‘you can’, but the real question is ‘should you?’ If you are a dog trainer who is also a behaviourist, or studying to become one, then yes, I would recommend doing this course as it will help you across the board. If you are not also a behaviourist, I would recommend the other version that I am currently developing for pet owners/carers and dog trainers, as I will be including information in there relevant for those running classes or offering one-to-one services to pet owner/carers. If you are an owner/carer, I strongly advise doing the version for pet owner/carers and dog trainers, unless you are a dog geek at heart (like we professionals are) and want to be as informed as possible. Please enter your email address above to sign up for my mailing list, and I will notify you when that is ready (but it may be a few months yet).

Accessibility is important for inclusivity and to have the widest reach. That is one of the reasons I chose Thinkific as my learning management system, as I felt it best met these needs. Each video lesson features closed captions that you can enable. They are in (British) English only, so I can verify their accuracy. All text and graphics are unfussy, with plenty of white space and contrast.
As far as technical issues are concerned, I work alone and technology is not my area of expertise, so I would rather not be deluged with technical enquiries if it is at all avoidable (!). So if you encounter issues, first go to this troubleshooting page from Thinkific (https://support.thinkific.com/hc/en-us/articles/360030352674-Troubleshooting-Guide-for-Student-Issues). If the measures suggested there do not solve your problem, please email me at [email protected] and I will see what I can do to help.

No, to all the above.
You should not share your Thinkific sign-in or account information with anyone, and the video lessons are not downloadable.
In addition, all courses/presentations are my intellectual property and are protected by copyright (https://www.gov.uk/copyright). You must not share, lend, copy, adapt, perform, or distribute them, or any excerpt from them, in any medium (including electronic and print media), whether free of charge or for sale, without my written permission.
A downloadable PDF of the references and resources listed at the end of the course will be provided, as any references or resources are freely available on the internet anyway. That PDF may be downloaded for your use and shared with friends and colleagues, but only in the form of the shareable PDF provided, and in no other form; it must not be adapted in any way. I do not provide a PDF of all the slides as I do not want these ‘making the rounds’ without any audio to put them into context and explain the nuance.
I reserve the right to unenrol anyone from this course/presentation, and/or delete the account of anyone, found to be contravening the above, with immediate effect and without notification or refund.

Yes, absolutely. I process that manually (it can't be done through the website), and discounts are available depending on the size of the order. Please email me ([email protected]) to discuss your needs and for a quote.

Sorry, no. CPD (continuing professional development) and CE (continuing education) are terms used in different countries for the same thing – essentially, staying up to date in your chosen field and recording that for inspection by a professional body. In the UK, vets and vet nurses, and most behaviourists, are no longer required to collect attendance/completion certificates. We have moved to the reflective model of CPD, where a much wider range of activities count as CPD, and some of these have no attendance/completion certificates.

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