August 6, 2011
Thanks to all who joined us for Dr Chris Zink's fabulous Canine Athelete's Academy! This event raised $5,800 for CHE. Our thanks to Chris for donating her time, to Betsy Scappichio for donating her beautiful facility, to all those who attended this wonderful workshop so they could learn how to care for their performance dogs, to Deb D'Elia and Debbie Cuiffo for organizing the event, and to all the silent auction donors!
Chris Zink, D.V.M., Ph.D., is a consultant on canine sports medicine, evaluating canine structure and locomotion, and designing individualized retraining and conditioning programs for canine athletes. She is the award-winning author of Peak Performance: Coaching the Canine Athlete, Dog Health and Nutrition for Dummies, and The Agility Advantage, and co-author of Jumping from A to Z: Teach Your Dog to Soar and Building the Canine Athlete: Strength, Stretching, Endurance & Body Awareness Exercises. She has obtained more than 70 obedience, agility, retrieving, tracking, and conformation titles on dogs from the sporting, herding, working, terrier, and hound groups.This seminar covered:
Keeping your Canine Athlete at Peak
- Body work for your teammate
- Fitness – it’s easy!
- Balancing strength, endurance, body awareness and stretching exercises
- Nutrition tips for the canine athlete
- Common athletic injuries your vet might not know about
- How to recognize them and get the best treatment
- Complementary and alternative therapies for healing and improving performance
- Canine rehabilitation – what it is and how to do some of it yourself
