All alone this time, I went to my second hands-on practical. This one was at the wonderful Oregon Humane Society in Portland. This place is amazing! Clean, HUGE, tons of community interaction and even an on-site vet clinic! Our class was small, which is always good for these things, and full of dedicated students. We got to massage the dogs right in the kennels! Which was a bit of a challenge for me - not being the smallest of people, it was quite the squeeze! But I'm happy to say almost every dog the students massaged was adopted! Happy dogs are just more appealing, relaxed and adoptable! This class had lots of intense and lengthy techniques like manual lymphatic drainage. We also had a few
To be certified in Washington, I needed to take at least two courses with NWSAM. My feeling is that since this is such a new practice in my area, the most types of clients I was going to get would be senior or suffering animals so I signed up right away for the Level 300 course - Rehabilitation. This couse was far more intense than the first. Tons of medical information - which surprised me a bit since we are NOT vets and don't do any diagnosing at all. But the techniques I learned and could put to practice would be beneficial for all the animals. I studied way more for this practical than the first and was all set to take my next hand's on training - in Portland Oregon and their Humane Soci
