Capturing and handling non-captive wild animals (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians) can sometimes involve risks for the animal. The aim of this training course is to provide a better understanding of these risks, how to prevent them, and first aid techniques for managing them. The aim is to fine-tune the capture and restraint phases to ensure animal welfare.
Who is this course for?
Target audience
- Animal Facility Staff, Animal Facility Manager, Project designers
Prerequisites
- Knowing the regulatory context for first aid adapted to wildlife
- Anticipate first aid needs and equipment appropriate to your practice
- Knowing how to protocol triage and identify limit points in anticipation of incidents
- Recognising and managing common problems caused by the capture of wild animals
- Understand and apply the principles of superficial wound management
- Anticipating and choosing euthanasia methods
- Risks of incidents inherent in the capture and handling of non-captive wild animals (small and large mammals, small and large birds, reptiles, amphibians)
- Anticipating and managing these risks
- Refinement of techniques, limit points
- First aid for injured animals
- What happens to injured animals
- Case studies, feedback from participants
- Practical work: suture techniques
- Theoretical contributions
- Participatory exercises
- Practical suture exercises on substitutes
- Teaching support sent by e-mail
Assessment of knowledge in the form of a questionnaire leading to a training certificate
- Sessions on the agenda: 470 EXCLUDING VAT / participant
- Other: on request
- Disabled access: Adaptation to your needs on request
- Admission procedure : Entry questionnaire
On-site