359: Pet Behavior and Honing Your Pet First Aid Skills with Arden Moore

What does it mean to understand animal behavior? As pet care professionals, we need to make sure we are communicating well to our clients and are prepared for emergencies. Arden Moore, author and radio host, joins the show to discuss confounding behaviors for both dogs and cats. She also dives into how to make sure we have a great first aid kit and how emergency preparedness is all a mental game. Arden gives her best tips for pilling cats and discusses the importance of being a poop-ologist.

Main topics:

• Confounding behaviors
• Mental game of preparedness
• Misconceptions of first aid
• Pilling Cats

Main takeaway: We can't prepare for everything, but attention to detail, and the right resources, will set you up for success.

About our guest:

Arden grew up in a Brady Bunch-like family in a town called Crown Point located near Chicago in Northwest Indiana.

During her first year in high school, she cajoled the editor of the local weekly newspaper into hiring her to be a sports writer. As a corn-fed Hoosier, she valued her Midwest roots, but knew she needed to experience other places. Her insatiable curiosity led to spending the next 20 years chasing stories as a reporter and editor for daily newspapers in Indiana and Florida. This is where Arden honed her amazing interviewing and writing skills!

From there, she entered the publishing world at the family-owned Rodale Press. At Rodale, her "day job" was senior health writer for the book division, but she also moonlighted as a writer for their new magazine called Pets: Part of the Family.

That is where Arden realized that she could tap her love of writing and interviewing to help people become healthier, and to tout the power of her other lifelong passion, pets. Pets and people — that's what Arden is all about.

Fast forward to today, and Arden has done just that, in her trademark edu-taining style. Today, Arden happily shares her home in Dallas with her wife, Julie, and their furry Brady Bunch of three cats, three dogs and an overworked vacuum cleaner.

Links:

Previously: https://www.petsitterconfessional.com/episodes/240

www.ardenmoore.com

www.petfirstaid4u.com

www.propethero.com

Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ardenmoore352

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Cat Behavior: https://amzn.to/3POdgGq

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https://www.fearfreehappyhomes.com

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