BOOKS AND ARTICLES
for the veterinary team

BOOKS

  • In Home Pet Euthanasia Techniques, by Dr. Kathleen Cooney, for veterinarians, students, hospice providers, and technicians to help them gain comfort providing pet euthanasia in the home setting, including well described illustrations.

Reference guides


ARTICLES

Feeling better around end-of-life

Compassion fatigue

  • Euthanasia and the ‘Upside Down’ world it creates: Empathy is what makes us vulnerable to being profoundly affected and even possibly damaged by our work, by Jocelyn Anne Mason DVM. (October 8, 2020)

  • Download the CVMA suicide prevention sticker here for English or French.

  • dmv360: A summary of what Compassion Fatigue is, to help us understand why we sometimes feel so exhausted at the end of our workday. (May 1, 2015)

  • Compassion Fatigue Awareness Project: Compassion Fatigue is a state experienced by those helping people or animals in distress; it is an extreme state of tension and preoccupation with the suffering of those being helped to the degree that it can create a secondary traumatic stress for the helper.

Tips

Pets and Cancer

  • Oncowaf was created by Dr. Laetitia Cicchelero, a veterinarian with a PhD in oncology, for dog owners with questions about cancer.
    It offers an overview of clinical studies and reliable information in 5 languages.

Responsible pet burial

Understanding Grief