Wow, that’s really cool! What else did they go over in the class? As an EMT, I have to have a certain number of “continuing education units” every so often to maintain my certification, and I’ve always wondered if animal first-aid courses counted. I should really find out…I think it would be really nice to know how to help out animals as well as people .

Cool!
Actually that’s exactly what this guyd did…He’s a fireman-he actually set up the program, and coordinated with the red cross to use their books and cds’ (we got to keep a book and cd to take home!!) so all the proceeds go to the humane society and he volunteers teaching the course about once a month.

The topics were burns, electorcution, highrise syndrome (falling from balconies), car trauma, gunshot wounds, broken limbs, cpr-which was cool because that’s what I wanted to know-how to give chest compressions to animals, shock, ABC’s, what to have in pet first aid kits, choocking, allergic reactions…I think that’s it. There is even more covered in the book and on the cd. We also got a pamphlet that had Canadian numbers (for poison control and e-vets that are local) because the material is american (though you can call the american poison control)

Do they have a website with a PDF of information you could link us to?

Well the humane society doesn’t post anything except the course sign up http://www.edmontonhumanesociety.com

But the course material is from the red cross..
This is the book with the dvd-you can order it
http://www.redcrossstore.org/Shopper/Product.aspx?UniqueItemId=95
There is also a cat one-between the cat and dog you can figure out what applies. IE chest compressions would be the same technique from cat to bunny. I mean the basic idea of chest compression is the same for anything, but the technique would be very similar.

And I think you can read more here
http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.1a019a978f421296e81ec89e43181aa0/?vgnextoid=6317f46306b5b110VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD