
Pet loss courses for pet professionals
We help veterinary professionals and pet service providers with the skills to support grieving pet owners.
We’ve developed our accredited and award-winning Continual Professional Development (CPD) training courses, workshop days and webinars to help you and your team learn techniques to confidently support those that have lost a pet.
Training available
- Pet loss training day for veterinary professionals
- Equine bereavement support training workshop
- Accredited pet loss support CPD course
- Refresher pet loss support CPD course
- Introduction to pet loss support skills
- Bespoke training
- Live/virtual workshops
Our training can improve client experience and retention while supporting your team’s emotional wellbeing and avoiding compassion fatigue. For veterinary professionals, it’s an RCVS Practice Standards Scheme optional award requirement, which contributes to the Client Service Award.
Unlike other providers, money raised from our courses goes directly back into our charity. This means you can help us care for more sick, injured and homeless pets while developing your pet loss support skills.
Pet loss training day for veterinary professionals, South or North – 2025
This in-person training day will provide you with a compassionate approach to supporting your clients through pet loss and end of life. The session will provide you with:
- a greater understanding of your clients’ emotional journey
- the tools you need to support your clients during a highly emotive and challenging time
- ideas on how you can effectively help your clients cope with the death or foreseen loss of their pet
- a networking opportunity within your profession and a chance share common experiences
Cost: £105
South West
When: 8 May 2025, 9.30am – 4.00pm
Where: Pynes Hill Business Centre, Pynes Hill, Exeter EX2 5JL
When: 2 October 2025, 9.30am – 4.00pm
Where: Pynes Hill Business Centre, Pynes Hill, Exeter EX2 5JL
South
When: 15 May 2025, 9.30am – 3.30pm
Where: Blue Cross, Shilton Road, Burford OX18 4PF
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North
When: 26 February 2025, 9.30am – 3.30pm
Where: Blue Cross, 48 Blackburn Street, Radcliffe, Manchester M26 1NQ
When: 24 September 2025, 9.30am – 3.30pm
Where: Blue Cross, 48 Blackburn Street, Radcliffe, Manchester M26 1NQ
London
When: 15 October 2025, 9.30am – 4.30pm
Where: Blue Cross Hospital, Sheppard House, Victoria, London SW1V 1QQ
Virtual live equine loss support training workshop
You and/or your teams are invited to join us for our Equine Loss Virtual Workshops, conveniently split into two parts: a two-hour learner-led online session, followed up by a three-hour trainer-led virtual workshop. We will provide you with an updated view on horse loss and grief in these current times and will equip you and your teams with the support tools needed to feel confident in providing the best possible service. The course will cover a wealth of topics such as, quality of life, euthanasia and self-care.
Cost: £105
When:
- 16 May 2025 at 9am
- 10 September 2025 at 11am
Accredited pet loss support CPD course
Our award-winning e-learning course is perfect for anyone wishing to enhance the care they can offer to bereaved pet owners. It's helpful for any professionals working with owners whose pets are facing rehoming, euthanasia or have died. It covers the following:
- pet loss experience
- self care
- emotional support skills
- stages of grief
- pet euthanasia
- remembrance and rituals
- grief in surviving pets
- the loss of assistance animals
This course requires a minimum of three hours study per week and counts towards 30 hours Continual Professional Development.
Please be aware that this is not a counselling qualification.
Course length: 10 weeks
Cost: £300
When:
- 13 January 2025
- 7 April 2025
- 30 June 2025
- 30 September 2025
The course was brilliant and I was able to fit it in between working and looking after children.
Refresher pet loss support CPD course
This refresher course provides you with four CPD hours and is designed for those who have already completed our accredited pet loss support course above.
It has been developed in line with the RCVS changes to CPD requirements that require CPD hours (35 for vets and 15 for vet nurses) to be annual, rather than spread across three years. This change is to ensure quality training remains ‘regular’ and ‘relevant’ at all times as per the RCVS standards charter.
This course can be booked at any time throughout the year to suit you. You will be asked to provide your NCFE certificate details prior to starting.
Course length: Four hours
Cost: £65
Introduction to pet loss support skills
This short course is an excellent introduction for front of house employees who have contact with bereaved owners but do not require an in depth knowledge.
The two hour course covers the following key areas:
- empathy vs sympathy
- communicating with active listening skills
- open questions
- face-to-face emotional support, telephone support, email support and other written communication
- how to support yourself, importance of self care and useful contacts
This course can be booked at any time throughout the year.
Course length: Two hours
Cost: £45
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Bespoke training
Alternatively, we offer bespoke pet loss support training specifically tailored to your business or organisation. This can be delivered at your place of work or through webinars.
For more information about these custom services, or to discuss your requirements, please call us on 01993 867216 or drop us an email at [email protected].
Live workshops
You are invited to join us for our virtual or face to face pet loss support training workshop.
This engaging five hour CPD training workshop, running on a number of dates, will equip you and your team with the tools to provide the best possible pet loss support. Covering a wealth of topics including:
- quality of life
- euthanasia
- self care
The day will also provide an excellent networking and knowledge sharing opportunity through a Q&A session and case study discussion.
Course length: Five hours
Cost: £105
Workshop dates
- 24 April 2025
- 17 July 2025
- 16 October 2025