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Sport Therapy and Behavioral Services

42-22876790 Animal Care Center is equipped to provide a vast array of services to solve and remediate movement and behavioral issues from surgical intervention and post surgical rehabilitation services to hands on bodywork, and/or accupuncture.

Many movement issues are caused by what we would refer to as sub-clinical issues – issues that do not rise to the level of needing either medication or surgical intervention, but which nonetheless are interfering with the quality of life of your dog, or cat, and his or her ability to participate in leisure or sport activities. Muscle, ligament or tendon soreness or constriction will not necessarily show up on any tests, yet can drastically affect your dog or cat’s well being. In addition, many behavioral issues can be the result of sub-clinical issues of soreness, discomfort, or constriction. Animal Care Center has a vast array of services to address these needs.

Behavior

Physical

Sports/Working Dogs

Is your dog disobedient?
Has your dog's behavior changed?
Do you feel as if you never quite connect to this dog?
Is your dog always busy, never settling?
Do you have a dog who is exhibiting aggressive tendencies?
Do you have a dog that doesn't seem to be able to learn?
Do you have a dog who is intolerant of change or stresses easily?

Animal Care Center can help you.

Does your dog seem uncomfortable or cranky?
Does his movement look "not right"?
Do you have an aging dog you'd like to make more comfortable?
Would you like to enrich a young pup's physical and mental development?
Do you have a dog that seems to have six left feet or is prone to injury?
Would you like to help your dog's recovery from surgery, illness or trauma?

Animal Care Center has tools to
maximize health and well-being.

Do you have a dog in sports (e.g. flyball, agility, herding, hunting trials, or sledding) or conformation competition?
Do you have a working police, search and rescue, or therapy dog?
Would you like to maximize training or conditioning results?
Would you like to minimize athletic wear and tear?
Would you like to prolong your dog's working life as much as possible

Animal Care Center can help.

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Animal Care Center is equipped to help you unravel training and behavioral puzzles, and relieve discomfort, pain or restricted movement in dogs and cats.

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Marcia Lucas

After a 30-year career in nuclear physics, Marcia retired from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and turned full time to her life long passion for dogs. Since 2002, Marcia has been a part-time veterinary assistant at Animal Care Center. She is a certified practitioner of small animal accupressure, (acupuncture without needles) from the Tallgrass Animal Acupressure Institute having completed more than 270 hours of training. She has also completed the 40-hour course for Maryna Ozuna's Canine Kinaesthetics™ method of bodycare and 20 hours in Tui Na (Chinese meridian massage).

As an instructor with the Los Alamos Dog Obedience Club (Los Alamos, NM) Marcia has been teaching group classes and private lessons since 1990. www.naturaldogs.net. She competes with her dogs in obedience, tracking, and retriever hunt tests, and has trained dogs for search and rescue. Her current dog is training for mondioring, a fun sport that requires considerable athleticism, endurance, and physical conditioning.

Believing that sport dogs need the best nutrition possible, Marcia pursued lectures and courses in canine nutrition. Through those studies, Marcia met and began collaborating with world famous trainer Wendy Volhard, www.volhard.com, author of the Holistic Guide to a Healthy Dog, and the Dog Training for Dummies, now in it's 3rd edition, and developer of the Volhard Natural Diet, a raw diet program. www.handcraftcollars.com

Marcia is currently a nutrition consultant and one of the moderators of the Volhard Nutrition List, an internet discussion group.

Randi Latimer

Dr. Hilden

hildenmed Dr. Hilden is a Tucson native, 2001 University of Arizona graduate, and a 2005 graduate of the Colorado State University Veterinary School. She began her veterinary practice as an Emergency and Critical Care doctor at the Veterinary Specialty Center of Tucson. She then moved to Companion Animal Clinic in Tucson, where she focused on developing general practice and integrative medicine skills. From 2007 - 2009, she provided relief veterinary service to a variety of clinics including Animal Care Center.

Dr. Hilden is trained in integrative medicine modalities including acupuncture and herbal medicine. She is certified in acupuncture through the Medical Acupuncture for Veterinarians course offered through Colorado Veterinary Medical Association and has been trained in herbal therapies through Chi Institute of Chinese Medicine (www.tcvm.com). Dr. Hilden is a member of the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society (www.ivas.org)

Additional interests of Dr. Hilden include attending to the unique compassionate care needs of cats in the practice, pain management practices for all our patients, and acupuncture for the Canine Athlete.

Dr. Hilden has a special interest in dentistry as well and is a member of the American Veterinary Dental Society,

She shares her home with her partner, three dogs and two cats. In her time away from work she enjoys hiking, playing racquetball, and training for and competing in Olympic Distance triathlons.

Maryna Ozuna

maryna Maryna Ozuna is the founder of the Kinaesthetics™ system of body care for humans, horses, and dogs, www.dogbodycare.com and the owner and training director for Arizona Doggy Dude Ranch, www.azdoggyduderanch.com . For over 25 years, Maryna has been at the forefront of innovative strategies for a holistic approach to animal behavioral and physical care. She has helped pioneer the concept that physical issues can be at the root of behavioral problems, and worked to develop alternative training strategies to help foster more effective partnerships between humans and animals. She has worked with thousands of horses and dogs both in Europe and the United States from intimate consults on an aging canine companion, to World Championship equine competitors, to designing a complete sports therapy program for a 120 dog sleddog kennel.

Known for the accuracy and depth of her analysis of movement patterns in dogs and horses, Maryna has been deeply involved in the sports world from adolescence, coaching soccer at the age of 16; becaming the first female soccer referee and co-founding the first girls soccer league in New York State at 17. She later taught recreational skiing and horse back riding, and was an Instructor for T.R.O.T. (Therapeutic Riding of Tucson). For many years, she was deeply involved in the sport of endurance riding (long distance horse races) as competitor and crew, where she pioneered the introduction of concepts of sports therapy into the sports horse world..

Maryna holds a B.S.in Biology, and Russian from Vassar College; and a J.D. from Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Maryna is a member of the International Association of Canine Professionals, www.canineprofessionals.com and writes and teaches nationally.

Sport Therapy Services

valleyfever Shane, a 2 year old Labrador Retriever, clears the 1-meter hurdle at a Mondio Ring competition. Shane is a client a the Animal Care Center who was stricken with Valley Fever at 9 months of age. Weith the help of Dr. Dan he is now a thriving, athletic, healthy dog!
- Marcia Lucas, Owner of Natural Dog Training, Volhard Nutrition List Moderator

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