Nearly half your patients are seniors. This is their event.
Delivering better geriatric care: one Sunday with board-certified specialists and the leading voices in senior pet care. 12 hours of RACE-Approved CE across two channels; earn up to 6 hours. No flights, no hotel, no days out of the clinic.
The senior caseload is already yours. The training never was.
of pets in this country are age 7 or older. That's 72 million senior patients, and they're not in specialty clinics. They're in general practice, in your exam rooms, every day.
of senior pets receive recommended health screening, and the most common reason isn't an unwilling client. It's the absence of a clear recommendation from the veterinary team.
of cats and dogs hadn't seen a veterinarian in the 18 months before euthanasia. Patients who slipped out of care during the exact window when medicine had the most to offer them.
Closing that gap is the whole point of this day. Earlier recognition of pain, CDS, and comorbidities. Better treatment plans that families actually follow. Longer, more comfortable lives for the patients. And for your practice, finally capturing the full value of senior care rather than just a fraction of it. Better senior care is better medicine, and it's finally sustainable to deliver.
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CE that doesn't cost you a weekend, a flight, and a hotel.
Every veterinary professional knows the real price of conference CE. It's not the registration. It's the flights, the hotel nights, the days of lost production, and the weekend away from your family. Senior Pet Con removes every one of those line items.
- $129 early bird pricing ($149 regular). Less than most conferences charge before you've booked a single flight.
- Zero travel. Attend from home or the clinic.
- Zero missed clinic days. It's a Sunday.
- Up to 6 RACE-Approved CE hours toward your annual requirement, from 12 hours of programming.
- Group rates for your whole team, any size. Email support@lovebaxter.com for group rates.
One day, at home, with your own dog or cat probably asleep next to you. That's the whole cost.
Veterinary professional track
RACE-Approved CE built entirely around the senior patient.
These cases are sitting in your waiting room right now. This content is clinical, focused, and immediately applicable to your practice.
✓ RACE-Approved Continuing Education · 12 CE HoursCognitive Dysfunction Syndrome
Screening, staging, and current management options for CDS, and how to counsel families who noticed something was off long before anyone named it.
Chronic Pain, Managed for Real Life
Ketamine beyond the CRI, multimodal protocols for general practice, and pain plans that survive contact with real clients between rechecks.
Gait Analysis: What Are You Actually Seeing?
Orthopedic, neurologic, or both? Breaking down gait in the exam room and on client videos, with board-certified neurology insight.
Complicated Senior Cats
CKD, hyperthyroidism, arthritis, and dental disease in the same patient. Prioritizing diagnostics and treatment when diseases compete.
Senior Emergencies in General Practice
Stabilization priorities when comorbidities change the calculus, and guiding families through urgent decisions they never expected that day.
End of Life, Done Right
Evidence-based quality of life assessment, peaceful euthanasia protocols, and the client conversations families never forget.
Plus: the Senior Pet Care Playbook for your whole team, the senior dental decision, and the closing Pet, Vet, Aftercare Roundtable.
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The full schedule.
Delivering better geriatric care: a full day of practical education to help you improve care for senior patients. Move between channels freely.
Science with Heart: Healthy Aging and the Human-Animal Bond
We kick off the day together. Opening remarks from Senior Pet Con co-founders Dr. Monica Tarantino, DVM and Adam Greenbaum, followed by Steven Feldman, President of the Human Animal Bond Research Institute, and Lauren Johnson, DVM, Senior Manager of Field Veterinary Services at Virbac. Presented by our Presenting Sponsor, Virbac.
Dr. Monica Tarantino, DVM · Adam Greenbaum · Steven Feldman, HABRI · Lauren Johnson, DVM, Virbac
Managing Senior Pet Emergencies in General Practice
Senior patients present emergencies differently, and comorbidities change the calculus. Stabilization priorities, decision-making when the prognosis is guarded, and guiding families through urgent choices they never expected to make that day.
Dr. Brianna Tobin, DVM
Creating a Peaceful Euthanasia in General Practice
A peaceful euthanasia is one of the most important things a practice ever provides, and it's built on details: sedation protocols, setting and pacing, preparing the family, and the small choices that shape what they carry with them afterward.
Dr. John Murray, DVM
Gait Analysis in Senior Dogs: What Are You Actually Seeing?
Is it orthopedic, neurologic, or both? How to break down a gait in the exam room and on client videos, the findings that separate pain from weakness from ataxia, and when the answer changes the workup.
Dr. Natasha Olby, VetMB, PhD, DACVIM (Neurology), MRCVS
Transforming Palliative Care: Practical Tools to Avoid Common Pitfalls for All Patients
“How will I know?” deserves a better answer than a gut feeling. Validated quality-of-life assessment tools for dogs and cats, how to use them in practice, and how objective tracking gives families clarity during the hardest stretch of care.
Dr. Christina Guttuso, DVM
Complicated Cats: Management of Common Comorbidities
Senior cats rarely bring you one problem. CKD, hyperthyroidism, arthritis, and dental disease often show up together. How to prioritize diagnostics and treatment when diseases compete, and build a plan the cat and the client can live with.
Dr. Petra Cerna, DVM, DACVIM (SAIM), MANZCVS
The Conversations Clients Never Forget
Families forget most of what happens in the exam room. They never forget how the hard conversations felt. What senior pet families remember, the moments that build lifelong loyalty, and the small communication choices that carry the most weight.
Adam Greenbaum
Senior Pet Care Playbook for Veterinary Clinics
Most practices see senior patients every day but don't have a defined protocol for them. A practical senior care playbook: screening schedules, senior-specific visits, and a repeatable structure your whole team can run.
Dr. Monica Tarantino, DVM
Crusty Conversations: The Art of Talking About Aging Pets
Senior care communication starts at the first phone call. How the whole team, from front desk to discharge, talks about aging patients: framing senior visits, discussing costs without eroding trust, and keeping families engaged in long-term care.
Dr. Molly Brinkmann, DVM
The Ketamine Era: Multimodal Pain Management for Senior Dogs
Ketamine has a bigger role in chronic pain management than most GP settings use it for. Where it fits in a multimodal plan for senior patients, practical protocols for general practice, and the cases where it changes what's possible.
Dr. Katie Bennett, DVM, DACVAA
Introduction to Senior Dog Dentistry
Dental disease is one of the most common and most undertreated problems in senior patients, often because everyone's nervous about anesthesia. How to assess risk honestly, when treatment is worth it, and how to talk families through the decision.
Dr. Amy Thomson, DVM, DAVDC
Chronic Pain Plans That Actually Work in Practice
A perfect pain plan the client can't follow isn't a plan. Multimodal chronic pain protocols that withstand real-world contact: drug choices, rechecks that actually happen, and communication that keeps patients on their plan between visits.
Dr. Tannetje Crocker, DVM
Updates in Canine Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome
CDS is underdiagnosed, and families usually notice something is off long before anyone names it. Screening and staging in practice, evidence-based management options, and counseling families about what's ahead.
Dr. Monica Tarantino, DVM
Pet, Vet & Aftercare Roundtable
Three seats at the same appointment. What each of us sees, and what we would change. A pet parent, a veterinarian, and an aftercare leader take on the same four questions, share the data behind them, and each leave you with one change to start Monday. Open to pet parents and veterinary professionals together.
Adam Greenbaum · Dr. Monica Tarantino, DVM · Lucinda Newcomb, Chief Customer Officer, Gateway
Thank you for caring for them
Your senior patients deserve this. So do you.
- Senior patients are nearly half your caseload. This is one Sunday of CE built entirely around them, from home, with no travel costs and no missed clinic days.
- 12 total hours of RACE-Approved CE, earn up to 6 depending on your track
- Two channels: Clinical Medicine and Geriatric Care
- Board-certified specialists in neurology, anesthesia and analgesia, internal medicine, and dentistry
- Chronic pain, gait analysis, senior cat comorbidities, and geriatric emergencies
- Quality of life assessment, peaceful euthanasia, and client conversations you can use Monday morning
- The closing Pet, Vet, Aftercare Roundtable, open to both audiences
- Can't attend live? Add 6-month replay access for $30 at checkout · Group rates for clinic teams, email support@lovebaxter.com
Common questions
Everything you're wondering, answered.
How much CE credit can I earn?
Is this just for veterinarians?
When does the day start?
Is this really 100% virtual?
What if I can't attend live?
How do group rates for clinic teams work?
Do vets and pet parents attend together?
Two brands. One shared mission.
Get to know the brands behind the event.
Senior Pet Con is a joint production of Love, Baxter and the Senior Dog Veterinary Society: two organizations built with the same belief that senior pets and the people who love them deserve more.
Love, Baxter is committed to building the world's most helpful resource for pet end-of-life, senior pet care, euthanasia support, aftercare, and grief. Not as a brand story. As a real response to a loss that changed a family.
- End-of-life education and resources
- Euthanasia decision support
- Aftercare guidance and planning
- Pet grief support and community
- Senior pet care and wellness content
The Senior Dog Veterinary Society exists to enhance the care of senior and geriatric canine patients by supporting the veterinary professionals who treat them, and through the Senior Dog Revolution, to change how senior dogs are perceived everywhere.
- Geriatric canine clinical education
- Support for veterinary professionals
- The Senior Dog Revolution
- RACE-approved continuing education
- Client communication resources