22 May 2025
MPS protective wear are Fear Free® Preferred Products!
Veterinarian recommended, pet approved, and part of the Fear Free® Preferred Product Program
At Medical Pet Shirts (MPS), we believe recovery should feel as safe and comfortable as possible for your pet. Healing is not only about protecting a wound, it is also about helping pets feel calm, secure, and supported during a vulnerable time.
That is why MPS is part of the Fear Free® Preferred Product Program, a community dedicated to reducing fear, anxiety, and stress in animals. This means our protective pet clothing aligns with Fear Free principles that focus on your pet’s emotional wellbeing, both at the veterinary clinic and at home.
The Fear Free Preferred Product Program helps connect veterinarians with products that support calmer, gentler care. These products are selected because they can help create a more relaxed environment and make recovery less stressful for pets. When your veterinarian chooses an MPS product, it is with the goal of helping your pet heal in a way that feels more natural and reassuring.
By allowing pets to move, rest, and stay close to their owners while being protected, MPS recovery wear supports a smoother recovery experience, with less frustration and more comfort for your pet.
Together with Fear Free®, we aim to make recovery a more positive experience for pets and their owners. Stay tuned to learn more about how Fear Free principles support your pet’s wellbeing and how MPS fits into a calmer, kinder approach to healing.
About the Fear Free® initiative
Since 2016, the wonderful team at Fear Free offers online education, behavior-led strategies, and methods to veterinary, pet professionals, animal welfare communities, and pet owners, to prevent and relieve fear, anxiety, and stress (FAS) in animals. Through education and certification Fear Free® helps create calmer, more compassionate care experiences in clinics, homes, shelters, and beyond.
What Fear Free means for your veterinary practice
Veterinary professionals know that many patients already arrive at the clinic on edge.They may experience pain, or an uneasy condition. Top that off with new smells, bright lights, transport stress, and unfamiliar handling and pets may shut down and struggle. By integrating Fear Free methods and products into daily workflows, a practice can:
transform stressful visits into calmer, more predictable experiences
support safer handling for veterinarians and vet tech teams
improve the quality of diagnostics and treatment
leave owners with a positive, trust-building impression of the clinic
For clinics that want to stand out as truly pet-friendly, Fear Free is no longer a “nice to have” it has become an expectation for many modern pet owners. According to the APPA National Pet Owners Survey, preferred visits to pet-friendly places are on the rise, especially among younger pet owners.
Today’s pet owners look beyond medical expertise alone. They actively search for pet-friendly clinics that take emotional wellbeing seriously.
How MPS Recovery Wear supports Fear Free® principles
Our recovery wear has always been developed with anatomy, daily habits and routines and stress reduction in mind. Long before joining the Fear Free Preferred Product Program, our design philosophy closely matched Fear Free® principles. Instead of rigid, or hard-edged equipment, our products use:
Soft, breathable cotton and stretch fabric that move with the animal and offer airflow for wound healing, while directly protecting the area.
Ergonomic fits that support natural posture, resting, walking and grooming behavior
Secure, yet gentle closures that avoid pressure points and make low-stress handling easier for check-ups.
Allows calm, close animal-human bonding with gentle touch and positive reinforcement, helping the animal feel secure.
These features help limit licking or biting of wounds while reducing frustration and confusion in the animal. This makes our products a valuable tool for any veterinary clinic concerned with reducing stress. And for Fear Free members, we offer a special discount to help you make your practice even more animal-friendly and fully aligned with Fear Free principles.
Why stress-free recovery matters
Anxious pets heal slower and this anxiety can leave a lasting trauma. For vets these animals are also harder to examine since they are more likely to resist treatment, and less able to rest after surgery. Elevated FAS can influence vital signs, mask pain, or complicate postoperative monitoring. It can even affect how owners perceive the success of a procedure. MPS recovery wear offers postoperative comfort for pets by combining wound protection with emotional support. It helps patients and the entire team feel secure and confident in the healing.
A pet that feels protected and comfortable is more likely to:
heal faster and calmer
accept gentle examination
rest properly in the recovery room or at home
eat and drink normally
Low-stress veterinary tools for the whole team
Fear Free is not only about the patient, it also supports the well-being of the veterinary team. Veterinarians, vet techs, and assistants all benefit when animals can be handled calmly with the help of the right tools.
For vet techs, our solutions make it easier to perform bandage checks, wound inspection, or re-examinations without removing and reapplying equipment multiple times. For veterinarians, it means fewer struggles, and less risk of escalation.
The result is a more efficient clinic workflow, fewer stressful moments, and a workplace that feels safer and more sustainable for everyone.
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As a thank you to the Fear Free community, we offer free logo and name printing on your first 5 orders as a Fear Free certified professional or practice!
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