Behavior

A new series of questions for veterinary clients could shed a light on a particular dogs tendencies to get peeved when expectations are subverted.

Try these tips to manage situational fear, anxiety and stress in your canine veterinary patients.

Veterinary team members! Know cat owners who regularly suffer 4 a.m. wakeup calls of cat paws to the face? (Or are you that cat owner?) Well, rest easy. Solutions are out there.

Wield the benevolent brainwashing powers of classical conditioning and desensitization to both fix and prevent problem behaviors in your veterinary practice.

Conditioned responses (like the dog that panics at the sight of a syringe) can make treatment difficult, unpleasant or just plain impossible for both pet owners and veterinary professionals. Use this free training worksheet to develop and stick to a plan for fixing behavior problems in your practice.

Once thought to be the eccentric hobby of the crazy cat lady, animal hoarding is beginning to get the attention it deserves. Shelter medicine instructor and veterinarian Dr. Kirk Miller provides an overview of its effects on pets, people and shelters and explains why prosecution and prevention are so problematic.

Puppies and kittens who exhibit straight-up fear or wont investigate stimuli after being startled are outliers in need of treatment, says Fetch dvm360 conference speaker and veterinary behaviorist Dr. Lisa Radosta.

You and your veterinary clients both want the best for senior cats and dogs, but taking care of our older furry friends can be a challenge. Heres some advice.

This veterinary behaviorist says that while acepromazine may make patients more tractable in the clinic, its likely doing nothing to reduce their anxiety.

A look at cognitive decline in the aging canine brain, including physiologic changes, clinical signs, diagnostic difficulties and current treatment recommendations and challenges for both veterinarians and pet owners.

Some cage cards are straight forward. Some are a little more clever. Some are just downright hilarious. And we turned our favorite into a visual.

or at least made it sick? A recent study suggests that cats of neurotic owners are more likely to have negative behavior styles and poorer health.

Curious? Clearly. Aloof? Absolutely. Unintelligent? No way. A new study proves that your feline veterinary patients recognize their own name. Of course, thats no guarantee that theyll bother to acknowledge it.

There are lots of ways to know a dog is frightened, anxious or stressed, but theyre all useless if your veterinary client doesnt act as voice for their dog and say 'no' to the stressful person or situation. Share this handout with dog owners to help them trust their instinct for the right kind of dog training and the wrong kind of social encounters.

Preventing disease is a primary goal for general-practice veterinarians. It's time to better explain why they're important to pet owners, to make it easy as possible on pets and to help clients understand that vaccination is not as bad as they thinksay, with low-volume vaccines?

When you have fractious cats running amok in your veterinary clinic, whats the best way to restrain them? We have a few ideas.

Though a specialist or trainer may be necessary, you can take care of more than you think in-house.

Heres our regular rundown of new and notable veterinary products.

Instead of teaching an old dog new tricks, try learning some yourself! Here are a few things you can do to improve veterinary visits for aging pets.

Dr. Ilona Rodan protects the human-animal bond by having veterinary clients bring in floor plans of their homes.

National Dog Bite Prevention Week is coming up, and that means its time to think about your role in veterinary practice in keeping you and your team safe from frightened, biting dogs. Plus, resources to educate clients about preventing dog bites in the wider world.

Check out these fast fixes for behavioral problems in small animals.

Behavior specialist Anthony De Marinis shares actionable advice for veterinary teams and their clients when it comes to calming nervous patients.

Successful long-term management of Pandora syndrome involves treating the cat, the environment and, last but not least, the client.

People who possess higher levels of insecurity, fear, instability and intrusiveness have increased likelihood of being bitten by a dog, according to a U.K. study.

Help steer your veterinary clients in the right direction.

There are the legalities, and there are the emotions. How you can help your veterinary clients through this much-dreaded situation.

Take a look around the entire veterinary practice to see all the places you could be incorporating Fear Free techniques.

Heres our regular rundown of new and noteworthy veterinary products.

Though catnip may not attract all cats, this study examines the chemical geekery that results in a feline purr and point to future pharmaceuticals.