FELINE BEHAVIOUR – CLINICAL CHALLENGES, SOLUTIONS AND PREVENTION

This exciting 2-day course focuses on the cat’s physical, emotional, and cognitive health and the challenges of managing this in your vet clinic. A thorough update on prevention, management, and treatment approaches to common feline behavioural problems such as house soiling inter-cat conflicts and over grooming is presented and discussed. The influence of basic natural feline behaviour on the social and physical environmental needs of cats will be outlined and practical ways of optimising the feline environment at home and in veterinary practice will be discussed.

LECTURER

Sarah Heath BVSc PgCertVE DipECAWBM(BM) CCAB FHEA FRCVS RCVS Veterinary Specialist in Behavioural Medicine EBVS ® European Veterinary Specialist in Behavioural Medicine
Visiting Lecturer in Small Animal Behavioural Medicine, University of Liverpool School of Veterinary Science.
Sarah Heath has in her referral clinic specialised in the interplay between emotional and physical illness in dogs and cats for over 30 years.

Udvidet beskrivelse

COURSE CONTENT

Natural feline behaviour and its impact on social and environmental needs

The interplay between physical, emotional, and cognitive health in cats

Preparing the kitten for life in a domestic environment

Optimising the feline home and your clinic environment

Interacting with cats with their emotional health in mind

Common behavioural problems: Investigation, management, and treatment

Language: English

CPD points: 12

THEORY/PRACTICAL