BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Behavioural Medicine 2nd edition is designed to be even more practical and user-friendly than the first.
For a range of behavioral presentations, consideration is given to:
- evaluation of the patient, including any possible underlying disease; evaluation of client attitudes, beliefs and behavior
- risk evaluation
- behavioral biology of the condition
- acute management protocols
- long-term treatment strategies
- prognosis
- follow-up
- preventive measures
A special chapter on shelter animals has been added, as this is an area where veterinary support is increasingly sought in both health and husbandry. An included CD offers client handouts, history-taking forms, detailed behavioral questionaires for each species and a referral form.
Contents
- Medical and metabolic influences on behavioural disorders
- Behavioural medicine as an integral part of veterinary practice
- Basic requirements for good behaviooural health and welfare in dogs
- Basic requirements for good behavioural health and welfare in cats
- Training and learning protocols
- Preventive behavioural medicine for dogs
Preventive behavioural medicine for cats
- Management problems in dogs
- Management problems in cats
- House soiling by dogs
- House soiling by cats
- Behaviour problems in the senior pet
- Stress in veterinary behavioural medicine
- Separation-related problems in dogs and cats
- Sound sensitivities
- Situational sensitivities
- Aggression toward familiar people and animals
- Aggression toward unfamiliar people and animals
- Aggression in cats
- Repetitive and compulsive behaviour in dogs and cats
- Pharmacology and pheromone therapy
- Complementary therapies
- Managing and rehoming the rescue dog and cat
Glossary
Appendixes
Index
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