From thunderstorms and car trips to vet visits, visitors at home or even just a walk to the park, situational stress can significantly impact a pet’s wellbeing. Many animals with mental illness struggle with everyday situations. In the long term, their baseline medications will help them, but what about now? Short acting, supportive medications can help them cope. Knowing how and when to use supportive medications can make all the difference.
You’ve diagnosed the case and started treatment—but how do you know the treatment is actually working?
Behaviour cases rarely follow a straight line and knowing when to stay the course or make a change can be challenging. In this final session, our specialist veterinary behaviourists will guide you through how to effectively monitor progress and confidently adjust treatment plans.
Selecting the right baseline medication for behavioural cases can feel complex, with multiple options, varying responses, and client expectations to manage. In this practical session, Kersti will walk you through a tiered approach to prescribing—helping you choose the best options for medication with more confidence.
One of the biggest problems with diagnosing and treating behaviour problems is working out if a behaviour is normal or a sign of a mental illness. It’s not easy as many normal behaviours can be annoying. So how do you identify who needs education and who needs a bit more help? Drawing on extensive experience in Veterinary Behavioural Medicine, we will discuss in detail how to distinguish signs of a mental illness from normal behaviour
Explore how relational prescribing can transform veterinary behaviour cases. Join Dr Findy Wills to integrate medication with relationship-centred care.
This webinar will discuss how you can educate cat owners to recognise that their kitty is anxious and then how to manage the problem. Recognising a cat’s needs is the first step in helping cats live in their busy environment. Knowing which treatment options are available and what to use when is important to help fearful and anxious cats to live a happier and healthier life.
This webinar will cover some of the most common behaviour problems presented to veterinarians. It will discuss diagnosis and treatment using the 4 M approach, behaviour modification, environmental management as well as which medications may be helpful and how to monitor progress for best results.
As veterinarians become more familiar with behavioural medicine they reach for medications more for pets with behavioural issues such as anxiety and reactivity. This has meant that clonidine usage has increased.
This webinar will cover why clonidine can be useful, how to use it, when to use, where it may be useful and why.
