Association Pet Behaviour Counsellors, Erw Wastad, Llwyn-teg, Llannon, Llanelli, Carms. SA14 8JW, UK
When it was first published in 2014, the original, comprehensive practical guide to canine behaviour quickly became a staple of many UK-based veterinary practices' libraries — filling an information...
Pheromones are biologically active semiochemicals (chemical signals from one organism to another capable of bringing about a change in the recipient organism); they are secreted from the body of one...
McMillan (2016) suggested that social animals that form strong relationships and are integrated most strongly into group living are most likely to survive, reproduce, and raise offspring to...
Having evolved as a territorial species that predated on rodents, but that was also predated on by larger carnivores (Bradshaw et al, 2012), the cat is effectively, constantly, asking itself ‘Am I...
It is not the intention of this article to explain the ethology of the dog, but some good books are available (Horwitz and Mills, 2009; Hedges, 2014), and these will assist staff in developing an...
Annually, more pets are euthanased, abandoned or rehomed for behavioural reasons than as a result of medical problems (Overall, 2013); and the majority of these animals are under 3 years of age. This...
The domestic cat is a territorial species, evolved from hunting rodents within a savannah environment in which rodents were scarce (Bradshaw et al, 2012). Yet, based on the requirements of modern...
