Many veterinary nurses and veterinary surgeons are not confident in handling cats and recognising why they behave in the way that they do. Goins et al (2019) investigated the ability of veterinary...
A total of 390 registered veterinary nurses completed the questionnaire: 56% of respondents were in the 25–34 year age group, with 99% of the sample identifying as female. The majority of respondents...
To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to examine the owner perspective on factors associated with a dog's intolerance of being handled by veterinary professionals. Thus, the study...
Stress is an emotional and physiological response to change in an animal's environment (Mills et al, 2013). Such change is brought about by the presence of a ‘stressor’ which can be a stimulus that is...
Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning ‘to share’) can be defined as the process of sending a message from one individual to another with the purpose of modifying the behaviour of the...
The first step in the application of modern behavioural knowledge to handling in practice is understanding the drives for canine behaviour and how dogs use communication to avoid aggression..