The journey to the veterinary clinic could involve stressful or exciting activity, elevating dogs', and owners', cortisol levels. Negative associations with previous visits experienced as unpleasant...
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...
The concepts, aims and goals of the PFP initiatives, texts and authors reflect a similar ethos: i.e. of building knowledge, understanding and care for the patient's ethology and its individual...
Sensory impairment, may it be visual or auditory, is likely to be present to some degree in the geriatric cat (Kerrigan, 2015). With this in mind, slow and gentle handling must be implemented....
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..
Compared with cats and dogs, rabbits are fragile. They have very powerful hind limb muscles, but their skeleton makes up a relatively low proportion of their bodyweight. In the home, this means that a...
Although domesticated for decades, rabbits' behaviour has changed little, and they are easily frightened, and quickly stressed. The effects of stress are significant and can lead to heart failure and...