Behavior Problems of the Dog and Cat 4th Edition - May 2, 2023

Your Practical Guide to Canine and Feline Behavior Problems, 4th Edition

This book retains the highly practical approach that has proved so successful in previous editions, offering diagnostic and treatment guidelines, preventive advice, case examples, and client forms and handouts. This book provides a comprehensive guide to behavior problems in dogs and cats, with details on the use of drugs and natural supplements to help optimize the behavior services offered in practice.

Key Features

• Step-by-Step Guidelines: Provides step-by-step guidelines on how to collect a patient history, perform a thorough physical examination, conduct diagnostic testing, formulate differential diagnoses, select treatment, and monitor the patients’ responses.
• Behavior Modification Techniques: Covers behavior modification techniques, providing a clear understanding of suggested treatment as well as the use of drugs, pheromones, surgery, diet, and alternative therapies.
• Behavioral Genetics: It explores the rapidly growing and advancing field of behavioral genetics and includes new therapeutic approaches for cognitive decline.
• New Topics: Many hot new topics are covered, including fear, anxiety, and stress, and their effects on health and behavior, as well as pain and behavior, the psychobiological approach to veterinary behavior assessment, and pets and the family dynamic.
• Updated Content: Updated chapter content is extensively augmented or completely rewritten by new authors, making this more than just a new edition—it’s a new book!
• Enhanced eBook: The eBook version, included with print purchase, allows access to all of the text, figures, and references. Online access also includes handouts and forms, drug dosing, and a comprehensive directory of resources.
• Easy Access: Easy-access treatment tables provide at-a-glance solutions to common behavior problems, and useful appendices include treatment protocols and drug information.