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Behavioural Management – Avoidance

Behavioural Management – Avoidance

Bad Behaviour A pet’s behaviour is an outward expression of their underlying emotional motivations and is strongly influenced by learning. Pets with behavioural problems display inappropriate behaviours [eg barking, aggression or escape or destructive behaviour] in response to trigger stimuli eg certain events, places, people, pets, noises or objects. The stimuli are considered innocuous so […]

Anxiety and the Whispered Reward

Anxiety and the Whispered Reward

When Anxiety Attacks! Most of the owners of the behavioural cases we see want both the problem behaviour to stop happening and their pet to be “happier”. They realise that their pet is rarely relaxed or comfortable and that this is affecting their pets’ behaviour. Anxiety disorders are the most common cause of behavioural problems […]