Description

What is the veterinary team's role in behavioural care? What are our responsibilities? How can we help caregivers provide the best welfare for their pets? Prevention is better than cure! What should we say, and how can we guide them? And what about when things haven't gone to plan - how can we help pets and caregivers now?

This lecture will explore all of this, looking at the veterinary team's role in augmenting behavioural health in patients, and in suppporting and educating stakeholders to maximise patients' behavioural health; as well as illustrating how vet practices can be the champions of welfare and the human-animal bond.

We will consider essential concepts related to prevention and management; useful preventative behavioural care, advice and education to offer caregivers; and strategies to promote successful lifelong relationships.

Learning Objectives

• Recognise common behavioural concerns which pose a welfare or safety risk
• Triage behavioural priorities, tailoring advice to help caregivers ASAP
• Consider behavioural and physical health equally, and their impact on each other
• Implement first line options to manage behaviour problems to maintain safety, welfare and the human-animal bond
• Understand when to refer to a behaviourist, and what to look for in a behaviourist