Book description
Stress and Pheromonatherapy in Small Animal Clinical Behaviour
is about how stress impacts on animal behaviour and welfare and what
we can do about it, especially by using chemical signals more
effectively. This readily accessible text starts from first principles
and is useful to both academics and practitioners alike. It offers a
framework for understanding how pheromonatherapy can be used to
encourage desirable behaviour in dogs and cats and also a fresh
approach to understanding the nature of clinical animal behaviour problems.
The authors have pioneered the use of pheromone therapy within the
field of clinical animal behaviour. As the culmination of many years
of research and experience, they offer sound evidence-based advice on
how and when pheromones can be used most effectively.
The first part of the book deals with some fundamental concepts,
focusing on the key concepts of stress, communication and perception.
It then provides a framework for the evaluation of problem behaviour
to allow consideration of the possible role or not of
pheromonatherapy. Part 2 covers the application of these concepts to
a range of specific situations, concentrating on conditions in which
there has been most research to support the efficacy of pheromonatherapy.
Suitable for veterinarians in small animal practice, students of
clinical animal behaviour, veterinary nurses and technicians, as well
as specialists and researchers in animal behaviour therapy.
Daniel Mills is Professor of Veterinary Behavioural Medicine at
the University of Lincoln, UK and is a European and RCVS Recognised
Specialist in Veterinary Behavioural Medicine. He offers a referral
clinic for animals with behaviour problems, as well as providing
consultancy to a range of organisations in the animal care and science
industries. He has conducted extensive research in this field over
the last 15 years and co-ordinates independent trials of potential new
products in addition to developing his own initiatives which focus on
improving behaviour while safeguarding welfare. He lectures
internationally on companion animal behavioural medicine, as well as
teaching the management of animal behaviour problems at both the
University of Lincoln and Nottingham Vet School.
Dr. Maya Braem Dube is a veterinary behaviourist who completed
her veterinary studies and a doctorate at the University of Bern,
Switzerland. She did a post-doc with Professor Daniel Mills at the
University of Lincoln where she was also a guest researcher and worked
in the behaviour clinic. Since moving back to Switzerland in 2008,
she has been working in her private practice for veterinary behaviour
and herbal medicine in both the German and French parts of Switzerland
and offers behaviour consultations at the Veterinary Hospital of the
University of Zürich.
Helen Zulch is a veterinarian who worked in a number of areas
of veterinary science before moving into the field of clinical animal
behaviour over 10 years ago. She lectures on both undergraduate and
postgraduate programmes at the University of Lincoln and contributes
to the programme at Nottingham Vet School. In addition she consults in
the Animal Behaviour Clinic at the University of Lincoln and is
engaged in research in a number of areas within the discipline. Her
chief interests include problem prevention, learning and training,
olfaction and the integration of behaviour into the care of patients
in general practice.
