Stress and Pheromonatherapy in Small Animal Clinical Behaviour - Mills, Daniel S.; Braem Dube, Maya; Zulch, Helen
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Stress and Pheromonatherapy in Small Animal ClinicalBehaviour is about how stress impacts on animal behaviour andwelfare and what we can do about it, especially by using chemicalsignals more effectively. This readily accessible text starts fromfirst principles and is useful to both academics and practitionersalike. It offers a framework for understanding howpheromonatherapy can be used to encourage desirable behaviour indogs and cats and also a fresh approach to understanding the natureof clinical animal behaviour problems.
The authors have pioneered the use of pheromone therapy withinthe…mehr

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Stress and Pheromonatherapy in Small Animal ClinicalBehaviour is about how stress impacts on animal behaviour andwelfare and what we can do about it, especially by using chemicalsignals more effectively. This readily accessible text starts fromfirst principles and is useful to both academics and practitionersalike. It offers a framework for understanding howpheromonatherapy can be used to encourage desirable behaviour indogs and cats and also a fresh approach to understanding the natureof clinical animal behaviour problems.

The authors have pioneered the use of pheromone therapy withinthe field of clinical animal behaviour. As the culmination ofmany years of research and experience, they offer soundevidence-based advice on how and when pheromones can be used mosteffectively.

The first part of the book deals with some fundamental concepts,focusing on the key concepts of stress, communication andperception. It then provides a framework for the evaluationof problem behaviour to allow consideration of the possible role ornot of pheromonatherapy. Part 2 covers the application ofthese concepts to a range of specific situations, concentrating onconditions in which there has been most research to support theefficacy of pheromonatherapy.

Suitable for veterinarians in small animal practice, students ofclinical animal behaviour, veterinary nurses and technicians, aswell as specialists and researchers in animal behaviourtherapy.
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Autorenporträt
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.