Part B:

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Part B Pet support environments
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Topics

• Choosing a pet
• Behavior, social issues
• Housing, environmental issues
• Animals in therapy, research
• Ethics, emotional issues
• P------
• U------
• L------

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Choosing a Pet

• Goals
• Approach
• Research
• Plan
• Acquire

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Choosing a Pet

• Goals in choosing the right pet
• Provide responsible ownership (guardianship?)
• Individual Provide mutually fulfilling
  relationship for lifetime of the pet
• Population_____________________

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Ownership

• Preparations
• Emotional
• Mental
• Physical
• Financial
• Considerations
• Life stage (______, ______)
• Family home issues
• Flexibility (health, money, resources)

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Approach

• Research for realistic compatibility
• Species
• Breed
• Gender
• ____________
• Finances
• Sources
• Needs for a ______________

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Approach

• Research
• Species
• Dog, cat, exotic
• Multiple pets?
• Breed/Temperament
• Gender
• Male, female
• Spay/neutered

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Approach

• Research
• Environment

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Approach

• Research for realistic compatibility
• Finances
• __________
• Housing
• Medical care (routine, emergency)
• Toys and supplies
• Sources
• Breeders, suppliers
• Stores, pet shops
• Kroger, newspaper, __________
• Needs for a lifetime

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Approach

• Plan
• Housing
• Nutrition
• Health care
• Mental/emotional care
• Finances/insurance needs
• Acquisition (where, when)

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Approach

• Acquire
• Sources
• Time frame
• Animal age
• Owner timing concerns
• Family housing changes
• Other pets, recent losses?

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Behavior Social Issues

• Behavior
• Common problems issues causes
• Potential solutions
• Social issues
• Socialization in nature
• ________________
• General considerations
• Selected issues

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Behavior Issues Causes

• Impact Personal family issues
• pecking order
• Compatibility (today, tomorrow)
• Normal behaviors (dog vs. cat)
• Common solutions

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Behavior Issues Causes

• Impact General issues
• Pets ? shelters
• (5-6 million/yr in U.S.
• ______ due to behavior issues)
• Overpopulation (shelters, property damage,
  disease injury)
• Animal neglect, misuse, abuse (controversy,
  protests, activists)

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Behavior Issues Causes

• Impact
• Common causes
• _________________________________
• Early socialization (2-3 mos old)
• Training (dogs!)
• Behavior reinforcement
• Health changes
• Animals own past

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Socialization

• In the wild
• Dogs pack structure
• Hunting, protecting, mating, teaching
• Cats asocial structure
• Solitary nocturnal lifestyle, territory

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Socialization

• Dogs Human pack teach protect
• Primary socialization period (PSP) _______
• Playtime exploratory, social, objects, groups
• Kennelosis or agoraphobia (8wks old)
• Fear of strangers vs. bonding (8-14 wks old)
• Solutions?
• adoption 6-8 wks old
• puppy classes, playgroups?
• rule of 7 s

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Socialization

• Cats confinement, social groups
• Primary socialization period (PSP) _________
  (primary species attachments)
• Playtime exploratory, social, objects, groups
• Kennelosis or agoraphobia (8wks old)
• Fear of strangers vs. bonding (8-14 wks old)
• Solutions?
• adoption 6-8 wks old
• environmental enrichment
• pairs?

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Communication

• Visual
• Body posture
• Ear position
• Head/eyes position
• Tail position
• Actions (jumping up)

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Communication

• Vocal/Auditory
• Variety of sounds
• Infantile (mew, whine)
• Warning (hiss, growl)
• Calling/eliciting
• Withdrawal (yelp)
• Pleasure (_____, _____)
• Variety of responses
• Vocal, visual, physical

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Communication

• Olfactory
• Dogs
• Keenest sense of domestic spp.
• (________ human)
• Scent sources (urine, feces, anal sacs)
  pheromones
• Information territory, gender, pack-mate,
  reproductive status

• Cats
• 2 x smell receptors in nose vs. human
• Scent sources (urine, feces, scent glands _____
  ________) pheromones
• Information territory, gender, familiarity,
  reproductive status

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Behaviors - general

• Eating
• Neonate suckling, reflexes, instinct
• Adolescent, adult variety food types and
  triggers vs. instinct
• Preferences (food types, environment, experiences
  aversions)
• Uses (feeding, training, rewards, attention
  substitute)
• Addiction vs. need (birds sunflower seeds)
• Unusual tastes ______, grass, coprophagy

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Behaviors - general

• Eliminating
• Neonate maternal stimulation
• Adolescent, adult
• 3 wks old (puppy, kitten)
• Preferences environment, experiences
• Normal times after eating/drinking, playing,
  sleeping
• Role of territory marking

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Behaviors - general

• Navigating homing instinct
• Birds
• Dogs, cats
• Fighting
• Wild rare within species, group
• Domestic more common, human effect?
• Mating
• Hormone-driven behaviors
• Solutions?
• -
• -
• -

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Behaviors - specific

• ____________________
• Breed or temperament mismatch with expectations
  or environment
• Research your pet!
• Effects of stress
• Solutions?
• Health issues (neurologic, nutrition?)
• Medical workup
• Diet analysis, modification (ex protein)

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Behaviors - specific

• Aggression (temperament, training, breed)
• Owner, breed mismatch
• Environment, other animals
• Research, training
• Behavior management/therapy
• Medical considerations (pain, disease)

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Behaviors - specific

• Separation anxiety (breed, history)
• Overdependent on owner presence
• Solutions?
• Determine cues (loss, schedules)
• Distract attention/desensitize
• Different companionship
• ___________ therapy

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Behaviors - specific

• Inappropriate elimination
• Dogs
• Location
• Triggers
• Health concerns
• Cats
• www.nssvet.org

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Behavior Evaluation

• General tests for temperament, behavior
• Social attraction obedient, attentive
• Following attentive, dependent
• Restraint trust, obedience
• Social dominance whos in charge?
• Elevation dominance trust, dependence
• Practical uses for knowing these responses in
  your pet?

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