Consultation
If your cat's aggressive, anxious, or pottying outside the box or your dog displays fearful, anxious, reactive, aggressive or even unusually hyperactive or puzzling behaviors, then a behavior consult from an educated professional may be what you need. These are issues that require more than skill at teaching sit, heel and down. They first require an evaluation of all the factors that influence your pet's behavior, an assessment of behavioral traits such as anxiety and arousal level that contribute to the behavioral issue, and an analysis of important health factors. Once your pet and situation have been thoroughly assessed the next step is a specific plan of action tailored to your and your pet's needs and that is modified based on your pet's progress.
If you're looking for this type of one-on-one help, please click below for further information or follow the links to veterinary or certified applied animal behaviorists in your area.
What if you live too far away or otherwise can't schedule a consult with Dr. Yin?
- Find veterinary behaviorists in your area at www.AVSABonline.org. Find Certified Applied Animal Behaviorists at www.certifiedanimalbehaviorist.com. See Dr. Yin's' resources to find behaviorists Dr. Yin knows.
- If your pet has problems at the veterinary hospital or for issues related to handling for medical or grooming procedures, refer to Dr. Yin's book and DVD for petcare professionals, Low Stress Handling, Restraint and Behavior Modification of Dogs & Cats and go to http://lowstresshandling.drsophiayin.com.
- Note: Dr. Yin no longer sees cases at VCA San Francisco Veterinary Specialists—other veterinarians seeing behavior cases in the Bay Area include Dr. Leslie Cooper at VCA San Francisco Veterinary Specialists and Dr. Jeanine Berger at the San Francisco SPCA. The UC Davis Behavior Service sees consults in Davis.
What if you can't afford a consult?
- Dr. Yin provides many free resources on this web site including hundreds of articles, nearly 100 videos, posters, handouts, and more. Find the topic that pertains to your situation by going to the dog behavior issues or cat behavior issues pages or using the search function. You can also find links to other animal behavior web sites as well as animal behavior helplines.
