In this study, behavioral characteristics in purebred cats were hypothesized to associate with breed, eye color, coat color, and coat pattern. Owners of 574 single-breed, registered cats completed the Feline Behavioral Assessment and Research Questionnaire, which generates a standardized behavioral ...

Background: The number of pet cats is increasing in most countries, often outnumbering pet dogs, yet cats receive less veterinary care than their canine counterparts. Clients state the difficulty of getting the cat into a carrier at home, driving to the clinic, and dealing with the fearful cat at...

Feline handling in the veterinary hospital is important to protect both people and cats. Restraint has been used to enable us to perform our duties as veterinarians. With increased knowledge of feline behavior and how cats react to fear, newer information provides us with safer handling techniques. ...

Aggression is a common behavioural problem in pet cats and needs to be resolved before it becomes a chronic condition with possible risks to humans and other animals. The types of aggression in cats are illustrated by a series of line drawings showing different postures and facial expressions. They ...

Objective - 'To identify inciting causes, alternative targets, and risk factors associated with redirected aggression in cats. Design - Case-control study. Animals - 19 cats with a history of redirected aggression and 64 cats with no such history. Procedures - Medical records were reviewed to...

Many situations can induce fear reactions in dogs and cats. It is possible for an animal to show fear towards things, such as people in general or only certain categories of people (e.g. men or children), towards other animals (cospecific, heterospecific or both), towards traffic, grids, steps,...

Not only behavioral disorders, but also normal behaviors are important causes of euthanasia and abandonment of healthy cats. The aim of this study was to evaluate prevalence and risk factors of behavior problems in cats presented to the Small Animal Clinic at Islamic Azad University through the...

Previous research showed that behavior problems are a major reason for relinquishing adopted dogs to animal shelters, and it is possible that undesirable behaviors also affect the success of adoptions of retired racing greyhounds. The present study aimed to measure behaviors of ex-racing greyhounds ...

The substantiation of the relevance of a new direction in veterinary medicine - "Behavioral Veterinary Medicine" is given to conduct a thorough analysis of the causes, consequences, as well as methods of prevention, diagnosis, therapy and correction of behavioral disorders in cats and dogs, to...

Veterinary care can both positively and negatively impact animal welfare in terms of behavioural welfare. This occurs both in the veterinary clinic through interactions with patients and management of their stress, fear and aggression, and in the animal's home through the provision of behaviour and ...