Presented by Dr. Shana Gilbert Gregory
Pending RACE approval (1 CE Credit)
Treating separation anxiety can be nerve wracking and exhausting. This lecture will cover the basics of how to discuss separation anxiety with owners, medications/supplements to consider and how to choose which medication to use in your patients and behavior modification tools to implement to improve patient responses to departures.
Program Agenda:
- Identifying separation anxiety in dogs and cats
- Distinguishing between separation anxiety and other behavioral pathologies
- Pharmaceutical/nutraceutical help for separation anxiety patients
- Choosing which medications/supplements would be helpful for your patients
- How to discuss medication with owners
- Behavior modification to consider for separation anxiety patients
- What can you suggest?
- What are the practical application of training/behavior modification options owners have found?
- Behavioral euthanasia for separation anxiety patients
Learning Objectives:
This lecture will provide the primary care clinician with:
1. Tools to better help owners understand their pet’s distress/panic and respond humanely to the expressions of panic exhibited by pets experiencing separation anxiety
2. Help owners understand the value of anti-anxiety medication in treating separation anxiety
3. Provide owners with practical, easy-to-use behavior modification options for dogs and cats suffering with separation anxiety