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Carrying Out a Stress Review of a Cat’s Home Environment

Caroline Clark Qualified Clinical Animal Behaviourist and Veterinary Nurse
13/11/2024

When I have been asked to help a cat with behavioural problems, I always carry out a stress review of their home and surroundings. This helps me identify whether there is anything that might be causing stress and enables me to provide advice and recommendations to their caregivers so they can create an optimal environment for their cat.

Here is a template of a stress review with a column for you to complete for your own cat or for cats that you are helping in a professional capacity. The template was created to supplement ‘Carrying Out a Stress Review’ in Chapter 8: The Fundamentals of Behaviour Analysis of my book A Professional’s Guide to Feline Behaviour: Understanding, Improving and Resolving Problems.

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Identify any factors in a cat’s home environment that may be causing stress, and then think of ways you can reduce, remove, or manage these stressors to create a more harmonious setting.

A Professional’s Guide to Feline Behaviour

A Professional’s Guide to Feline Behaviour is an invaluable resource for the feline professional, yet written in such an accessible way that it would be of interest to anyone who shares their life with a cat and wants to gain a deeper understanding of their behaviour.

The book is presented in easy-to-navigate sections, each packed with practical advice and the colour illustrations, tables and graphics throughout make it approachable for every type of reader.
Pages: 316
Colour Illustrations: 110
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 978-1032171999
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Caroline Clark
Caroline has a long and varied career working with companion animals. After many years working as a veterinary nurse she attended teacher training college and pursued a career in education - teaching veterinary nursing and other animal related subjects. Caroline's interest in behaviour led her to Southampton University where she gained a post graduate diploma in companion animal behaviour counselling and, after qualifying in 2006, she opened her own behaviour referral clinic in Yorkshire . She is a full member of the Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors (APBC) and is one of only a relatively small number of specialists to have achieved the status of Registered Clinical Animal Behaviourist (CAB) with the Animal Behaviour Training Council. (ABTC). Caroline is the author of two books: Fear and Anxiety in Dogs, published by Crowood Press and A Professional's Guide to Feline Behaviour, published by CRC Press. Caroline has also written several articles for veterinary journals, is a public speaker and has appeared as the animal specialist on the 20 part, Channel Four TV series, ‘Embarrassing Pets’ which is still aired worldwide.