To modify an animal behavior, in first place it is necessary to identify the cause. A clinical exam will discard problems nutritional or metabolic.
If the problem is nutritional the vitamin supplement of the diet will solve the problem and in the cases of metabolic problems, the treatment of the disease will also solve the problem.
Now, being a behavior problem, some measured they are necessary for the animal to give up of that habit.
In first place, reduce the access to the feces through it ready elimination. Walk with the arrested dog to the guide, to facilitate to move away him of the feces.
Don’t allow access to the street without supervision, unless the animal has defecated and the area is free from fecal material.
Move the sanitary trays for an inaccessible area to the dog.
Put a muzzle in the walks. Give a reward of food to the dog when he defecates, doing with that he waits for the food instead of seeking for feces.
Teach the command “Leaves” in order to call the dog for far away from the feces and reward him when he obeys.
Provide valves of escape alternatives for the activities and meals, such as toys feeders and games of finding food.
Use repellent with unpleasant smell to the animal.
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Massage is generally enjoyed by small animal patients and helps to relieve distress, anxiety, and discomfort. There are many postulated effects of massage. Unfortunately, many of these have not been substantiated by systematic scientific investigations.
Stroking young animals results in a reduction in the animal´s physiologic response to stress. Young animals that are handled also show greater development of the cortex and the subcortex of the brain. They learn faster and have a more advanced stage of neural development than nonhandled animals.
Resistance to infection later in life may also be beneficially influenced by cutaneous stimulation experienced by the infant animal.
If a hand is placed over the surface of a dog´s skin, heat is felt between the two surfaces. Heat is a form of energy, and some schools of massage, use the energy field that exists around the body.
Massage may add an external stimulus to sensory organs and either increases muscle tone by stimulation or reduces it, probably by facillitating an accommodation of the spindle, causing it to reset at a lower treshold of excitability.
It is believed that the circulatory effect of massage will reduce muscle sorennes and thus aid clinical signs associated with muscle injury or post exercise recovery.
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The expectations of animals travel with their owners, so much to a close place, as for distant destinies, they are growing, as it is evidenced by hotels that admit pet and for activities for them in the destiny place.
Conditions that turn those displacements difficult or dangerous for the animal or for the proprietor they need to receive attention.
Concerns on trips with pet relapse on three categories: nausea movement, uncontrollable behaviors and related behaviors the anxiety.
The safety of the animal and of the person operating the vehicle can be committed in a significant way when the animal has related problems the trip. His behavior can distract the proprietor, turning it prone to you alter.
Animals that space for the front bank of the car can put in risk the proprietor’s ability to drive in a correct way, as well as his own integrity.
Whenever it will travel, or even in short distances, use the transport box or the seatbelt for animals. He will be safe and it won’t disturb the driver. Consult the veterinarian so that some medicine can be written prescriptions in case the animal has nausea or be very anxious.
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Compulsive behaviors are a sequence of movements usually derived of normal behaviors of maintenance (to take care of the for the, to eat, to walk, etc) that are accomplished out of context, in a way repetitive, exaggerating and sustained. To be considered compulsive, the behavior pattern that is under consideration should be pronounced sufficiently in way to exceed the necessary to reach his apparent purpose or so that it interferes in the normal operation of the animal.
The more common compulsive behaviors include to twirl, to pursue the tail, to hallucinate, to walk in circles, to run along a fence, to walk to and fro, to vocalize and to pursue shadows and lights.
The compulsive upset are an exclusion diagnosis. It should be discarded other causes of the aberrant behavior before doing the diagnosis.
They can be an behavior answer to the confinement or other conditions environmental vacancies(as stress, anxiety, frustration). In the course of time, the behavior can become fixed and independent of the atmosphere.
Compulsive behaviors can be classified in five different groups:
1 – locomotion: to twirl, to pursue the tail…
2 – oral: to lick, to bite, to suck the flank…
3 – vocalization: to bark repeatedly, to whine, to meow loud…
4 – hallucinatory: to pursue shadows and lights, to scare…
5 – aggressive: aggression
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To pursue the tail or to twirl describes the behavior in that the animal rotates in small circles, seemingly trying to catch his tail. Some animals make contact with their tails and they hurt them, while other they just accomplish the sequence of the persecution.
To pursue the tail is a unspecific sign clinical that can have different aetiologies. The persecution of the tail can happen in times of stress, frustação or conflict. Pursuing the tail that is diagnosed as compulsive behavior is susceptible to be observed in males castrated in in races that are selected for pasturing work.
The genetic predisposition can be a factor. Any situation that causes stress, conflict or frustration can contribute. The animal can be motivated to exhibit certain behavior, but it is impeded of doing, causing frustration.
The causes can be: upset compulsive, search of attention, neurological, dermatologyc, metabolic, infective and degenerative diseases, intoxications, pain, parasites.
It is necessary a detailed exam to discover the cause of the behavior of pursuing the tail and then to draw a treatment protocol.
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The hyperactivity is a very common complaint that links the excitability and/or excessive activity. It in general is not owed to a physiologic disturbance, but to a normal expression of typical behaviors of a race or the a behavior unaware conditioned.
However, some cases of hyperactivity and hyperexcitability are secondary to a true psychological upset. The animals that demonstrate them are referred as hypercinesia, in other words, they don’t become used to naturally to environmental incentives and they possess an exacerbated reactivity.
Not just those animals demonstrate excessive levels of activity and reactivity, as well as they seem not to get to be quiet or to rest, even in atmosphere without incentives.
Although in general those animals don’t have the intention of causing damages, wounds can happen in an inadvertent way with agitated behaviors, how to jump in the people.
After the evaluation of the case, the treatment can be accomplished with the use of medicines, behavior change and obedience training.
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Mourning is the state of sadness due to the death or departure of somebody else. The proprietors occasionally tell solid signs with mourning or, with more frequency, they express concern regarding the handout in mourning on the part of the animals that are. Inherent to the definition in mourning it is the confirmation of the emotional state of the dog or of the cat.
A true process of sadness, similar to the human emotional process, it can happen in cats and dogs. The animal can be reacting or answering to changes of the human behavior associated with the process in mourning.
A companion’s animal or human loss can generate instability or changes in the social structure. That instability can come as behavior changes in the surviving animals.
The animals can develop behaviors of search of attention or related the anxiety with base in the owner’s reactions.
A variety of clinical signs in the animal can be told by the proprietor, as: social retraction, increase of sleep period, agitation, search behavior, appetite loss, increase of the irritability or aggression, fear, anxiety, vocalization, destruction.
In most of the cases, the clinical signs are solved in the course of time. That can be due to a great number of reasons, including estrangement of the event, reduction of the active process of the mourning, establishment of new routines and stabilization in the social structure of the home.
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The noise phobia is a fear deep, persistent and excessive of noises. An answer can vary from a catatonic state to a maniac state. The predominant characteristic is that the reaction is excessive to the end and considered abnormal to the context.
Physiologic alterations as hypervigilance, avoid behaviors, possible aggression, palpitation, salivation, diarrhea, vomit, increase of the motive activity, tremors, weight loss in the course of time, extensive pupils, excessive loss of for the… they can happen.
It can attack dogs and cats of any age, sex or race.
A management of the behavior should be made so that the animal gets used to the sounds, mainly those that him more he is afraid.
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It is the displacement medial or lateral of the stifle of his normal anatomical position.
It can be moderate to serious and it presents different degrees of clinical and pathological alterations, classified in degrees I-IV.
It is one of the most common abnormalities of the articulation of the knee in dogs. It is uncommon in cats, but it can be more common than is suspected because most of the affected cats doesn’t limp.
The clinical signs can grow soon after the birth, it usually happens after the 4 months of age. The females are 1,5 times more attacked than the males.
The causes are congenital and/or traumatic.
In the serious cases (degrees II, III, IV) the surgery is indicated. And in all of the cases the acupuncture and the physiotherapy help in the recovery of the animal.
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To transfer the odor of a cat for another can help to create a likeness among them. That transfer can be passive, as the cats get in touch with the same intimate objects or ti can happen actively, when they are scrubbed or they are whipped. The human beings can increase the transfer caressing the cats with a bath towel/glove…everyday.
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To modify an animal behavior, in first place it is necessary to identify the cause. A clinical exam will discard problems nutritional or metabolic. 
