This handbook for the diagnosis and treatment of behavior problems in dogs and cats features diagnostic guidelines, preventative advice, treatment guidelines and charts, case examples, client forms and handouts, product and resource suggestions, and details on the use of drugs and natural supplements to help optimize the behavior services offered in practice.--From publisher description.

Revision of: Handbook of behavior problems of the dog and cat. Ã2003.

Behavior counseling and the veterinary practitioner -- Developmental, social, and communicative behavior -- Pet selection and the genetics of behavior -- Prevention : the best medicine -- Behavior counseling and behavioral diagnostics -- Is it behavioral, or is it medical? -- Treatment -- behavior modification techniques -- Pharmacologic intervention in behavioral therapy -- Complementary and alternative therapy for behavior problems -- Feeding and diet-related problems -- Stereotypic and compulsive disorders -- Fears, phobias, and anxiety disorders -- The effects of aging on behavior in senior pets -- Unruly behaviors, training and management -- dogs -- Unruly behaviors, training and management -- cats -- Canine destructive behaviors -- Feline destructive behaviors -- Canine housesoiling -- Feline housesoiling -- Canine aggression -- Feline aggression -- Terminology, behavioral pathology and the Pageat (French) approach to canine behavior problems -- Reducing stress and managing fear aggression in veterinary clinics.