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• Escoger Una Mascota: Guía Para Perros y Gatos - Gatos

  Behavior Management: Pet Selection Guidelines

  Pueden evitarse muchos problemas de salud y de comportamiento en las mascotas pidiendo consejo antes de adquirirlas. Estos consejos ayudan, primero, a seleccionar la mejor mascota para una familia en particular, para lo cual hay que tener en cuenta la especie, la raza, la edad y el sexo del animal, y también el lugar en el que se va a adquirir.

• Fears, Phobias, and Anxiety in Cats and Dogs

  Fear can be a normal response to a threat, but it can also contribute to emotional and physical distress. Anxiety is the anticipation of fear. Phobias are intense fear responses to relatively benign triggers. Behavior modification and medications may be used to treat fear, anxiety, and phobias in dogs and cats.

• Feeding the Mind and Body: Interactive Feeders for Dogs and Cats

  Interactive feeders that require a pet to think and work for their food call upon pets’ natural instincts to hunt or forage. Besides being fun, these food puzzles may help both physical and behavioral problems in cats and dogs. When used correctly, interactive feeders may benefit pets that eat too quickly, become bored when alone, or suffer from separation anxiety.

• Gentamicin + Betamethasone Valerate + Clotrimazole

  Gentamicin + betamethasone valerate + clotrimazole (Otomax®) is a combination topical ear medication used to treat bacterial and/or yeast ear infections in dogs. It is also used off label to treat bacterial and/or yeast infections in cats, or for the topical treatment of superficial skin infections in both dogs and cats.

• Guilty or Innocent? Do pets know they have done something wrong when they act guilty?

  Head down. Eyes averted. Shoulders hunched. Tail thumping the floor. Body retreating. Your pet looks guilty, maybe even apologetic, right? WRONG! Your pet’s body posture and attitude do not indicate guilt or remorse but represent a response to your body posture and attitude.

• Helping Your Grieving Pet

  When a beloved family member dies, the surviving people and pets mourn the loss. Dogs and cats rely on their social group for safety and emotional well being. Surviving pets experience the loss of a favored companion and a disruption of the social dynamic. They may also be distressed when they sense changes in the emotions and behavior of household people.

• Introduction to Desensitization and Counterconditioning

  Using desensitization and counterconditioning, a behavior modification technique, can change a pet's negative emotional response to triggers. The technique is well suited for pets experiencing fear, frustration, or hyperarousal. Desensitization must be done slowly and systematically to avoid inadvertently sensitizing the pet.

• Miedos, Fobias y Ansiedades - Perros / Gatos

  Fears, Phobias, and Anxiety in Cats and Dogs

  El miedo es una respuesta fisiológica, conductual y emocional a determinados estímulos que recibe un animal. La reacción fisiológica provoca un aumento de las frecuencias cardíaca y respiratoria (jadeo), sudoración, temblores, movimientos compulsivos y, en ocasiones, micción y defecación involuntarias.

• Modificacion de la Conducta: Desensibilización, Contra-Condicionamiento e Inunda

  Reducing Fear and Stress with Desensitization and Counterconditioning

  El contra-condicionamiento y la desensibilización sistemática son formas muy eficaces de cambiar las conductas. Generalmente se usa una combinación de ambas técnicas para reducir ciertos comportamientos (miedos, excitación, agresión) asociados a situaciones específicas.

• Niños y Animales

  Children and Pets

  El nacimiento de un bebé o la adopción de un niño/a siempre van unidos a una gran excitación, ansiedad y estrés, pero no sólo para la familia, también las mascotas se ven afectadas.