for vets

Partnering with veterinary and other canine professionals, for better behavioural outcomes.

Trusted Behaviour Support for Your Clients

As a veterinary professional, you play a crucial role in ensuring the overall health and wellbeing of the dogs in your care. When behavioural concerns arise, knowing where to refer your clients can make all the difference.

That’s where The Canine Behaviour and Training Society (TCBTS) comes in. Our behaviourist members can help your clients with a wide range of behavioural concerns. As an ABTC registered member organisation, you can feel confident that our accredited behaviour professionals offer ethical, science-backed behaviour support to help owners manage and resolve dog behaviour issues effectively.

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Our Values

… and what they mean for you, as a veterinary professional

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COLLABORATIVE

TCBTS promotes collaboration between vets and our members. In the case of Clinical Animal Behaviourists and Accredited Animal Behaviourists, cases are taken on veterinary referral, to support effective communication.  We have also developed strategic partnerships with other organisations and work closely with fellow ABTC member organisations.  TCBTS professionals from all ABTC roles are available for advice and referrals.

PROGRESSIVE

TCBTS members use progressive, welfare-focused methods when working with dogs, whether implementing training or addressing problem behaviours. Working with the ABTC towards industry regulation and being at the forefront of ethical practices, you can feel confident to refer clients to members of the TCBTS.

supportive

TCBTS members recognise the importance of working in partnership with other professionals, especially those in the veterinary sector, to provide the best possible service for clients. Many members offer additional support to veterinary practices, through professional CPD or information to share with clients.

What can we help with?

Our behaviourists can help with a wide range of canine behavioural issues including:

Separation related issues
including destructiveness, vocalisation, toileting

Excessive behaviours
Including barking, compulsive behaviour e.g. shadow chasing

Resource guarding behaviour
Aggressive warnings when in possession of a resource

Aggressive behaviour towards people
Barking, growling, snapping or biting family members or strangers

Reactivity or aggression to other dogs
Barking, lunging, snapping or biting familiar or unfamiliar dogs

Chasing behaviour
Problems with cars, bikes, joggers, wildlife, livestock

Fearfulness, anxiety or phobias
May be in response to specific stimuli or more generally

Sound sensitivity
Problems with fireworks, thunderstorms, traffic, aircraft etc.

Frequently Asked Q’s

  • Our accredited behaviourist members can help with various behavioural issues including:

    • Aggressive behaviour towards humans, other dogs or other animals

    • Separation related issues including destructiveness

    • Chasing: cars, bikes, joggers, livestock, wildlife

    • Inappropriate barking

    • Compulsive behaviours

    • Phobias

    • Nervous or fearful behaviour

    • Sound sensitivity towards fireworks, thunderstorms, traffic

    • Resource guarding

  • There is an increasing body of research linking the effects of ill-health and behaviour.  This can manifest via aggression, separation distress, possessive behaviour, hyperactive behaviour, fearful and phobic behaviour or withdrawn behaviour, to name but a few.

    Our job as behaviourists is to examine the history and presenting signs, consider the likely predisposing, initiating and maintenance factors pertaining to the case and help our clients understand why a problem has developed and how to improve matters.  Many behaviour problems may be initiated by the onset of pain or disease, or can be exacerbated by the onset of pain or disease, or memory of pain.

    It is also important to us that we have a contact to communicate with, should there be a need to discuss any concerns which a behaviourist may identify in the course of in-depth discussion or observations, or discuss the potential use of psychotropic medication, dietary change if there is a concern there, or the use of nutraceuticals.

    As anABTC-registered organisation, we welcome the expansion of the RCVS’s influence to include allied professionals. Our full members are CAB, AAB or ABT ABTC practitioners. This means they follow the ABTC code of conduct

  • Many clients can claim for our Clinical Animal Behaviourist (CAB) members’ consultation fees, subject to their policy.

  • Our members follow the highest standards in canine training and behaviour modification, ensuring kind, effective methods.

  • We’d be happy to help. You can get in touch us via our contact form here. We look forward to hearing from you soon!