Donovan Veterinary Behaviour Practice

20/08/2025

Please keep a look out for Goose 🐾

Please keep a look out for Goose

20/08/2025

Thank you to the wonderful Cat The Vet 🥰🐾

Hannah is great and has been a fantastic help with many of my patients who have needed behavioural support.

So I can definitely recommend this free course for you and the whole team!

https://donovanvetbehaviour.com/behaviourbasics/

Donovan Veterinary Behaviour Practice

18/08/2025

FREE CPD - Veterinary Behaviour - aimed at smallies practices but useful for all veterinary staff!



https://donovanvetbehaviour.com/behaviourbasics/

07/08/2025

🐾 Just a little old man, chilling by the Aga this summer 🥰

🐾 “Nothing to see here…” 🤭 Snuggy bed!

🐾 Did you know that we see cats for behaviour referrals and we’ve had quite a few lately which is wonderful!!!!!! We LOVE helping cats!

🐾 Get in touch if you’ve got a feline friend in need of our help: https://donovanvetbehaviour.com/behaviour-options/

05/08/2025

And then one day…they seem old! ❤️‍🩹

I think it’s really important to focus on quality of life with our pets, not quantity, yet I’ve noticed that a lot of humans focus on how long they can keep an animal living whilst probably unintentionally realising the animal may be suffering.

With age come other diseases, age does not cause these problems itself. The diseases that come with age usually require treatment or management to help to keep quality of life optimal! For example, you may hear somebody say “He’s old so he’s slowing down now”, age hasn’t caused that, it’s likely that another disease is causing this problem, perhaps like osteoarthritis, which can be painful and limiting and needs addressing.

So many pets have unnoticed, undiagnosed pain or discomfort and we see this a lot with cases referred to us.

We are extremely lucky in our vet world to have the option of euthanasia, which means we can prevent or end suffering before we’re really compromising the patient’s quality of life.

We offer consultations if you’d like to discuss any of these points to ensure that you’re making fully informed decisions and the best choices for your pet.

https://donovanvetbehaviour.com/behaviour-options/

27/07/2025

🐾 Do you know a fearful dog that could use our help?

🐾 Please get in touch to see what we can do 🥰

22/06/2025

What a wonderful post, thank you Animal Behaviour and Trauma Recovery Service UK !

We all work so hard towards the main goal/aim… ultimately to improve education, which in turn, improves our animals’ lives and the human-animal bond!

Working well together and collaborating with those in our field of work is so rewarding but also helps to spread the word/education more effectively!

Let’s do this 💪🏼💪🏼

17/06/2025

One of our wonderful patients, turning 3 years old!

Enjoy celebrating little Buddy 🥰

31/05/2025

This boy finds the car boot a safe place, especially on windy (aka very scary) days!

If you need any help with your pet, please see https://donovanvetbehaviour.com/behaviour-options/

14/05/2025

A wonderful description of “tummy rubs” for dogs! Thank you The Mutty Professor 🥰

07/05/2025

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NB OFFER ENDED 4TH MAY

Five years ago today I launched my first ever online courses, Getting Started with the Clicker and How Horses Learn Best: Learning Theory in Context.

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The how Horses Learn Best course is video footage of a CPD day that I ran for the BHS based on the chapter on Learning Theory that I wrote for 'Complete Horsemanship Volume Four'.

To celebrate the fact that I've been delivering online courses for five years now and am looking forward to launching some exciting new courses this year, I'm offering FREE access to both these courses for a limited time period. Just follow the link in the comments and input the coupon code 4MAY25 before 11.30pm BST tonight 4th May 2025. Enjoy!!!

Photography by Daria from the BHS day.