{"title":"Travel/carrier phobia and situational fear in a 1-year-old female spayed domestic shorthair cat: A case report","authors":"Taylor Kirby-Madden , Meghan Herron","doi":"10.1016/j.jveb.2024.03.003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A 1-year-old spayed female DSH cat was evaluated for profound fear of the travel carrier, veterinary handling, and new people in her home. The patient was diagnosed with specific phobia (carrier/veterinary handling) with situational fear (of new people) after a behavioral and medical assessment. Treatment with environmental changes, specific training/behavior modification for entering a novel crate, and the event medications gabapentin and lorazepam significantly improved the patient’s fear and phobia. These combined interventions allowed for veterinary care to be administered and for routine car travel.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17567,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Veterinary Behavior-clinical Applications and Research","volume":"73 ","pages":"Pages 51-55"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Veterinary Behavior-clinical Applications and Research","FirstCategoryId":"97","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1558787824000157","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A 1-year-old spayed female DSH cat was evaluated for profound fear of the travel carrier, veterinary handling, and new people in her home. The patient was diagnosed with specific phobia (carrier/veterinary handling) with situational fear (of new people) after a behavioral and medical assessment. Treatment with environmental changes, specific training/behavior modification for entering a novel crate, and the event medications gabapentin and lorazepam significantly improved the patient’s fear and phobia. These combined interventions allowed for veterinary care to be administered and for routine car travel.
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Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research is an international journal that focuses on all aspects of veterinary behavioral medicine, with a particular emphasis on clinical applications and research. Articles cover such topics as basic research involving normal signaling or social behaviors, welfare and/or housing issues, molecular or quantitative genetics, and applied behavioral issues (eg, working dogs) that may have implications for clinical interest or assessment.
JVEB is the official journal of the Australian Veterinary Behaviour Interest Group, the British Veterinary Behaviour Association, Gesellschaft fr Tierverhaltensmedizin und Therapie, the International Working Dog Breeding Association, the Pet Professional Guild, the Association Veterinaire Suisse pour la Medecine Comportementale, and The American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior.
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