Dr. Terry Curtis is a clinical behaviorist at the University of Florida. This conversation was recorded during the 2008 North American Veterinary Conference where she was leading two master classes.
Over the course of the interview we covered a wide range of topics, including:
Common cat behavior issues
Inappropriate elimination
Aggression
Compulsion (over grooming)
Master Class: Is it Behavior or Neurology?
Confronting the myth of behavior as a soft science
The use of pharmaceuticals in treating animal behavior issues
Some of the commonalities in recent discoveries in brain science in humans and animals