Behaviour Treatment Plans
"We owe so much to DVBP for their empathy, help, patience and understanding and would definitely recommend to anyone who needs help with their pet." Lisa, Bedfordshire
Each of our behaviour treatment plans, or modification plans (BMP), is developed for your animal and his/her needs by a multi-disciplinary team including a clinical animal behaviourist and a veterinary behaviourist - and for dogs, a canine trainer is also included!
A plan begins with an in-depth online consultation with the experienced clinical animal behaviourist you selected to help you through to success. During the consultation they will discuss your animal's lifestyle, history and current behaviours with you. Your clinical animal behaviourist in collaboration with one of our veterinary behaviourists then creates a bespoke behaviour modification plan for your animal and their specific issue/s based on the information gathered from the initial consultation, the clinical history provided by your animal's vet practice and any other additional information received.
The plan provides advice on how to work with your animal and their problem behaviour, guiding you through the short and long-term changes to be implemented. In cases where adjunctive medication is advised, this is provided in a veterinary report to your animal's veterinary practice.
We’ll be with you throughout the entire plan, you can send updates and questions as you go.
On receiving the behaviour treatment plan, you can begin to put in place the guidance provided. To maximise your animal's success and the effectiveness of the plan, we also include complementary care and support in the form of email support and up to 3 follow-up online consultations so we can review progress, discuss any obstacles and tweak or develop techniques. Free one-to-one canine training is also included in our canine behaviour treatment plans. We’ll be with you throughout the entire plan, you can send updates and questions as you go. We recommend that the follow-up consultations are spaced 4-6 weeks apart although this may be adjusted to provide enough time between appointments to implement the advice and teaching given so a plan typically takes place over a minimum 3-month period.
What’s included in your DVBP Treatment Plan?
- Your own experienced clinical animal behaviourist
- In-depth initial consultation from which your dog’s bespoke BMP is created (duration: 2 hours).
- Bespoke treatment plan provided as a PDF report.
- Relevant handouts are provided based on your dog’s behaviour issues.
- 2 follow-up consultations (duration: 30 min) (Spaced approximately 4 – 6 weeks apart.)
- For dogs, free one-to-one training is included. We offer 1x 1 hour and 2x 30 minute online training sessions with our canine trainer.
- Administrative support
- A separate veterinary report will be provided to your veterinary practice, if required. This is also included within your plan!
- Final review consultation to celebrate how far you've progressed and how to implement any longer-term changes for the future! (duration: 1 hour)
All our behaviour consultations and training sessions are online so location is not a problem.
How to book
To ensure that treatment can begin we must receive the following in advance of a consultation:
- Questionnaire: Complete the relevant questionnaire below.
- DVBP online referral: Being a referral-only practice, permission is required by your animal's vet to discuss the case. Contact your animal's veterinary practice and request them to complete our referral form and attach the animal’s clinical history and any test results or referral reports to this too, or if they would prefer, they can email it to info@donovanvetbehaviour.com. The vet may request to see your animal if they have not been seen for a while.
- Go to our About Us page to find out which clinical animal behaviourist is right for you.
- Payment: Click here to pay and book your selected treatment plan for your animal's species and your preferred behaviourist: Pay & Book If you would prefer to pay by BACs or in instalments, please contact us at info@donovanvetbehaviour.com.
- Videos: Send up to 5 videos of your animal or any interactions and a video tour/walkthrough of your house. For guidance on sending images and videos, please click here.
Tip! If your animal is insured, contact your insurance company to check whether behaviour referrals are covered.
Not sure if this is the right option for you and your animal?
It might not be straightforward what option is best for you and your animal. Don't worry, we CAN help you! We just need to know more about you, your animal and your household and some details of what the unwanted behaviour is. You can either Contact Us, or preferably, you can complete and submit one of the questionnaires above for your animal. Please mention that you're not sure which behaviour option is right for your animal. We will then contact you and explain what would be the best next step to take.
Please allow up to 5 working days for a response and add info@donovanvetbehaviour.com to your safe senders list or check your spam/junk folder in case our response is filtered there in error.
Got any questions?
If you have any questions, please check our FAQs or get in touch via email or Contact Us.
