Veterinary Behaviour Support Service
Professional veterinary behaviour guidance for behaviour practitioners
Are you an animal behaviourist in the UK looking for veterinary behaviour support and input with your behaviour cases? If so, we can help!
Veterinary Behaviour Support Service
Working with behaviour cases can sometimes require veterinary expertise, particularly when medical causes, pain, or behavioural medication may be involved. Our Veterinary Behaviour Support Service provides accessible, collaborative support for non-veterinary behaviourists managing complex cases. We offer structured, one-hour (initial) and 30 minute (follow up) online consultations to help you gain veterinary insight, improve case outcomes, and support the welfare of the animals in your care.
Who This Service Is For?
This service is designed for:
- Non-Veterinary behaviour professionals who require veterinary input on a case
- Practitioners seeking guidance on medical factors influencing behaviour
Our goal is to support behaviour professionals while ensuring cases are approached with both behavioural and veterinary perspectives.
What This Service Provides
✔ Veterinary insight into behaviour cases
✔ Guidance on possible medical influences on behaviour
✔ Discussion of behavioural pharmacology where appropriate
✔ Support in complex or challenging cases
✔ Collaboration between veterinary and behaviour professionals
This service is not intended to replace the animal’s primary veterinarian, but rather to provide additional veterinary behavioural expertise. It is also important to note that responsibility for the animals care and for dispensing and prescribing remains with the animals primary referring vet.
This service also does not intend to replace the animal's primary behaviourist (you). As such, the responsibility for assessment and provision of an appropriate ongoing behaviour / environmental modification and training plan remains with the primary behaviourist who has led on the case to date.
How the Service Works
1. Case Review
If you would like our support and input on a particular case, we will require relevant information such as:
- Behaviour history (to include assessment and behaviour report which details any management and behaviour interventions)
- Any relevant videos or documentation
This allows us to review the case history and ensure that the consultation with one of our veterinary behaviourists is clinically appropriate.
2. Veterinary Referral Required
To ensure appropriate collaboration, we require a veterinary referral to us before booking a consultation.
Referrals (referral form and clinical history) needs to be made by the animal’s primary care veterinarian. This needs to be sent to us prior to booking a consultation with one of our Veterinary Behaviour team.
3. Initial One-Hour Online Consultation
Consultations are conducted via secure online video call and last up to one hour.
During the consultation we may discuss:
- Possible medical contributors to behaviour
- Pain-related behaviour considerations
- If any further veterinary investigation may be appropriate
- Potential behavioural medication discussions and suggestions (where appropriate)
Our approach is collaborative — we aim to support the behaviour professional who is managing the case.
Following the online consultation we will write a report summarising any suggestions made. This will be sent to both the referring vet and you, the behaviour professional.
Cost £235 per initial consultation.
4. Follow-up 30 Minute Online Consultation (within 3 months of initial consultation with us)
If further veterinary behaviour input is required with a case, we offer shorter, secure online video call follow up consultations of up to 30 minutes.
These sessions are aimed at reviewing and deciding next steps on any veterinary behaviour aspects of a case which have been discussed previously, either as an initial or follow up consultation.
As with initial online consultations, any follow up consultations will also include a report summarising any suggestions made. This will be sent to both the referring vet and you, the behaviour professional.
Cost per 30-min session £105
Consultation Format
- Duration: 60 minutes
- Format: Online video consultation
- Participants: Behaviour professional (client attendance optional depending on case)
- Report: Written summary provided to you and the referring vet following consultation
Why Seek Veterinary Behaviour Input?
Many behavioural problems may be influenced by underlying medical factors, including:
- Pain or discomfort
- Hormonal influences
- Cognitive changes
- Emotional regulation which may require medication support
Collaborating with a us can help ensure the veterinary behaviour aspects of your behaviour plans are appropriately covered, and evidence-based.
Book a Consultation
If you are a behaviour professional working with a case that may benefit from veterinary input, we would be pleased to work with you.
To begin the process:
1. Provide relevant case documentation to us via email: admin@petbc.co.uk (please ensure you have client consent for this)
2. Request and send us a veterinary referral form to include full medical history
3. Schedule your one-hour consultation
We believe the best outcomes for animals come from collaboration between veterinary professionals and behaviour professionals. By working together, we can ensure that behavioural challenges are addressed with a full understanding of both medical and behavioural factors.
