About this Webinar

This course delves into the neurobiological foundations of stereotypical and repetitive behaviours in dogs, exploring their causes, mechanisms, and impact on welfare. You will examine how neural circuits, developmental factors, and environmental stressors contribute to these behaviours, and gain practical strategies for intervention. Whether you're working with compulsive, stereotypical, or abnormal repetitive behaviours, this course provides critical insights to improve your understanding and management of such cases in dogs.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Distinguish between compulsive behaviours, stereotypies, and stereotypical behaviours, and their neurobiological underpinnings.

  2. Learn how the pathology of similar repetitive behaviours can vary between dogs and why individualised approaches are necessary.

  3. Recognize the complex relationship between repetitive behaviours and animal welfare, including both negative and potential coping functions.

  4. Develop nuanced strategies to manage and prevent repetitive behaviours, adjusting techniques based on behavioural assessment and underlying causes.

  5. Discover successful treatment approaches for repetitive behaviours, including environmental modifications and therapeutic interventions.

Meet your Instructor

Daniel Shaw BSc (Hons), GMBPsS, CDBC is an animal behaviourist with a background in animal behaviour, psychology and neuroscience. As the owner of Animal Behaviour Kent, Daniel supports dogs and cats with behaviour problems, and has a special interest in aggression, frustration, and the effects of trauma on animals. Daniel provides expert witness assessments for legal cases involving the Dangerous Dogs Act and recently spoke in Parliament on the topic of dog bite reform. Daniel also regularly appears in the media, and has been interviewed on LBC News as well as being interviewed for the Guardian. Daniel is a degree qualified psychologist, a certified dog behaviour consultant with the International Association of Animal Behaviour Consultants (IAABC), and is currently obtaining a masters degree in neuroscience.