Abstract
Scientific programme
Main sponsors:
| Thursday 20 | ||
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| Registration: 14.00 − 18.00 | ||
| FDAH pre-Congress Satellite Meeting | ||
| 18.00 | Fleas as anthropod vectors of disease in cats | |
| Sue Shaw, UK and Adam Birkenheuer, US | ||
| 20.00 | ||
| Welcome Reception | ||
| Atrium Bar, Hilton Hotel | ||
| Friday 21 | |||
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| Registration: 07.30 − 09.15 | |||
| Chairman: Sarah Caney | Speakers sponsored by: | ||
| 09.15 | Welcome | ||
| Andy Sparkes, ESFM Chairman | |||
| 09.30 | From the cat's perspective—how to readjust your thinking | ||
| Rachel Casey, UK | |||
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| The EMRA approach to behaviour | |||
| Peter Neville, UK | |||
| 11.00 | Coffee | ||
| 11.45 | Le chat sophistique … communicating with smells! | ||
| Patrick Pageat, France | |||
| 12.45 | Lunch | ||
| 14.00 | Calming techniques for crazy cats | ||
| Sheilah Robertson, US | |||
| 15.00 | Bad hair day … is it all in the mind? (overview and cases of psychogenic feline skin disease) | ||
| Peter Neville, UK | |||
| 16.00 | Tea | ||
| 16.45 | 24/7 indoors—what's the problem? | ||
| Tony Buffington, US | |||
| 17.30 | Behavioural implications of feline population densities | ||
| Sarah Heath, UK | |||
| 18.15 | Listless or lame — recognising manifestations of OA in cats | ||
| Andy Sparkes, UK | |||
| 19.00 | Hill's Reception | ||
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| 08.30 | LUTS in cats—and now for something completely different | |
| Tony Buffington, US | ||
| 09.30 | Normal changes in toileting behaviour | |
| Rachel Casey, UK | ||
| 10.00 | Coffee | |
| 10.45 | The art of perfumery—clinical application of pheromones in treatment of spraying | |
| Patrick Pageat, France | ||
| 11.30 | Feline hyperaesthesia syndrome and orofacial pain in Burmese | |
| Sarah Heath, UK and Clare Rusbridge, UK | ||
| 12.30 | A marriage made in heaven—stressed cats and white coats The cat in practice/cat friendly practice | |
| Margie Scherk, Canada and Sarah Caney, UK | ||
| 13.45 | AGM | |
| 14.15 | Afternoon off Masquerade Gala Dinner at the Zofin Palace | |
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| 09.00 | Osteoarthritis and chronic pain in cats | |
| Sheilah Robertson, US | ||
| 10.00 | Do I look like I'm bothered … recognition of stress in cats! | |
| Rachel Casey, UK | ||
| 10.30 | Coffee | |
| 11.15 | I think I'm losing my mind—cognitive dysfunction in cats | |
| Katherine Houpt, US | ||
| 12.00 | Cross cats—aggression case report | |
| Peter Neville, UK | ||
| 12.30 | Lunch | |
| 13.30 | Considering the role of drug therapy in feline behavioural medicine | |
| Sarah Heath, UK | ||
| 14.15 | Maternal and sexual behaviour problems in cats | |
| Katherine Houpt, US | ||
| 15.00 | Happy healthy cats—the balance between health and socialisation | |
| Sarah Heath, UK | ||
| 15.30 | End | |
