Veterinary Support

For veterinary surgeons seeking additional behavioural input on complex or challenging cases.

This service provides structured veterinary behavioural input and collaborative clinical case discussion to support decision-making, case management, and client communication. It is designed to help first-opinion vets work through complex behaviour presentations with clear, welfare-focused guidance while maintaining the case within their practice where appropriate.

This is intended as a supportive, collaborative discussion between colleagues, recognising that behavioural cases can be complex and time-pressured within first-opinion practice.

• Clinical Case Review: Review of the full clinical history and behavioural information, including any relevant videos, reports, or previous investigations.

• Case Consultation: Up to a 60-minute Zoom or telephone case discussion to review the presentation in detail and work through clinical reasoning together.

• Diagnostic Support: Collaborative discussion to help differentiate between medical pathology, pain-related behaviour, and primary behavioural or emotional disorders, and to identify where further investigation may be indicated.

• Treatment Planning and Medication Guidance: Practical advice on behavioural first aid, environmental management, risk mitigation, and psychopharmacology options where appropriate. This may include discussion of medication choices such as fluoxetine or trazodone, expected timelines, client communication, and integration with behaviour modification strategies.

• Behaviour Strategy Guidance: Discussion of behaviour modification approaches and management strategies that can be implemented within first-opinion practice.

• Referral Triage: Clear, objective guidance on whether the case is suitable for continued in-house management, would benefit from structured behavioural referral, or may require multidisciplinary input.

• Client-Ready Guidance Sheets: Where helpful, concise evidence-based handouts can be provided that are suitable to share directly with clients (for example safe-haven guidance, medication information sheets, or structured management plans).

• Ongoing Support: Following the consultation, ongoing case support is available for two months, including up to four follow-up emails per month relating to the case. This allows for continued discussion as investigations progress, behaviour plans are implemented, or medication responses are monitored.

• Note: The primary veterinary surgeon retains full clinical responsibility for diagnosis, prescribing, and case management throughout.

If you would like to discuss whether a case may benefit from veterinary behavioural input, please do get in touch.