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Me-OUCH: Helping Aggressive Cats-Part 2 - Making up is Hard to Do: Aggression to Other Cats
Part 2: Making up is Hard to Do: Aggression to Other Cats Part two looks at aggression between cats in the home: play vs. non-play-based aggression, how each presents, assessing underlying mechanisms, and how medical and behavioral treatments can create peace in the home.
Meet the instructor
Mary Malloy
After much studying and encouragement from her ASPCA mentors, Mary completed a Cat Behavior Consulting mentorship through the IAABC, and in 2017 added feline behavior consultations to her practice.
When not seeing private clients, Mary works as a Cat Behavior Counselor for the Anti-Cruelty Behavior Team at the ASPCA. She also assists adopters from NYC Animal Care and Control and volunteers at quarterly adoption events to help new pet adopters with their behavior and training questions. You can also find her at vet offices and community groups around NYC giving talks about canine and feline body language and running community dog classes and kitten socialization classes whenever and wherever she can.
Meet the instructor
Dr. E’Lise Christensen, DVM, DACVB
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. E’Lise Christensen DVM is a board-certified veterinary behaviorist and an international lecturer and author. Dr. C received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Iowa State University in 2002. She first became interested in veterinary behavior as a high school student when she worked at a veterinary practice and began training animals for pet therapy at a local substance abuse facility. While in veterinary school she researched separation anxiety in shelter dogs, was an assistant trainer at an animal shelter, and studied with numerous board-certified veterinary behaviorists.