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Abstract
Rearing kittens involves striking a balance between meeting the behavioural needs of individuals and ensuring their physical health. It is well accepted that vaccination is an important part of preventive medicine, and socialisation and habituation can be considered as important parts of the process of ‘vaccinating’ against behavioural disorders.
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Sarah Heath
Sarah Heath BVSC DipECVBM-CA MRCVS
Sarah qualified as a vet from Bristol University and spent four years in mixed general practice before setting up a behaviour medicine referral practice in 1992. She is an honorary lecturer in small animal behavioural medicine at Liverpool University Veterinary school and a Certified Clinical Animal Behaviourist under the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour accreditation scheme.
Sarah was an external tutor on the Postgraduate Diploma/MSc course in Companion Animal Behaviour Counselling at Southampton University from the inception of the course until 2008. She is immediate past president of the European Society for Veterinary Clinical Ethology and, in 2002, became a Founding Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Behavioural Medicine — Companion Animals, serving as its president from 2002 to 2008.