I have now resigned from offering veterinary behaviour services and will be shutting down this website and my email address at the end of April 2025.

The current replacement for my services is the lovely Dr Caroline Thursfield (visiting Hobart regularly from Melbourne). Please find her contact details and further information here: Dr Caroline Pet Behaviour Vet

I wish to thank you all for seeking my support, for being such lovely clients and most importantly, for being such caring, supportive and sympathetic champions for your loved pets. You and your pets have taught me a great deal, and reinforced the importance to me, about the human-animal bond and how this can intertwine many lives, both human and non-human, and have ripple effects throughout society.

This is an area in which I will never cease to maintain involvement. I will also continue to learn about and be involved with issues such as quality of life, ethics, values and beliefs, animal law and welfare. Although you may not realise it, you are all playing an important part in the recognition of both animal sentience and the vast capabilities of our non-human allies, an area that is burgeoning in research, especially over the last 30 years, which has been my time as a vet.

My final words as I sign off from this website, which holds so many memories  (see a few of the wonderful revolutionaries in behavioural medicine and animal learning/welfare I have met through my career - view the gallery):

‘If we don’t continue caring, there’ll be nothing left to care about’.

My thankfulness, Bye!  XXX