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Montgomery County SPCA
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Serving Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC since 1973

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Informational Fact sheets about your pet

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The MCSPCA has a fact sheets available about a wide range of topics.  The fact sheets are designed to help better understand behavioral issues in dogs and cats, as well as specific dog and cat training issues.  These fact sheets are available free of charge!   Unfortunately, we cannot make them available on the web, but we would be happy to mail you the fact sheets that interest you.  Please use the list below to indicate which fact sheets you would like to read, give us your name and address, and we'll put them in the mail as soon as possible.  If you have urgent need for help with your animal, please contact your vet and an animal behaviorist right away.

We have limited resources, so we must limit the number of fact sheets to 3 for each order. 
Please select no more than 3 fact sheets.

First, we need your name and address because we will need to send these fact sheets to you in the mail.
Name:
Street:
City, State, Zip:
Email Address:
Fax: If you have a fax number we could send this sheets to, please indicate it here:

Please select up to 3 fact sheets

Behavior Topics - Dogs and Cats

Aggression in dogs and cats: introduction
Behavior: causes and diagnosis of problems
Behavioral drug therapy with release form
Behavior management products
Behavior resources: books, associations, etc.
Behavior modification: reducing fear and anxiety — desensitization, counter-conditioning, flooding
Behavior problems of older pets
Children and pets
Compulsive disorders
Fears, phobias and anxieties
Rewards: learning and reinforcement
Selecting a pet

Canine Topics

Aggression: diagnosing and treating
Aggression: dominance
Aggression: sibling rivalry
Aggression: other dogs
Barking
Biting: play biting and mouthing
Coprophagia (stool eating)
Destructiveness: chewing
Destructiveness: digging
Excitable and disobedient dogs (and attention deficit disorders)
Fears and phobias: animals and people
Fears and phobias: noises and places
House-soiling
Housing your pet safely
--Crate-training puppies
--Crate-training adults
Neutering
Play and exercise
Pulling, chasing, jumping up
Punishment
Puppy: getting started – house training guide
Puppy: training basics
Puppy training: taking charge
Separation anxiety
Socialization of the new puppy
Stealing: teaching "give"
Teaching: sit, down, stand, stay
Teaching: come, wait, follow

Feline Topics

Aggression: diagnosing and treating
Aggression: play
Aggression: redirected
Aggression Territorial: introducing a new cat to the household
Destructiveness: chewing, etc.
Fear in cats - fear of people, other animals and places
House-soiling: inappropriate elimination
House-training
Marking (spraying)
Neutering
Nocturnal activity, excessive
Play, investigation and cat proofing
Punishment
Scratching (and declawing)
Socialization of the new cat
Vocalization, excessive

Once you have indicated all the fact sheets you want, click this button!


If you have any questions, please email us and we'll answer you as soon as possible!  You can call the MCSPCA at 301-948-4266.   For info on how to write to us, see our contact page.
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