Does your cat drive you crazy enough to make you want to entrust it to your worst enemy?
He meows relentlessly or scratches your children's arms, urinates regularly and has been on your clothes for years?
Patience.
The life of city cats is not always limited to strolls on the roofs with soft sofas in living rooms.
They too feel your anxieties, are bored, feel persecuted or conversely too cuddled.
Sometimes even are simply "fed up" with you.
Situations in which a recent profession is interested and proposes to solve: behaviorist for urban cat.
A profession that is emerging but not necessarily known to everyone, chosen by a Strasbourg resident, Laëtitia Papirer (Lysaël).
However, nothing particularly pushed this young woman to leave the marketing and communications departments of the large groups with which she worked, apart from "her love of felines and especially cats"... Following a period of cat-sitting (from the cat sitter in their apartment), she had ended up giving up everything for this unusual but “very serious” retraining, after numerous training courses with specialists and a diploma in her pocket.
Since then, she has been working with individuals.
“In one out of two cases, they are exhausted, cornered, without a solution.
They can't do it on their own and end up calling in a behaviorist, says Laëtitia Papirer.
Crossing this threshold is already important, people are open to this stage.
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Analyze the “global chat environment”
"Two large families of behaviors" most often lead cat owners to contact a specialist, says Laëtitia Papirer.
“That of a problem with a cat that urinates everywhere, rarely in its litter box, on the sofa, on clothes.
Another category, aggressive behavior, between cats, on humans" but also, and "it's rarer, cats that will self-mutilate, pull out their hair, even be in depression to the point of no longer s 'feed.
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Concretely, the specialist explains to ensure “first that there is not, upstream, a medical cause for this behavioral disorder.
I am not a veterinarian, emphasizes Laëtitia Papirer.
There are also veterinarians who are also behaviorists, who do consultations in their offices.
His proposal?
"Translate the needs hidden behind these behaviors in order to put in place a lasting solution.
No fatality, therefore, but an approach with a positive and scientific method.
“And to achieve her goals, the behaviorist goes to the homes of people who use her services, in order to “know the environment in which the cat evolves.
I spend three hours with the adopters (the owners of the cat), seeing the exchanges that there may be and everything that is in place, such as accessories,
litter, food.
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After an analysis made on site, of “the global environment of the cat, I really go into the analysis of the problem for which I am called.
Already to make sure it's "100% behavioral".
I then draw up an action plan to put in place, it's really tailor-made” assures the behaviourist.
This is followed by progress monitoring for a month, “with daily contact if necessary.
Generally, an appointment and a month of follow-up are enough to solve the problem.
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