Human emotional aspects of pet aggression

Animal behaviour counsellors, or clinical animal behaviourists if you prefer, work with a variety of species from a range of taxa: birds, mammals, reptiles – both predators and prey species. Some of us work with several species, others confine ourselves to one or two; most commonly the cat and dog. However, we all work with one common species: the humans involved in the management of our animal clients, and it is this omnivorous, social, mammal which underlies the counselling aspect of our job. The human is the focus of this talk and its relationship to aggression in the non-human animals with which it shares its territory and home range