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Cat Behaviour Problems

We understand how distressing cat behaviour problems can be for owners. Cats are sensitive animals who can become easily stressed by changes in their home and/or local neighbourhood environment, and this can have a knock-on effect for the whole household.

Feeling stressed is a common contributing factor for the display of feline behaviour problems. From aggression to toileting in the home, our cat behaviourists provide expert advice and support with your cat’s behaviour concerns.

Our feline behaviourists can visit you in your home or provide you with a virtual behaviour consultation. Our feline behaviour experts cover the West Midlands, including Birmingham, Coventry, Stoke-on-Trent, Telford and surrounding areas.

Why Choose Us to Support You and Your Cat

Living with a cat who is struggling with behaviour can be confusing, upsetting, and often overwhelming. Cat behaviour problems can affect the whole household, and it’s not always easy to know where to turn for reliable, compassionate help. At Second Nature, we take the time to truly understand both you and your cat, so you feel supported every step of the way.

We provide cat behaviour consultations for a wide range of cat behaviour problems, including indoor toileting and spraying, aggression towards people or other cats, anxiety, fear-related behaviour, and conflict between cats in the home. Our feline behaviourists focus on understanding the underlying causes of your cat’s behaviour, rather than offering quick fixes, allowing us to create practical, welfare-led solutions that last.

All of our cat behaviourists are accredited Clinical Animal Behaviourists (CABs) or Certificated Clinical Animal Behaviourists (CCABs). They are thoroughly assessed and work to the highest professional standards. We are members of organisations such as the Fellowship of Animal Behaviour Clinicians (FABC) and are registered with the Animal Behaviour & Training Council (ABTC). As a result, many clients are able to claim our cat behaviour consultation fees through their pet insurance, or arrange for insurers to pay us directly.

Second Nature is also a vet-led team. Our behaviourists work closely with veterinary behaviourists to ensure that potential medical factors are carefully considered alongside behaviour. Where appropriate, our veterinary behaviourists can review your cat’s case and liaise directly with your own vet, ensuring a joined-up, compassionate approach to your cat’s wellbeing.

If you’d like to explore how we can help you and your cat, you can book a cat behaviour consultation through our website, or contact us for a friendly, no-pressure chat about the next steps.

Book a Behaviour Consultation

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Common Feline Behaviour Problems

Fears and Anxieties

Toileting and Spraying Issues

Inter-cat Relationships

Excessive Repetitive Behaviours

Aggression Towards Humans

Cat Behaviour Consultations

The best option for most cat behaviour problems is a home visit 2 hours’ consultation on referral from the veterinary surgeon. This includes a tailor-made report sent to you after the initial consultation, a follow-up session, as well as optional weekly check-ins via calls, WhatsApp text or email for 6 weeks.

Prices for our cat home visits are dependent upon how far you are from us and who you would like to lead your consultation.

Some feline issues may be appropriate for our clinic consultations. We also offer virtual video consultations for cats around the around.

You can book an appointment through our web site, or give us a buzz to chat through things further.

Invest £540

Get expert help from one of our feline behaviourists.

Or, fancy a £330 discount?

Book a supervised consult to allow a budding behaviourist to lead your consultation under the watchful eye of one of our senior behaviourists.

Or

Claim on pet insurance

Did you know? You may be able to pay for our pet behaviour services through your pet insurance. We accept direct insurance claims for our pet behaviour consultations through select insurance companies.

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Otis, Grace & Dom

Zoe is fantastic and spotted solutions with our cat Otis straightaway. He’d bite calves in the morning, hurrying us along for breakfast and would swipe and latch onto feet and arms and bite and rake at us aggressively. He was chewing plastic and thin cables. We’d tried many approaches without success. Zoe stepped in, observed

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Finn & Deborah

Zoe has been really down to earth, approachable, and persistent – even at those times, I was ready to give up. I had a longstanding worry with my male cat urinating in the house and vocalising a lot. I was overwhelmed. This was a complex situation. The home assessment and report was great, and then

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Harry & Phantom

Really thorough process – we felt you really took the time to understand us and the cats. We saw almost instant improvements with some of the strategies suggested. The second catflap on the first floor was a stroke of genius! Behaviour work is obviously ongoing because our cats at apparently extremely difficult individuals! But it’s

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Hettie, Lily & Chester

Zoe’s expertise and advice have been invaluable in helping our dog to settle at night due to separation anxiety and overcoming tricky interactions with our two cats. We have followed her advice along with great feedback and ongoing support from Zoe and our dog is now much improved! Highly recommended for tricky behavioural issues. Thank

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Charlie & Milo

The help you have given us has been so useful with our two cats who weren’t getting along. It has enabled us to make some changes which appear to be gradually helping the cats live more happily. The continued support and contact have worked well for us. Thank you, Angela.

Marley & Elaine

It has been a comfort knowing that if I needed any more advice, you were always there. Marley is doing amazingly compared to how he was, he still sprays on new items when I bring them into the house, but has not sprayed anywhere for many many months. Without your help and advice, I do

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Billie, Tammy & Mary

Zoe, I can’t thank you enough for all your help and support with my cats. Your advice has been invaluable. The problems with my cats eased so much, as I was at my witts end. I would highly recommend you to anyone that has problems with their pets. Thanks again. Mary

Abs Casaus

We have two naughty cats that we would have had to separate if it wasnt for Zoe’s help. She is friendly, supportive and created a pragmatic plan to try to get them to coexist. We have had huge progress and recommend highly to anybody having pet behavioural issues 👍

Sarah Pittaway

Zoe has been an amazing help in integrating our two fractious felines. The whole process has been really thorough and we felt that she took the time to get to know both of us and our cats. We had some immediate ‘quick wins’ from her initial recommendations and she’s been there to support us and

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D Adams

I had a longstanding worry with my male cat urinating in the house and vocalising a lot. I was overwhelmed. This was a complex situation and Zoe has been really down to earth, approachable, and persistent – even at those times I was ready to give up. The home assessment and report was great, and

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Mary Wilde

We were a little apprehensive going to the meeting with Zoe, but we shouldn’t have been as she quickly made us feel at ease, Alfie settled quickly too. Everything Zoe has suggested from closing the kitchen blind so Alfie can’t see the children next door to more complex training has helped enormously. I realise there

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Ry Disney

Zoe has been incredible and so helpful for my cats, and has genuinely created a calmer and happier home for them and myself. One of my cats used to urinate on my bed daily, sometimes multiple times a day. Within our first session together back in September she gave some advice on things to change/adjust/accommodate,

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Neil Harrison

Elaine and Marley

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