Our Birmingham Hub for Clinical Animal Behaviour

I have been very impressed with Zoe and her team at Second Nature and now they see all my behaviour referrals. Their client communication, follow up support and their passion for what they do is wonderful. As a referring vet, i want my clients to feel happy with whom I have referred them to and I can honestly say every one has been very pleased!

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 then lots of practical advice, written advice, follow up calls and solutions have followed. The issue is much improved and we continue to talk about ways to make my cat's experience and mine better. It is an affordable service. I sincerely wish that I would have approached as soon as the behaviour began. Part of the process is my cat having a health assessment with the vet before her consultation, and this was a wonderful thing because he did have some health needs. Zoe really benefitted from understanding his physical health needs to give us the best advice. Zoe even helped us to learned clicker training! My cat loves it. D. Adams and @finnlefang (on instagram)

For the last year, Dr. Zoe Demery has been working with me and my dog Bella on separation anxiety and reactivity. I moved from the USA to the UK and back to the USA, and Zoe has stayed in touch and continued to coach me on how to improve Bella's behavior and make her life less stressful. From the moment Bella and I met Zoe, I could tell she was a true animal lover and cared about Bella. As we worked together, I saw the depth of knowledge that Zoe has. She understands dogs and how they think and her positive-reinforcement training methods are very successful. She gave me a very thick workbook that has so many training ideas, not only for the issues that Bella struggles with, but also other fun things I can teach her. Zoe, I really appreciate you sticking with me and Bella even though we moved far away. You are absolutely the best!

Our vet referred our dog, Trigger, to Dr Zoe Demery after we noticed a change in his behaviour. He had begun to show signs of fear anxiety with other dogs, including, barking, lunging and running at them. Zoe helped us to understand Trigger’s body language and taught us lots of tips and tricks to deal with his behaviour and to help him to return to his previously calm self. We can’t recommend her highly enough - we have our old dog back!

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 👍

If you're looking for someone to sort out your pet's behaviour, that you know it's weird and don't have a clue why he's acting like he is, then contact Zoe. Zoe has been amazing and gone the extra mile with us. From diagnosing our newfie with anxiety to putting in practice an action plan but above all, always telling us the truth, even if it means saying to us that Nala's behaviour will take a long time to fix. Zoe has always been there to listen to my worries and to be updated on Nala's progress. I wish I had contacted Zoe a long time ago. There's still a long way ahead but every penny has been worthy and every effort put into changing Nala's behaviour (and I mean, a lot of effort - unfortunately sometimes having a dog is not only letting him out for toilet and feeding twice a day) has been made knowing we have Zoe to direct us (or change course) on the best approach.