Ingrid offers cat behavior consultations to help owners who may be having problems with their feline’s finicky behavior. Ingrid is a Certified Cat Behavior Consultant (CCBC) through the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants, an organization dedicated to providing continuing education and resources to animal behavior professionals and clients alike. She specializes in environmental enrichment as well as cats with litter box avoidance, aggression (human and animal directed), and inappropriate scratching problems. While these concerns are the most common reasons clients seek her assistance, Ingrid is able to help with a whole spectrum of cat behavior problems. Due to her background in veterinary medicine, she is also able to work side by side with your veterinarian to simultaneously address medical and behavioral components of a cat's behavior challenges.
Home video tour submissions for all cat behavior consultations are paramount to success. Seeing the home environment makes all the difference as it is often difficult to assess the “little things” that may be triggers for a cat's behavior problem without seeing the environment first. Phone consultations are offered to clients worldwide and include two months of follow-up advice and support. Fees beyond this period are assessed on a case by case basis.
One of Ingrid’s specialties is environmental modification. Seeing the home allows her to help you make the home more appealing to your cat(s) and make things easier for the humans to manage, clean, maintain, etc. Additionally, Ingrid also provides consultations on feline friendly décor, or "catification", to meet your cat's needs with attractive interior design in mind. Custom built vertical space to attractively increase your feline’s usable territory is also available. Please come by Paws Whiskers and Claws to see her line of 100% sisal scratching posts, scratch ramps, scratch pads, balance beams and feline foraging toys (a.k.a. food puzzles) and custom made litter boxes. There you can get a view the hospital's vertical space that was installed for the clinic cats.
Behavior Consultation
Ingrid will view the video tour of your home to see where your cat’s basic needs are located and where any problems are taking place. If your cat is eliminating outside the litter box, inappropriately scratching, or having conflict, be sure to point out those areas.
Ingrid will direct you to visual aides to view while on the call to demonstrate how to successfully treat your cat's behavior problems. Often, you will be able to see immediate success! She will explain why the issues are occurring and will give you a behavior modification plan to solve the problem(s) as well as some literature about your cat’s specific issue. Your family is encouraged to ask questions and take notes, but the literature will act as a reminder of what you discuss during the consultation.
It’s important to note that you will only have success in treating your cat's behavior problem if your family is willing to implement the recommended plan and environmental changes. The more open-minded and willing to work on challenges you are, the more successful the behavior modification plan will be. The problem will rarely be solved by doing one lone task.
Creating a successful behavior modification plan involves assessing your cat’s physical and mental state as well as the home environment. Ingrid may recommend that your cat visit the vet prior to the cat behavior consultation.
Medicating Consultations
This service is for both seasoned cat parents and those new to the fantastic world of felines! In fact, one of the very best aspects of this service is that Ingrid will teach you to train your cats to willingly accept their medications before they even need any! Preventative medicating consults are a good idea. Regardless of your situation and skill level Ingrid will offer a myriad of solutions.
Ingrid has more than 25 years' experience medicating cats in both the home and vet clinic setting. She lectures on this topic teaching vets and technicians the same techniques she'll teach you. Whether it is oral medication you are struggling to administer, ointments, eye drops, SQ injections or you need to learn how to take your cat’s blood sugar (BG) reading or perhaps you would like to know how to more effectively give subcutaneous fluids, and learn to do so in less stressful manner, Ingrid is here to help!
Vertical Space
If you are interested in custom built vertical space for your felines or a home consultation on how to best "catify" your current space to meet your cats needs please contact Fundamentally Feline for a home evaluation. We offer design help worldwide, custom installations are reserved for the metro Atlanta area only.
Litter Box Cutting Service
Since there are precious few commercially available litter boxes that are of appropriate size we also offer the service of cutting and sanding the opening to our ideal litter boxes.
