Cone of Shame Episode 7: Scarf and Barf Cats (HDYTT)
In this episode of the Cone of Shame Veterinary Podcast, Dr. Andy Roark sits down with feline behavior consultant Ingrid Johnson to talk about cats that eat too fast and then throw up. There’s a pet owner in exam room 2 who wants you to tell her how to stop her beloved feline from puking all the time. So… How do you treat that?
Cone of Shame Episode 10: There’s A Cat Who Is Destroying The Furniture – HDYTT?
There’s a cat in exam room 3 who will NOT stop destroying furniture. The owner is about to give the cat up or find someone who will declaw it. It’s YOUR case! How do you treat that??
Cone of Shame Episode 20: My Cats are Fighting and Peeing Outside the Box
This week on the cone, Ingrid Johnson, CCBC, is back!!! She’s talking litter boxes and fighting between cats. Gang… she dropped knowledge that I honestly did not have. This is a great and wildly useful episode. Check it out!!
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ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Ingrid Johnson is a Certified Cat Behavior Consultant (CCBC) through The International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants (IAABC). She is employed at Paws Whiskers and Claws, a feline-only veterinary hospital and has been working exclusively with cats since 1999.
Ingrid operates Fundamentally Feline, providing in-home and phone consultations for clients experiencing behavior challenges with their cat(s). In addition to behavior consultations, Ingrid publishes educational content on her site, but also manages Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages, makes her own line of feline foraging toys, scratching posts and vertical space, and litter boxes. She lectures on cat behavior at veterinary conferences such as AAFP, VMX, ACVC and the like.
In the Fall of 2016 a paper she co-authored, Food puzzles for cats: Feeding for physical and emotional well-being, was published in the JFMS and to compliment it she co-developed a website called FoodPuzzlesforCats.com. Ingrid’s home, cats, and environmental enrichment expertise has been featured on Animal Planet’s Cats101 show. She filmed for the website WebMD and has created a series of educational How-To videos of her own, viewable on Fundamentally Feline’s website. She is Co-Director of Paw Project-Georgia, working towards ending the cruel practice of de-clawing cats.
Cat Fancy magazine’s 2008 “Home Issue” showcased her feline-friendly accommodations and the aesthetically pleasing ways you can provide for your cat’s innate basic needs while still having a home the humans can enjoy. Ingrid shares her home with her husband Jake, seven rescue cats, and Sebastian, a rescued Great Pyrenees Dog.