We are pleased to partner with the Companion Animal Veterinarians Branch of NZVA for this webinar. This is a free webinar for NZVA members, but Companion Animals New Zealand will arrange free access to shelter staff who want to attend. Please email secretary@companionanimals.nz and we will register for you.

In this webinar we will introduce what a cat friendly interaction is, discuss feline emotions and how they need to be understood to create a cat centric approach to interacting with cats. This webinar will also contain lots of tips and tricks for handling cats and an introduction to ISFM’s Cat Friendly Clinic and International Cat Care’s Cat friendly Homing programmes. The content will be suitable for all people who work with cats, including veterinary professionals, shelter staff, groomers, pet sitters and cattery staff

Nathalie Dowgray
Nathalie graduated from Massey University, New Zealand in 2002. In 2012 she sat the Membership exams for the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in Feline Medicine and is a RCVS advanced Practitioner in Feline Medicine. She received a post graduate diploma in international animal welfare ethics and law from Edinburgh University in 2016 and completed a PhD in the ageing of cats at the University of Liverpool in 2021. Nathalie’s areas of interest are all things feline including feline health screening, musculoskeletal disease and age-related disease. Nathalie joined iCatCare as Head of ISFM in August 2020.