Ashland & Framingham Library Hosting Feline Behaviorist Monday

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FRAMINGHAM – The Ashland and Framingham public libraries have teamed up to offer a Zoom presentation on Decoding the Mysteries of Cats on Monday night, April 11.

Stephen Quandt, a feline behaviorist, will explain cat behavior from the perspective of the evolutionary and adaptive forces that shape their lives. Afterwards there will be a Q&A session.

Register for Zoom Link: http://bit.ly/FPL-Events

This presentation pulls together and interrelates:

• Cats’ relationship to hunting and resting through the cycle of predation that can lead to “drive-by” ankle biting, play aggression, early morning wake up, and food aggression, as some examples.
• Their sense of identity in being a predator or being prey on the confidence scale that can lead to similar behaviors but can also result in fearful cats, victimized cats (cat on cat aggression), fear aggression, and redirected aggression.
• Their relationship with us as influenced by the mother/kitten relationship that they experienced with their mother cat and that connects them to us through food needs, attention seeking, and their status with their most favored and/or least favored people
• And the relationship between hunger, appetite, metabolism, and exercise to all of the above!

Most recently Stephen Quandt worked as the Feline Behavior Coordinator at one of the largest animal shelters in the USA, the Animal Care Centers of NYC, where no animal is euthanized for space.

Prior, he spent 8 years with the APSCA in feline behavior and the Field Investigation and Response Team, and he’s been working with cats since 2002. Offline he’s given 100’s of behavior consults to members of the public who’ve had a cat behavior problem. His goal is to use compassion to help people and their cats. He’s Fear Free certified (see fearfreepets.com). Stephen is also currently a behavior consultant with many different veterinary and rescue organizations from New York to Memphis.

In partnership with Ashland Public Library and Cary Memorial Library.

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