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Tip of the Week: Learn a New Feline Behavior Assessment
August 11, 2025, The Association
Toronto Humane’s free virtual 8-lesson training module
This free online training encompasses response to petting, adapted fear, anxiety, and stress, and participation in play in cats. Proficiency will be assessed after each module.
Shares program developer Jacklyn Ellis, MRes PhD CAAB CSB-C, “Ultimately, this system has been instrumental in our ability to improve the lives of our cats and get them into adoptive homes much more quickly.”
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Worked volunteering at Animal Protection Society in Durham, NC, 2018, 2017. It was my first time working in a shelter. I am a cat guy and brought the cats music when I visited them. I would say I was able to help socialize 30 to 40 cats in that two hours. I used gentle music including classical.(piano and guitar are favorites). I learned this from playing music at home and noticing my cats responses. A resource I use now at home daily with my five cats is WCPE.org. “The Classical Station”. The music enriches their lives too. LOVE. PEACE. God Bless