Crista L. Coppola relocated from the ASPCA to open a private behavior consulting service. She currently sees cases both in Las Vegas, Nevada, her home town in Tucson, AZ and the Southwest area. Crista obtained her PhD in Animal Behavior with Temple Grandin at Colorado State University. Her dissertation work focused on reducing stress in shelter dogs while at the same time improving their chances for adoption, and is published in Physiology and Behavior journal and the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science. She has presented her work at meetings of the Animal Behavior Society, American Society for Animal Sciences, Interdisciplinary Forum for Applied Animal Behavior and International Conference on Environmental Enrichment. Dr. Coppola has also guest lectured at Colorado State University, Cornell University and Purdue University on companion animal behavior, and is currently adjunct faculty in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois.
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