Cats also suffer stress!

Cats also suffer stress!

: London, Oct 27 : A new study carried out by animal experts at the Edinburgh University has revealed that cats can also suffer from stress-related illness, similar to humans.

According to the researchers, rivalry with another cat is the biggest source of feline anxiety followed by moving home or the arrival of a new member of the owner's family.

The authors of the study compared a group of 55 cats, 31 with bladder problems and 24 healthy animals, in the same house with 125 other cats.

The results of the study showed that sick cats generally got more stressed by other cats in the house.


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They get a very worried look on their face if you are 10 minutes late feeding them

starts meowing at me and following me around, another starts running from room to room.They are very tuned into routine and what you are supposed to do at specified times (in their humble opinions).

Cats derive their security from their surroundings - dogs from their companions. When you change the surroundings - move furniture, remodel, or relocate - cats get all wound up.

Dogs, on the other hand, don't mind any of that stuff generally. They get stressed out when you leave them alone or someone new moves in or someone moves out.

when he gets upset--especially when I'm late coming home or when I go out

he wants me home with him

I know it's psychological. We've taken him to the vet when he did this before. He looks right at me while he pees on something! He gets very upset sometimes, but it's not anger. It's emotional neediness, I think. I can't be home that much right now. We're retraining him by keeping him in a restroom with a catbox in the bathtub. It worked last time--for a few months anyway.

jealousy to....The vets make millions off this every year because the first thing they want to do is "rule out" if anything physical is going on, blah, blah, blah. A few hundred or thousand bucks later and multiple visits to the vet, the cat either stops on his own or continues. I have a 15 year old who has done this off and on his entire life. A dog walking across the lawn 50 feet away from the house is enough to set this cat to peeing all over that side of the house for 3 months straight. Going on a business trip can set it off.
Sometimes they just have to mark their territory.

One big bully and two others that get bullied! I hate it. I just started trying something new though. I have been giving a lot of attention to the BULLY to see if that would calm him down. Before I was giving more attention to the other two because I felt so bad for them. Not sure how this is going to work out yet but the BULLY seems to love that attention. Maybe he sensed that I was doating on the others and that is why he was being mean to them?

I also believe in catnip! I find that if I give them all catnip they get along just fine for a while!

judicious application of mild corticosteroids to the less-aggressive cats can be a major benefit.

important points:

small doses @ week intervals will NOT make these meaker cats aggressive or combative, just confident enough the aggressor will sense it. aggressive cats usu pick on meaknessl schoolyard bullies. they won't bug cats w/ confidence.

steriods do NOT affect cats in the same way they do humans, the adverse affects are minute, even in heavily dosed cats. this is a safe treatment that i have used on several occasions w/ excellent results!

5 mg of prednisone 1ce weekly for 3 weex shd do the trick. i do feral rescue; several of my housecats are reclaimed ferals; hence, tough mofos!

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as they are a major contributor to the development of feline diabetes.