Rescue remedy for cats/Anya - Feliway

[Guest guest]

> Hi Jen

> There is thing I can recommend, and of course, YMMV. I found out about a

> synthetic cat hormone called Feliway when a cat was having a marking

> problem. The vet said all stress-related problems can be alleviated

> (sometimes) with this stuff. There are little spray bottles, and a

> diffuser. It sounds like you need the spray. You are supposed to spray

> their carrier to lessen their anxiety. The stuff comes with instructions

> (my fave: don't spray it on the cat.)

>

> The best prices are at valleyvet.com

> HTH.

>

> Anya

> http://member.newsguy.com/~herblady

 

Hi Anya,

 

Have it. Had a bottle from back in the day when Finny decided

spraying the house with his urine was his favorite form of stress

relief. I was up visiting my vet friend the other day (OT, but

Rex had an abnormal ultrasound, and now needs a kidney biopsy to rule

out Lymphosarcoma - don't get me started on my worries about THAT.)

and it looks like Feliway now makes a " plug in " type thing, not unlike

a glad plug air freshener.

 

I thought that is a great thing for vets to be doing, to alleviate a

cat's stress in the vet office - but then again, my vet friend can do

no wrong by me - he's the best.

 

Feliway is great for all manner of things, anxiety, spraying, litter

box issues, inter-cat aggression... as I am sure you know. I plan

to douse that carrier and myself in it before we go.

 

The power of phermones and hormones on animals is NOT to be

underrated. Once, I was assisting in a artificial insemination for a

pair of hound dogs, and happened to get " eau de estrus " i.e. canine

estrogen and assorted phermones, all over me. We drop a few drops of

it on the rear end of the bitch when the stud is " reluctant. " I

didn't think much about it - we can't smell it - and went on home that

evening. When I got out of my car and started walking up the hill,

every freaking male dog in the neighborhood came charging up to me and

er... started humping my legs, and any other part of my body they

could get to. My roomate at the time thought it was rather funny, as

she watched me struggle through this pack of canine lotharios to the

safety of the house. <g>

 

From then on I was rather a favorite with the neighborhood dogs....

 

I have a few other stories of canine reproductive procedures gone

amusingly wrong (for me at least.) Any time anyone gets depressed,

email me and I'll tell you about how fun it is to manually collect

specimins from intact male dogs. LOL!!

 

JenB