A Michael Broad Blog
You can read lots about the benefits of a commercially available cat pheromone called Feliway®. It must be the most widely used commercially available product on the market to help calm cats in a multi-cat environment or perhaps in a home where there are one or two cats and one is “misbehaving”. And it …
Here is an infographic on this new product from Beaphar with some more articles on this topic at the base of the article. It is called: Beaphar CatComfort® Excellence (note: ‘cat’ & ‘comfort’ are meant to be together 😃). It is different in that it contains two pheromones for added efficacy. I’ve not tried …
Anxiety is a massive issue with domestic cats. It is often a hidden condition because cats hide their anxiety and sometimes their caregiver is insufficiently involved with their cat to recognise it. But if a cat is hiding a lot and behaves in a fearful way, he/she will be feeling anxious. And you can …
There are two clear, major possible reasons why a domestic cat might be peeing because there is either a new baby, new dog, new cat or anything else that is new in the home and the reasons are (1) idiopathic cystitis and (2) spraying to mark territory. Idiopathic cystitis Idiopathic cystitis is exacerbated by …
Yes, Feliway works. Feliway is a well known synthetic cheek-pheromone spray which it is claimed has proved effective in double-blind studies. It is used to treat problems rooted in anxiety in domestic cats such as urine marking in multi-cat homes and to calm cats when transported in a carrier to a veterinary clinic or …
Researchers from the University of Lincoln, Professor Daniel Mills and Dr Miriam Prior, a veterinarian, explored the effects of two commercial pheromone products, Feliway Friends and Adaptil on cat-dog interactions. The study lasted six weeks and their findings are published in the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science. The scientists concluded that there were fewer …
Bleach or sodium hypochlorite is also good for killing feline viruses! Some cats like the smell of bleach even though generally cats dislike the smell of cleaning chemicals. Some cats get high on the smell of bleach as if it is catnip. There appears to be no chemical link between the chemical in catnip …
We know about feline facial pheromones which are facial secretions. The chemical components of these pheromones have been analysed. They are almost entirely made up of ‘acids’ interestingly. There are five facial pheromones. Chemical components of the feline facial secretions: F1 – Oleic acid, caproic acid, trimethylamine, 5-aminovaleric acid, n-butyric acid, a-methylbutyric acid F2 …
