Feline Behaviour

Feliway And What It Can Do For Your Cat

Feliway is the legendary pheromone which works on a cat's sense of smell, and tells your cat "I don't pee in this naughty place anymore.
Feliway Spray is a chemical copy of a pheromone which has a calming effect over the cat this helps to reduce stress and the subsequent scent marking as the cat's impulse to claim its territory is reduced. To help calm cats you could use a Feliway diffuser. This is a plug in device which emits a pheromone that calms cats like the spray, but, instead, the scent is spread around the full area.
Feliway is a safe solution of the feline F2 facial pheromone, which mimics the cat's natural pheromones, creating a state of well-being and calm.

Facial pheremone rubbing is a well known behavourWhen a cat feels safe, it rubs its head from the side of the chin to the base of the ear, against the furniture, the corners of walls or the bottom of curtains. By doing this, the animal is depositing facial pheromones. These marks convey a message of well-being and a feeling of security.
When there is a change in the cat's environment (such as going to the vets, return from an operation, moving house, new arrivals, rearrangement of furniture) or if the cat is scared, a state of disquiet or stress may develop. This state can be expressed by changes in behaviour, such as urine marking, vertical scratching, loss of appetite or refusal to play and to interact.
In these situations, The Feliway spray and diffuser together can be used to restore the natural balance.
Multi Cat Household coupled with using Feliway spray helps cats who may not love the idea of living with other cats get along and stop fighting.

Feline Stress & Urine Spraying

Cats are territorial animals. They mark out their territory using Many different of visual and scent signals.Changes in the environment (such as going to the vets, return from an operation, moving house, new arrivals, rearrangement of furniture) arisation marks; making them anxious and causing stress.
The most likely reaction to this anxiety is a change in the frequency or type of marking. Unfortunately for the owner, this often results in the onset of urine spraying and or scratch marking around the house. These signs are worse in multicat Family where tension can occur between animals and lead to intercat aggression.

Urine Spraying & Scratch Marking

It should be noted that urine marking and scratching are NORMAL behaviour for the cat, it worsens when the cat feels stressed of threatened. Transport too is a challenging situation for cats and it can show various emotional signs such as agitation, miaowing, vomiting...signs of stress in cats are easily identified
Urine Spraying

Feline urine spraying is one of the primary methods Cat mark out there territory this way if its male or female, neutered or non neutered, it is exhibited by almost every cat that goes outside. But while outdoor urine marking may be acceptable, most owners find the behaviour hard to standin the home due to the strong smell and potential hygiene risks.
Urine marking is a very specific behavioural sequence where the cat adopts a easy to recognise posture:

- it approaches a vertical surface (wall, item of furniture...
- it sniffs the surface, treads the floor, then he turns his back,
- and standing with his tail erected,
During urine spraying behaviour, the cat stands up and marks of urine are generally small and seen above the ground. Urine on the floor, large volumes of urine or urine in the sleeping area are typically not signs of urine marking.

There are many different kinds of scratching. Scratching horizontal surfaces when waking up, during play or sexual excitation. Scratching on vertical surfaces to keep claws in trim,scratching on vertical surfaces to send a signal. Only this can be qualified as a marking behaviour.

How to tell the difference between the two ? If the cat is targeting only one or two specific sites in the home, usually in hidden or otherwise discreet areas, it is likely it is keeping its claws in shape for Catching mice. If the scratching becomes worse particularly in visible areas around doorways and windows,stairs and landings or is centred on prominent objects such as a settee,or chairs, then this may be an sign that the cat is unsettled and his level of anxiety increased. As a result, he starts scratch marking to increase the number of visual and scent signals in the immediate environment.

To help calm your cat or put an end to scratch marking and urine marking try Feliway today

About the Author

Im henry, i have 4 cats fluffy, tea, tequila and boots and love them very much, my interests are cats!!! football and walking i tend to walk every weekend.

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