Anxiety and stress

The anxiety in the animal is considered according to Pageat as a pathological state and is defined as ?a reaccional state characterized by an increase of the probability of outbreak of analogous emotional reactions in the one of the fear, in answer to any variation of the average interior or outside. It will be observed a disorganization of the automatic controls and a loss of adaptability any variation of environment?.

In the cat, the anxiety and stress intimately are related to the adaptation to a new situation like for example: a change, the arrival of a new mascot, birth of a baby or strange visits, bad relation with some member of the family, solitude, etc.
Also they exist causal like surgical disease, obesity, parasites, procedures, prolonged death of its tutor or trips. He is always advisable to consult the professional if the cause of the malaise of the cat is not produced by an annoyance caused by a disease or another upheaval of organic type, once discarded these possibilities will determine that the problem is comportamental.

Signs manifest in this state are agitation, expansion to pupilar, position enroscada, loss of hair, hygiene excessive (sicogénica dermatitis), aggressiveness, bearing of territory within house, depositions urinary or of matter fecal outside tray, Rolling Skin Syndrom, (wave which it rolls under the skin of ahead backwards), appears quite often in the manifestations of anxiety of the cat in department.
In some races like the Siamese and the Burman, they can bite in obsessive form wool or another type of weaves.

An anxious cat will be nervous, timid in the ground, the jadeo, the expansion to pupilar and the loss of hair is answers as opposed to a stresante situation.

A habitually placid and affectionate cat, in sudden form, can behave in aggressive form, scratching and biting its owner, if this happens, a good reason, can be that exists generally it is not well of health and he is annoying, if it is not thus, is as opposed to a behavior problem.
A cat also can become aggressive and destructive by single boredom when they remain long time and were customary to have a very near interaction with its tutor.

The cat can mark the territory within the house if it undergoes stress, caused by changes in the daily routine or by the arrival from another animal to the house, also this situation happens when a deep cleaning of the home or changes of furniture is executed and ?are washed? the feromonales marks that the cats make refregando their face (face marks) on determined places of the house, this type of marcaje inhibits to ?the more dirty? other than he is the one to tinkle in form of ?spray? vertical surfaces, when disappearing the face marks, the animal tends to replace it with emissions of tinkles, of that way ?recovers its territory?.

The cat defecates either tinkles outside the box and yes he is healthy, the cause will be due to look for that triggers that behavior, is not necessary to regañar nor to stick the animal, are due to offer the more sanitary trays, to place the food in the place that makes the depositions, all alternative tasks of aid until is the true cause of the comportamental pathology and it is eliminated or a correction of the leading factor is made.

The sicogénica dermatitis is caused by an exaggerated cleanliness, compulsive licking and mordisquiando continuously some zone of his body without reason it pretends some; this can originate problems of skin like dermatitis, eczemas, inclusively self-inflicted wound alopecia (zones without hair) and injuries that can get to be true self-inflicted wounds.

All these compulsive conducts must receive the treatment adapted for each case in individual and the situation in which it is developed, generally, the specialistic professional in etología (science that studies the behavior animal) altogether looks for a solution the problem by means of conductuales changes of the behavior with the tutor and it is complemented with the ansiolíticos drug administration that varies according to the comportamental pathology to treat.

Cubil of isolation or ?sanctuary?
Not to forget that the cats need ?their? place isolation where certain moments of the day or night, they wish to be single and relaxed in a place that feels like isolated prote'ge's and, generally, they choose high places and closed, if it is possible, a ?sanctuary? in some place of the house is due to construct to him where they feel like more comfortable and prote'ge's of noises, other animals, people, etc.
It must be a closed affluent cubil, in penumbra, sheltered and in a high place, one thinks that the cats prefer the high sites by the fact that more insurances feel, ?dominate? all the place and have one more a ampler vision of the atmosphere.
To the ?sanctuary? it is possible to be embellished with I touch decorative, to put some to him of its preferred toys, also this type of ?cave? can at some time help to the relaxation or hiding place of the cats that they feel like discomforts with the situation that happens in the house, as visits, children playing, noises, bricklayers, people that speak strong, movements of changes of furniture or new arrival of some household-electric one, celebrations, that is everything that breaks what they consider a ?home calm?, this prevention can help to avoid a situation of anxiety and stress, triggered by some of the reasons previously named.

 

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Pageat, P.: President of the G.E.C.A.F. (Groupe d'étude du comportement DES animaux familiers)
Translation: MVZ Stéphane Meder V.
Manual of the care of the Cat: Andrew Edney, Editorial Javier Vergara.
Menassé, V.: Libro of the Cat.
Encyclopedia the CAT: Publishing Planet - DeAgostini.

Author: MV Enrique L Fernandez De Vanna

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