Thursday, January 1, 2009

Anxious Cat Problems

Animal separation anxiety disorder ends up being a huge and tough to deal with hassle for dogs and their owners, in the same way that obsessive-compulsive grooming or spraying can be for cats who are under this stress and their owners. Why did I bring up these two obviously unconnected disorders? You’ll see in just a moment just specifically what it is that links the mentioned concerns and what really they look to as potential cures and methods to fix the situation. One shouldn’t want to let a continuing pattern of destructive behavior to proceed and create concerns both for your little friends and yourself.

Dog Separation Anxiety

Separation anxiety for dogs can be quite a bothersome concern. Dogs are extremely socially focused animals and depend greatly on the comfort of a pack for all social relationships. As pet owners, people end up being the lead dog in your pack and will thus be as the leader. Usually in today’s busy existence, those pack alpha dogs wander away and abandon the dogs separated by themselves for much of the day. Animals separation anxiety reveals itself by means of several well clear and increasingly troubling symptoms. Starting off with barking, over-salivating, and hyperventilation, it will quickly end up into further stages of inappropriate pooping and / or urination, eating furnishings, and attempting to escape and re-join the pack on their own. This will of course not be successful and cause noticably more stress for the poor dog.

Obsessive Compulsive Grooming Disorder

Anxiety concerns in cats are of a different nature. Cats are generally independent of their people, but social relationship concerns often still arise. Cats get rather territorial or aggressive, so they may have issues both during moving from a familiar home to a new, unfamiliar location, or anxiousness due to aggressive felines either in the neighborhood or the home. Feline anxiety can also show up as obsessive compulsive grooming behaviors, where the cat over cleans themselves and actually turns out to clean off patches of their fur!

Clomipramine

Clomipramine for dogs is a promising cure to just these kinds of concerns. In the same way as people and their anxiety disorders, pets may get treated with medicines for the exact array of disorders. Basically, we’re talking about pet prozac. Medications in the vein of Clomipramine work to help take the edge off from the animal’s stress, allowing you time and breathing space to find a resolution for the actual underlying issues. Effects of Clomipramine can include drowsiness, dizziness, dehydration, weakness, constipation or loss of appetite, so you need to be sure your animal gets lots to drink and you watch them closely for a bit. They definitely can’t tell you in plain English if they’re not feeling well. Clomipramine dogs are happy and healthy animals!

 

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