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Cats do not love people more than anything. For them to love a human more than food, water, or other cats is just the unique characteristic of that cat. As evolution goes on, we notice new features in anything newborn. In time, it’s likely cats will evolve to be friendlier by nature: it’s all in the DNA which cat breeders And bioengineering. Though cats have proven to show compassion, cats are like humans in many ways. Not all cats like all cats. Not all cats like their owners. Not all domestic cats do either, but still, we coexist with them for comfort, pest control, and fun, and they do the same, but for food. Food is always the drive.
El Niño, Norwegian Forest Cat, Living the good life
Working at Chicago Animal Care and Control, it was my duty to clean all the cat wards. When doing so, I realized how crazy, unpredictable, and “human-like.” every cat was. Some cats were mean, others scared, others trying to get me to take them, etc.; they are incredibly similar to human Beings personality-wise, and no two cats were the same. They have personalities. They think, and they feel.
Worried Cat
Cats are very manipulative, not necessarily in the wrong way, but like a baby crying for attention, they can lie, and they know how to get what they want and will care less if you disagree. While your dog might be your companion and love you regardless of circumstances, your cat is more like your roommate or best friend. No two human/cat bonds are the same. Dogs are all loving, and cats are all-knowing or self-serving (like humans). The main reason cats get along with humans is that we are shelter, comfort, safety, and we supply constant food and cuddle sources. Cats who don’t display affection for their humans haven’t run away because they don’t want to risk losing a stress-free life.
Snuggles
Angry cats are likely ungrateful for the attention. Loving cats want you to know they appreciate you. They may be extra loving (Especially when there is food involved) in a situation where they want action from you. Unlike puppies, cats are born with innate knowledge; they know that their claws are there to fight and that other cats are outside. Most cats choose the free food And shelter option.
Cats are independent carnivores. In the wild, they survive around three years. Domestic cats can live up to about 21 with new medical advances. They do not, however, “need” you but generally speaking, they’re pretty happy with their owners, or they’d escape/vandalize your home. That’s when you call a cat counselor. Real thing. If they are here to hunt and survive, that’s by nature why they need humans.
Suppose your cat loves you more than anything that means precisely that. You have an outstanding bond with your cat. My cat (http://Https://www.thetacocattalk.com/) and I, who I’ve had for eight years, get in fights with me. Not physical, but we get annoyed with each other. I don’t care for him sitting on my phone, and he doesn’t care for me not paying attention to him when he wants it.
Cats can rotate their ears to listen to many different noises. They can attend for prey and hear your gossip.
Cats are insanely mesmerizing, rude, and marvelous creatures (excellent rodent control), and they get along with humans more than they love humans more than anything. That is impossible because the cat loves itself more than anything. They are often confused with dogs regarding behavioral questions because they are domesticated wild animals (well, the dog is now artificial but descended from an extinct wolf), and they CAN coexist. Not all can, though. You wouldn’t consider your iguana to have a personality like your dog or cats (they have their personalities and behaviors)
How to Identify puppy farmla dog breeders and backyard breeders.
“Puppy mills are commercial breeding facilities that mass-produce dogs (and cats in cat mills) for sale through pet stores or directly to consumers through classified ads or the Internet. Roughly 90 percent of puppies in pet stores come from puppy mills.” – PAWS – resources puppy mills
PAWS › resources › puppy-mills
As horrible as puppy mills are, the ASPCA estimates that there are still more than 10,000 of them in the United States alone. If you want to make sure that your next puppy isn’t coming from a puppy mill, keep an eye out for the following ten signs:
The puppies come from out-of-state – particularly Midwestern states like Missouri and Illinois.
The puppy’s parents are not kept in the same facility, and you cannot see them before buying.
The breeder wants to meet somewhere else if you request a visit to their facility.
The facility offers several different breeds – reputable breeders focus on one or two species.
The breeder has multiple litters available at the same time.
Neither the parents nor the puppies have been appropriately vaccinated.
The breeder makes extreme promises about the puppy’s size, temperament, or other quality.
The puppies may smell like a kennel, and they are likely to have low coat quality.
The breeder doesn’t ask you to fill out any kind of contract or spay/neuter agreement.
The puppy is under eight weeks of age or appears to be much younger than the breeder claims.
Unfortunately, if something on this list is right about the puppy you are thinking about buying, a puppy mill breeder is unlikely, to be honest about it. For example, a puppy mill breeder might offer you papers and a license for your puppy, but if you look more closely, you may be able to tell that it is fake. If at any point the breeder doesn’t appear to be forthcoming about information regarding the puppy, its parents, or the breeding facilities, it is a big red flag. Not only should you avoid buying from this breeder, but you should also report him to the ASPCA or the Humane Society.
Buying a puppy from a pet store is a significant risk for several reasons. For one thing, many of the puppies sold in pet stores come from puppy mills, and it is straightforward to fake the papers or registration that pet store owners use to convince you that it is not so. If you want a puppy, consider adopting from a shelter or go through a reputable breeder.
Dogs NaturallyMagazine, a Veterinary based magazine, inspired me to research this incredibly important, Interesting, and alarming article about dog nutrition.
Studies recently show canines eating brand new diets to pups eating brands with nutrition deficiencies (I.e., Pedigree, Beneful, Alpo), which contain large amounts of processed foods, found that dogs eating fresh foods statistically live on average two years and eight months longer than those with the low nutritional diets and/or “cheap” brands.
That’s an extra thirty-two months on your beloved fur baby’s life.
There are many explanations for canines prematurely aging. Contemporary research shows that telomeres – a compound structuring at the end of a chromosome “shortening” could be one connection between processed diets and a shortened life.
TELOMERES, VITALITY, LIFESPAN
The end of each chromosome is a stretch of DNA named telomeres in both canines and homo sapiens.
Telomeres 🧬 are essentially the tough rounded ends of shoelaces. Telomeres conceal the perimeters of your dog’s chromosomes and stop ✋ them from unfolding. 🚫
As canines age, their telomeres get shorter. Generally, old canines have immensely shortened telomeres. Every time a cell divides, the acting telomere for that chromosome gets shortened. Cells are continually dividing, such as surface cells like skin and cells within significant organs such as the liver.
Once the telomeres are wholly gone, its chromosome on the DNA unfolds 🧬 , and the cell will execute one of three plans:
Self-destruction (apoptosis)
Go Solo (evolve cancerously)
Retire (becomes senescent)
The body is continually residing with cancers and stands adequately equipped to handle them. If the immune system is working sufficiently, it can pick up and demolish any cancerous cells. Again, that’s if the immune system is not compromised.
It’s the senescent (or cessation of cell division) cells that do the most damage to the body. Senescent cells are the one guy who ruins the party as these cells come baring early-onset of age-related disease.
Senescent cells lay dormant, and at any given time in the body, they discharge poisonous chemicals. These chemicals begin to grip to encircling healthy cells, causing that cell to become senescent or cancerous.
You need to protect the telomeres.
HOW PROCESSED FOODS DESTROY TELOMERES
Researchers in Spain looked at telomeres size and diets in human participants. They lay the first stone that the more processed diets they ate, the faster they shortened telomeres.
Partakers that ate three or more servings of refined or processed foods everyday stood 82% more apt to bring into light shortened telomeres.
What is refined or processed food? Like yourselves, your canine companions rely solely on the diet you feed them and to enhance longevity, as well as address specific breed diets and needs it’s important to know how to read a dog food label and more important to understand it. Think of processed food as “fillers”. Bad brands of dog food will usually list a filler or a meat “meal or derivative” (essentially ANY part of the protein source, I mean any part) and include a lot of grains such as corn to keep your pet full for longer. Corn, isn’t easily digested whole for humans, and it’s no better for dogs. This does not mean you should feed your pets grain-free food. It means the grains if at all should be healthy, ground up if needed, and easily digested.
Recent articles in both frontline and DVM360 have linked grain-free diets to cardiomyopathy or heart disease/failure. Hills Food Manufacturer sent a disturbing informational article to all associate Veterinary hospitals in June of 2019 showing the research-based evidence and development of grain-free diets and heart failure or sudden death due to heart issues in over five hundred canines.
WHAT IS A PROCESSED FOODS PURPOSE?
A LOT of pet foods and food brands (raw foods included) encompass refined ingredients. The ingredients are exposed to high heat, processing machines, or prepared in a laboratory and approximately entirely nurtured by human reserves. It cuts expenses for the pet food corporation to put fillers and processed food in the nourishment as grain is an inexpensive crop and corn is the cheapest. Corn that is not ground up is not generally tolerated by humans nor pets- the food must contain appropriate grains such as “ground” corn.
The first ingredient listed should always be the protein source (meat). Don’t be fooled by the word meal derivative or meals; this meat is essentially the meat you don’t want your pet to have (I.e., Weird body parts or even meat from untrustworthy or none grass-fed animals from non-accredited farmers).
Dog food standards are not the same as human food standards. The only thing a dog food brand needs is a label listing the ingredients and for it to be visible on the bag. No further testing of the food to date is required by law. PET FOOD DOES NOT need to be FDA tested unless it’s a prescription diet. It does need to pass its own “FDA” mentioned below.
The Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) provides nutritional standards (called model bills and regulations) that pet food manufacturers must abide by if they want to advertise their food as “complete and balanced.” – dogsnaturallymagazine
While the pet food industry reduces their costs by supplementing essential nutrients with fillers, processed foods and protein meals and maybe save a few bucks on the packaging, this day in age the brands are all aware (if they weren’t before) and still sell garbage to gain more personal profit (though they swim in it as is), they add bills to your veterinary tab and take years off your pet’s life, practically load your dog up with fillers, meat and meal derivatives, and indigestiblele grains. We simply have no idea we are slowly killing our pets. Not to mention they STILL push grain-free when it causes heart failure.
Name brand pet food. Is it malicious? Not all, well some probably are, but there are many brands of food. It’s unlikely intentional all pet food corporations are trying to murder your pet since canine and feline nutrition is only recently becoming a significant component of raising healthy pets, and though many brands have been forced off shelves or forced to re-do their recipe; to this day, pedigree, also, and Beneful cut corners. Will display labels below
What are the ingredients most likely to be processed? What do you need to pay extra attention to? Words.
Meals (like chicken meal or corn meal)
Flavors (even natural flavors)
Colorings
Vitamins – what vitamins and how much?
Minerals– what minerals and how much?
You probably already know to stay away from meals and flavors. But many “high end” brands and freeze-dried foods contain vitamins and minerals.
Vitamins sourced in pet food are made with petroleum or fat products and are highly processed in factories. Minerals are also being processed in high heat and can be toxi. Avoid “added vitamins and minerals” or “all-natural and fresh with added supplements”
Processed foods are deficient in antioxidants. A fixed stream of antioxidants is vital to ameliorate oxidative stress harm and telomere curtailing.
HOW TO PREVENT TELEMORES FROM SHORTENING
Simple! Food and lifestyle change. Small adjustments you can make that will help keep your dog’s telomeres long and inflammation down.
Here is a list of supplements proved safe to give to pets that are found OTC. These you can purchase yourself.
Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fats: Both omega-6 and omega-3 fats have the ability to control hormones — and the hormones they control have very different jobs. The omega-6 fatty acids produce hormones that increase inflammation, which is an important part of the immune response. They also help with blood clotting and cell growth. The hormones produced by omega-3 fatty acids also control the immune system and they work alongside the omega-6 fats in an antagonistic manner. So, balance between these fatty acids is an important part of a healthy immune system. Both fats are important and your dog needs both in his diet. But these fats must be reasonably balanced for a balanced immune system … and today’s modern diets make this balance difficult.
Sulforaphane: Broccoli and especially broccoli sprouts are rich in a polyphenol called sulforaphane. This is a powerful antioxidant and liver detoxifier … but make sure it’s not heated as heat destroys the enzyme that converts sulforaphane in the body.
Probiotics/Prebiotics: A prosperous stomach includes an abundance of bacteria that reduce inflammation. And as pups age, their microbiomes become less distinct, and this can cause inflammation and telomere shortening.
Those are just expansions to your pet’s diet. Additionally, for an upset stomach, you can serve none-dessert canned pumpkin or boiled chicken and white rice. “Bland” diets are preferred when a dog is experiencing digestive tract issues. What your dog food should contain are the three driving energy sources.
Your dog needs three sources to operate: protein, fats, and carbohydrates. These macronutrients are the only source of calories your dog gets.
Proteinsare made up of building blocks called amino acids. Amino acids are important not just for energy but for vitality and tissue assembly in the bodies cell production. They also fire up the metabolic process. (hence energy drinks are loaded with amino acids and bcaa)
Fat is a rich source of energy. Pound per pound fat is two times more highly caloric than the protein source. You need to watch the amount of fat per protein ratio when feeding. Fat is essential in protecting your dog’s cells and aids in makinghormones as well as fatty–solublevitamins. Without a steady supply of protein and fat, your dog will die.
Carbohydrates are not essential for life, and dogs can survive without them, but that does not mean they shouldn’t be removed from the recipe. Carbohydrates help boost the dog’s immune systems and help reduce the risk of cancer and other diseases.
That being said the following sites are great for pet nutrition recalls, questions, and information.
Dog food advisor Constantly updates with researched and laboratory-based evidence for every type of pet food imaginableDifferent breeds means different nutrition needs!
Example: GOOD DOG FOOD
Taste of the Wild Southwest Canyon Grain-Free Dry Dog Food, 28-lb bag
“That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.” ― Ray Bradbur
“What greater gift than the love of a cat?” —Charles Dickens (author, Great Expectations)
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.” —Sigmund Freud (psychoanalyst)
Article Written 10/31/2020
“It’s exhilarating,” says Kristyn Vitale, a feline intelligence researcher, an animal behaviorist at Unity College. “People think of cats as desolate and antisocial,” she states. “But this study strengthens the conception that they examine us and learn from us.”
Fugazza, an animal behaviorist, had wanted to study resemblance in other species, and here, shockingly, was a cat that visibly already had the direct discipline. But the subject cat, Ebisu, was spooked by strangers. So Higaki, another animal expert, conducted the experiments in the evenings at her pet boutique, while Fugazza supervises the room’s remote end.
Higaki proves that Ebisu could often copy actions, like opening a plastic drawer and nibbling on a rub stone chain. Then she inquires the cat to copy two everyday activities. While settled before Ebisu, who sat on a countertop close to a cardboard box, Higaki raised her right hand and stroked the cat. At separate times, she leaned down and rubbed her face into the cat.
In sixteen succeeding experiments, Ebisu accurately mimicked her owner more than 81% of the time. The truth that the cat uses her paw and face to examine the circumstance of the owner’s body language and hand gestures shows she could be able to “diagram” her owner’s frame knowledge on her physiology.
Since cats have become bred to be domesticated and consume much time with humans, we assume that they would pick up on humanistic queue to unusual proportions. Nonetheless, anyone who has had a cat understands that they are not regularly as correspondent as you might fancy them to be.
One way in which we often try to engage with the animals that live with us is by pointing at stuff. It is the likelihood that this exposes our weaknesses to our animal friends since this is a distinct individual’s center of interaction. Nevertheless, in 2005, Miklósi et al. confirmed that cats could emulate humanistic signs to obtain food. When inept in solving a task, research whether the cats shape to the humans for aid. They did not.
Other Research studies, whether a cat seeks aid from its owner when put in a concerning position. To see whether cats do that too, the researchers subject cats to a potently frightening fan with banners. For the experiment, cats were put into a vacancy with their owners, with a working Fan. The cat’s owner was to pretend either frightened, calm, collective, or indifferent to the fan. The researchers discovered that most cats, 79% to be precise, place themselves between the loud fan and their owner and seemingly appeared to engage their owners’ interpretation of the fan. The cats also reply to their owner’s emotive response by either staying close by, head-butting their owner, or running away from the fan. Undetermined results of the cat’s behavior to the fan regards this, but the researchers argue that the cats may just be seeking protection from their owners.
Another study has shown that cats are sympathetic to human feelings. They are more likely to approach people who feel sad and the chance to reach people who identify themselves as angry or disturbed. They often stayed away. However, why this should be isn’t evident.
Kittens have around nine different types of vocalization, while adults have around sixteen unique types. Interestingly, the tame and untamed cats also contradict each other in their vocalizations, showing that their connections with humans alter how feline ‘express their needs to human beings.’ Perhaps one of the most remarkable vocalizations of cats is their purr. Cats purr when being stroked by humans; they also use it in interactions with each other and their kittens. Sometimes the purr is to reassure the cat and calm them down; for instance, a cat might purr during a Veterinary Visit.
What’s more, topping this study of cat purrs, cats change their purr to modify the vocalization’s purpose. For instance, when asking for food from owners, cats’ purrs turn, seemly more ‘commanding’ and ‘less pleasant’ (McComb et al. 2009). When asking for food, a high-frequency miaow is by and large also established in that lower-pitch purr. However, whether this food solicitation call is particular to cats’ relationship to humans or whether they use it in other circumstances is generally undiscovered.
In 2007, Edwards et al. conduct out the unusually-called ‘Ainsworth Strange Situation Test’ design an experiment to see whether cats were more attached to their owners than to a random human being. In this experiment, the cat was placed in a room with three different settings, alone, being with their human owner, and being with an unbeknown man. The researchers found that cats spent more time head-butting (or rubbing intensely with their faces) to their owners than the guest. They also only ever followed and played/interacted with their owner and never with the guest. The cats were collectively more explorative and moved around more when their owner was in the room than the stranger. The cat commonly showed more vigilant and sedent measures by the door when alone and with the stranger. They vocalized the most when alone (compare with when with either man). It seems that cats have an attachment to their owners that is stronger than with a random stranger, which is perhaps slightly satisfying to know.
Cats also seem to know separation anxiety, which shows that they experience interest for their owners. When isolated from their owners, cats remain more likely to exhibit anxious behaviors such as urinating and defecating outside the litter box, enormous voice meows, showing signs of destructiveness, along with immensely grooming themselves.
In the ongoing debate over dogs and cats, their evidence supports the theory that dogs are man’s best friend. They’re friendly, honest, and obedient. Our connection with cats, on the opposite side, is frequently described as more flexible. Reserved, incomprehensible, and bright, cats are with us simply because we provide for them. Or maybe not. In a recent study, researchers report that cats are precisely as effectively bonded to us as dogs or children, supporting cat lovers over the nation. “I get that a lot — ‘Well, I knew that, I know that cats like to interact with me,'” said Kristyn Vitale, an animal behavior scientist at Oregon State University and lead tell of the modern study, published in Current Biology. “But in science, you don’t know that until you test it.” Analysis of catlike behavior has been long-delayed in that of dogs. Incorrect research states that cats are not sociable animals; many scientists supposed this theory correct and discontinued testing behavior. Additionally, cats are not as quick to play. Late studies have begun to test the deepness of cats’ behavior in social settings.
“This idea that cats don’t care about people or respond to them isn’t holding up,” Dr. Vitale said.
A study in 2017 administered by Dr. Vitale and her associates found that most cats wanted to engage with a person if concerning food, shelter, or playing toys.
In a 2019 study, the researchers found that felines accommodate their demeanor to fit the owners’ personalities and how much care a person gives them.
Other researchers have discovered that cats are conscious of human influence and character and know their owner’s names. However, scientists had reached inconsistent findings around whether cats’ relations to their owners’ and their connection to their owner’s weigh-in, so Dr. Vitale and her associates draft a study to experiment with the theory more clearly. They enlist 79 kittens and 38 matured feline owners to partake in a “secure base test” and generally try use to moderation bonds that dogs and primates formality with caretakers.
About 35 percent of cats and kittens displayed distrustful regard: They escape their owners or adhered to them when they came back into the room. Vitale’s study does not purport that these pets have a deceitful relationship with their owners. Instead, they do not see their owners as a source of protection and stress relief—the verdicts model those found in dogs and human infant studies. In humans, 65 percent of infants exhibit secure attachment to their caretakers, as do 58 percent of dogs.
Testing cats’ responses to strangers, rather than just their owners, might reveal whether cats bonded to a specific person or if they are friendly toward humans in general. Dr. Vitale and her associates plan to understand more in-depth cats’ relationships with humans and see if their positive impacts will serve shelter cats from not creating bonds with human beings. The cat’s fear of the human is likely to be the reason for fewer cat adoptions. It’s a possibility that one day we can teach cats to learn specific bonding procedures allowing more calm cats and adoptions. When adopting a cat, it’s essential to understand that they have personalities and may appear fearful yet but extroverted once in a safe place.
“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
-Ernest Hemingway
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It wasn’t until I had my cat for over 8 years that he first started biting me. At first, I thought it was playful but to my astonishment the more I ignored it, the more he continued. Working as a Veterinary Staff Member I felt it my duty to understand why my cat would just randomly start being a jerk after 8 years. To my findings among tons of journals and articles about cats dating back to 350 B.C. when the first cat was mentioned in old English literature, I realized that not only was it bad that I didn’t recognize why my cat was biting me…it was bad that I really didn’t recognize my cats behaviors at all. Like everyone else, they were “just cats”. To understand a cat is truly a divine aspect. So if you want to learn some interesting things about your little lions keep reading.
Non-veterinarians in the Veterinary Industry or Animal Science Field such as myself, who study canine and feline behavior, often go by animal behaviorists and offer counseling on behavior problems of pets. Some have a doctoral or master’s degree in psychology or a related field, and some have a certification. Because many behavior problems in cats can be influenced by medical conditions, always go to a veterinarian first, before assuming your cat is just misbehaving are the professionals who can offer the most comprehensive care.
Cat biting otherwise known as Status-related aggression is scratching or biting by cats at humans that try to control the cat’s behavior. Another name for what this is it has been called the “leave-me-alone bite.” Cat behavior is not like dog behavior, so unlike similar situations in canines this behavior in cats is not associated with resources such as food, toys, or space. It’s most likely due to lack of attention, wanting control or trying to tell you off.
There are plenty of other “bad cat behaviors” which may just be “natural cat instincts” that might not be favorable to us humans. Cats do things we don’t care for, such as jumping on the table,counters,stoves,window seals, and fridges. Infamous for scratching furniture, or attacking our feet like prey when we walk by or sometimes at 3:20am – the hour of the cat. Before getting angry, the only thing we need to learn before we try to “correct” these behaviors is that they are derived by natural feline instincts, thus, once stimulated or excited the cat by nature is not always “in control” of it’s behavior. Often times a Veterinarian will give a cat a “cool-off” period while trimming nails, or giving vaccines- as like humans. Once they’re pissed off, they’re pissed off. Next time you enter your home, try greeting your cat as you would your roommate. They much prefer that then baby-talk and aggressive head pats.
Marking items, walls, and other belongings outside of the litter box is called Spraying. This is the elimination of urine through a small stream of potent ammonia smelling urine. It is done standing up, with the tail raised and quivering (watch for this sign, it’s never good). The urine is directed onto a flat or straight surface, such as a wall, curtain, or inside of a suitcase, laundry basket etc. Spraying or urine marking is more common in intact male cats, and neutering will help to reduce and possibly eliminate future spraying behaviors. Cats may spray as a form of marking his or her territory, letting one know they do not appreciate their presence or simply as a sign of anxiety. Most commonly after a baby is born, a new friend moves in, or you move homes.
Cats can’t help getting stimulated and like any creature need to exercise. If your cat is indoor only they definitely need some stimulating toys. Believe me when I say you will hear them playing with their simple but intricate looking toys at 3:20am. Quite often, if your cat is misbehaving due to new changes in his or her life your cat may have to learn to live with the trigger and anxiety. Call your Veterinarian, at least get recommendations and try calming cat products such as feliway pheromones, supplements, medications, and special diets (Veterinary Prescribed). You can also give your cat other things to focus its energy on, like exercise-inducing toys. Little mice, springs, feathers and cat tunnels. Keep your cat entertained, and he’ll make sure to not make your life hell.
There are many other behaviors that I couldn’t cover in one blog if I tried such as eating grass, messing with our feet, chirping, bashing tails etc. but for now the best thing you can do for your biting friend, is read up about him. Get to understand your feline friend on a different level. Establish a better relationship. A list of credible resources below for the good cat owner.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: WEIRD CAT BEHAVIORS
“10 Weird Cat Behaviors That Could Be Signs of a Sick Cat | PetMD” . n.p., 19 Sep. 2020.Web. 19 Sep. 2020.
Cats can’t help getting stimulated and like any creature need to exercise. If your cat is indoor only they definitely need some stimulating toys. Believe me when I say you will hear them playing with their simple but intricate looking toys at 3:20am. Quite often, if your cat is misbehaving due to new changes in his or her life your cat may have to learn to live with the trigger and anxiety. Call your Veterinarian, at least get recommendations and try calming cat products such as feliway pheromones, supplements, medications, and special diets (Veterinary Prescribed). You can also give your cat other things to focus its energy on, like exercise-inducing toys. Little mice, springs, feathers and cat tunnels. Keep your cat entertained, and he’ll make sure to not make your life hell.