Nowadays, people live in the city and are busy socializing every day under the pressure of life. They often ignore some of the most primitive fun of life, such as care for pets. Like humans, cats also need care and companionship. Many people go to work during the day and leave their cats alone at home, and cats will be lonely. This loneliness will affect the cat's personality and habits in the long run, and may even cause diseases. What are the ways to relieve cat loneliness? A must-see for beginners!
We often see cats playing happily in the apartment, often facing the call of their owners or the temptation of food as if nothing had happened, but there are often some problems hidden under the surface. For example, sometimes cats will create unexpected events because they are lonely for too long to attract attention.
1. The manifestation of cat loneliness
1. Hair removal
Cats will experience psychological hair removal when they are lonely. They will overcomb their hair and will reject other activities. The occurrence and duration of this behavior may not be very regular.
Psychological hair loss refers to the sudden thinning of the cat's hair, or complete hair loss. Common areas such as the belly or the inner thighs, where the hair loss may look nothing unusual, and some may be red or scratched. However, before confirming, you must first confirm whether the cat has a skin disease and rule out the pathological itchy reaction before it can be determined that it is psychological hair loss.
2. Wandering around
The cats mentioned here are not homeless cats wandering around, but are aimless wandering in the room. Walking back and forth in a range is a typical phenomenon of this problem, often after a period of confinement or restricting the cat's freedom. Similar behaviors may occur in cats when they are in estrus, nerve problems, brain abnormalities, epilepsy seizures, pain or nutritional metabolism abnormalities. Therefore, it is necessary to check whether the cat has a physiological condition before confirming it.
3. Tooth grinding, cats like to clean their hair, which is a very normal behavior. However, many cats in families do not miss other things except licking their hair, such as carpets, sofa covers, curtains, wool balls or hair rings used by girls to comb their hair. Not only do they lick, but some also suck or bite these items, which is a bit abnormal, and these behaviors often cause gastritis or intestinal obstruction.
2. How to send cats to loneliness
1. Communication method
The IQ of a cat is not low. Before going out, you should tell its owner to be kind, ask it to wait at home, tell it to take it out for fun after it comes back, and there will be delicious prizes, etc. If you can give it some delicious snacks or apply what it likes to eat on toys, cats who are good at understanding humans will get a lot of comfort from communication.
2. Exercise method
Before going out, you can take the cat outdoors to exercise to let it consume too much physical strength, so that the cat will be more tired when returning home and hope to sleep.
3. Attention transfer method
can give it an old piece of clothing or socks stained with the owner's smell. The familiar smell will make it feel that the owner is still with it and it will feel safe. It often provides some fun toys to make it focus on playing, so that the uneasy emotions can be transferred and the loneliness is forgotten. Toys that make noise are very good.
Finally, sterilizing cats is also a necessary means. Perhaps some people only know that cats will not scream because of estrus after sterilization, and their ears can be much more silenced. In fact, during the estrus, the physical and psychological pressure of cats is much greater than that when we are quarreled by cats.