Common Nervous Disorders
Nervousness can demonstrate of several ways, but one of the most common is that the cat stops eating. If this happens, the veterinarian must see if there is some problem of health, before looking for an environmental reason. To encourage the cat to eat, we must offer him his favorite food, giving him to eating in the hand: then, little by little, to put small quantities of food in his dish. Caress and encourage the cat while he eats. After, it is possible to fill the dish , but putting it in our lap, to support the cat while he eats. Finally, it can return for putting the dish in the floor, but it is necessary to continue speaking and caressing the cat while he eats. The veterinarian can prescribe something that stimulates the appetite to encourage that he eats.
Another sign that the cat can be confused is that he eats fabrics. A distressed cat can eat wool, string, plastic and cables of gum or electrical. This happens more with the Siamese cats and burmeses and in those that have been weaned too soon (2-4 weeks). It is in the habit of beginning in the adolescence, but also it can be a question of a nervous reaction. While we look for the reason, it is necessary to prevent that the cat has these materials put of his scope and offering him dry biscuits or big bones covered with fiber. The cats are in the habit of being very clean, but a nervous cat can be polishing the half of the time, becoming bald (alopecia) or even injures or wounds in the skin.
If our veterinarian discard a physical latent problem, he can prescribe a medication that has the cat calm while we suppress the possible reasons of tension.
There are cats bitting the tail, run as mad or even they become wounded (this is the same thing that the hurts in the skin produced by the obsessive polishing) It can fall the skin, especially along the loin. This can be a sign of allergy to the fleas, pains of loin or due to the nervous. It is necessary to take the cat for reviewing in order to find the reason. Ansiolitic medicines can be especially useful for this illness.
To eat the plants is frequent in the cats of interior that they bore. You should provide grass to them in order that they chew it and to take charge that have many toys and something where climbing.
Finally, it is possible to be good in order that a nervous cat to try a sure place where he could hide when he is frightened. A good place to to retire can be a calm and warm cabinet ; also a shelf or a high furniture from he could monitor the panorama will make him feel surer.
