Can you give rescue remedy to cats and it it really a good treatment for a cat that is stressed or anxious?
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– Stress in multi-cat households is really common
– Other things such as pain can cause similar problems and any cat with a change in behaviour should be checked to ensure nothing else is wrong + to get specific recommendations tailored for your cat specifically from your vet.
Take steps to reduce the causes of stress rather than just medicate
– 1 more food/water/litter tray than number of cats
– Have escape routes rather than shut in same room
– Safe spaces to hide – cats like height
– Medications
Some people swear by rescue remedy and typically give a drop or two several times a day. I used to believe that rescue remedy could be classed as a herbal supplement but have recently been looking into it in more detail:
– First produced in the 1930’s by Edward Bach who was an English homeopath. When he was feeling a certain emotion he held his hand over different plants and the one that made him feel better he ascribed the healing power to cure that negative emotion.
– He collected dew from the plant. Feeling that the plant would have transferred it’s healing energy to the water. This was then mixed with the same amount of brandy to produce the mother tincture before being further diluted in alcohol to produce the final therapeutic product
– It is not produced in the same way as homeopathic remedies in that the dilution is not so great and there is not concussion step to transfer energy, however is shares much of the same underlying philosophy
– If enough dew can’t be collected then the initial water can be collected by soaking the flowers in water while allowing the sun’s rays to pass through them, or if this is not possible the water can be boiled.
There is no evidence rescue remedy has any effect and given the way it is produced and similarity to the principles of homeopathy it is now something I would no longer recommend.
Related video:
homeopathy in pets – https://youtu.be/x3HTUMcbKEw
– Feliway does help but again should not be the only thing to be done. A separate diffuser is also ideally needed for every room the cat goes in (https://amzn.to/2uDRAnS)
– Other supplements like calmex and zylkene, which again have limited evidence to prove their effect (https://amzn.to/2JURdQg)
– Proper pharmaceuticals such as clomipramine
Need to be prescribed by your vet + again need to be used with other changes in the environment
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