Dear Cathy, I just got two little kittens. One ended up with diarrhea and did not make it to the litter box. He has been to ...

Behavioral intervention in feline medicine often starts reactively. By the time a cat presents with anxiety or stress-related ...

However much you love your cat, human-feline relationships are sometimes tricky. When your cat has a behavior issue, it is hard for the people in the home and is often a sign that something is not ...

If you’ve got a mischievous moggy on your hands, you might be wondering how to discipline a cat. While cats won’t respond in the same way dogs do, it’s definitely possible to train them – but it takes ...

What can we do when our cats aren’t behaving how we’d like? It can be tricky to know how to manage our cats’ undesirable behavior, in part simply because they’re cats – often, they seem to rule the ...

Do cats get lonely or anxious when their humans are gone? You bet. A study published last week, “Identification of separation-related problems in domestic cats,” in the journal PLOS ONE takes another ...

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Fluoxetine, an SSRI, is prescribed by vets to manage feline behavioral issues like anxiety, aggression, and inappropriate elimination, often alongside environmental changes and behavior modification.

Cats behaving badly can feel like a bad dream. They pee in strange places -- on toasters, on the bed, in your suitcase. They'll play with a human or cat friend one moment, and hiss and bite the next.