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Although it may seem like something that only affects you, stress can greatly affect your cat's health. Hi, I'm Carlos, a clinical veterinarian at Small Animals. Welcome to the Happy Pets and Families Channel. Wow, you can't believe how stressed I am. I've spent a week between work, home and the channel. I just can't stop. Well, Carlos, nobody cares about your life. Well, nobody cares about my life. But what I'm going to talk to you about today is also somewhat related to stress. Although it may seem like a modern thing for working people, cats can also suffer from a lot of anxiety and stress, and that can really complicate their health. In today's video, I'm going to show you how you can identify it, what the main causes are, and how you can combat it. First of all, we're going to talk about how you can recognize it, which is the most important thing. If you notice that your cat is evasive, hiding under a bed, hissing at you when you approach, or when other cats in your home approach, or even becoming a little aggressive, it could be a sign of stress. This sign of stress is usually triggered by not having the best relationship with other animals or by having suffered some type of trauma at some point in the past. Also closely related to this is the sign that you see your cat walking in front of you and going very quickly and very low to the ground as if it doesn't want you to see it. What this is telling you is that your cat doesn't want you to see it or for you to pick it up because it associates you with the cause that is causing it stress. This is very common when the cat comes home from the vet, because after all, you picked it up from its bed, which was taking a nap, you put it in the carrier and you brought it to me, that evil being waiting for you with a syringe in hand to give you a vaccine when you return home and release your cat from its carrier. Many cats will normally hide under a bed or hide in a closet and not want to come out or want to hide from you to prevent you from doing the same thing to them again. But don't worry, this will pass by dinner time and they will be asking you for food again without any problem. Another thing you can look for to know if your cat is stressed is marking. It doesn't matter if your cat is neutered or not. There are many times when cats mark solely for territorial reasons, that is, to defend their territory from external aggression. Some time ago, a lady came to my office with her cat very angry because she said that her cat had been neutered incorrectly, that her cat had been neutered four years ago, and that it had started marking again. Well, it had been a short time, and that, of course, that was a sign that the cat was in heat. Of course. When I started asking the lady if the cat had continued marking after the operation, she told me that for four years she hadn't done anything and that it had stopped completely, but that it had recently started marking again. And I started asking her, and I said, well, does mom do it at night, or does she want to escape through the window to go with other cats? And she told me that she hadn't. So when I continued asking her, she told me that the only thing that had changed at home was that there was a cat that came to the window of her house to mark on the outside of the glass. Of course, her. Her cat wasn't going to stay there without doing anything because that stranger was coming to invade her home. So what the cat had started doing was marking only in that area to tell the cat that was passing by on the street that that house was his and that he was not going to take away his owner's affection. The solution in that case was to put a kind of mesh around the gate that led to the street so that the other cat could not enter and mark on the other side of the window. In that way, his cat calmed down and stopped seeing the other one as an intruder. Cats do not tolerate unauthorized visits to their home very well, and it causes them a lot of anxiety. Another typical sign of stress is disorders related to food and feeding. And if we humans tend to eat compulsively, what it usually causes in cats is a loss of appetite. You may see that your cat eats a little less, or you may see that even if he lives with other animals, or if he does not feel comfortable eating from his food bowl, he does not put his butt on the floor and eats without actually sitting down. That is a sign of stress. But there are also some cats that stop eating completely if the stress is too great, and that can cause them diseases such as liver disease, which in cats can be fatal. Finally, something that can set off the stress alarm is if your cat has repeated illnesses, infections, or also, for example, problems with its urine and bladder. Stressed cats suffer much more frequently from cystitis and problems when urinating. It is very common for you to bring them to the consultation to tell us that your cat goes to the litter box a lot and cannot pee, or that they are peeing outside their litter box around your house and that this pee is a reddish color. When we see this, one of the first reasons we have to think is that something in the home environment is not going well and your cat is suffering from anxiety. In addition, as you probably know, stress affects the immune system and there are diseases that can worsen if your cat is suffering from it, such as leukemia, which I have already talked about in another video and in which I stressed that it was very important for your cat to have a comfortable and stress free life. As I have been explaining throughout the video, the main causes of stress in cats are usually related to changes that occur in your environment or in their environment, because after all, you live together. You have to keep in mind that renovations, trips, changes in furniture, or even a new cat moving back into the house can be very stressful situations for your cat. If you adopt a new cat and you already have another one at home, I have already explained how to do it in another video. And if you follow these steps, everything will probably go well. But the most important thing is that your cat always has access to its food bowl and that no one comes to take its food or its resting area or enter or leave without it feeling watched or stopped by the other cat. I'm going to tell you another story because there's another story left. I sound like Grandpa Onion here. Once someone brought me a cat that had trouble peeing bladder problems. As I've told you, it's very typical of stress. When I asked the family, what they ended up telling me was that the only change they had made was that grandma had come to live with them. Since grandma also wanted to be in the sun a little by the window, they had removed her cat's bed from where it had always been, which was by the window, so that he could sunbathe peacefully. And they had put grandma's sofa there. The cat didn't take this well at all because obviously a stranger had come from outside his house to take away all the privileges he had and that's why he started to get stressed and get sick. And this all leads us to what can you do to prevent stress in your cat? Well, look, the first thing you have to do is remember that you don't live alone in your house and that your cat is part of your family. You're not going to agree to any changes you make with your cat because even if you ask him, the most he's going to do is meow or purr at you. However, you have to keep in mind that he lives with you and that you have to share everything together. Jose, I love autumn. These changes in the light. You like it too, don't you? Okay, I thought you were going to say yes. It makes it much easier for me to get on. Because this way he'll adapt much better to everything new that comes along. And you can't stand it with your dead face on.

Well, he'll adapt better to everything that comes along. Please, now I'm really scary. And as always, I have to tell you about synthetic feline facial pheromones. I know I repeated ad nauseam, but it's very important, even if it's a pain, to repeat it in every video, it can help your cat a lot to combat stress.

They do exist. Oh, no, no. I'm a big feminist. Let's leave it at that. As I tried to show you in the video, a boss isn't the only cause of stress, and your cat doesn't need one to suffer from it. Did you know all these signs of stress that cats can suffer from? Have you ever seen it in yours? And what have you done to try to solve it? Did you almost have it? Okay, I'm not going to ask you any more questions, so write me a comment because I'd like to know. And that's it. We're done. And that's it for today's video. If you liked it, give it a like and share it with everyone. Remember that you can subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. Checking your subscriber count and seeing that you haven't subscribed is really stressful for me. So please don't bother me and click the bell icon to tell YouTube to notify you every time we upload new content. Thank you very much for following the Happy Pets and Families channel, and I'll see you in the next video. Now let's move on to this week's question. This week, Jules Garcia asked us how she can make sure her dog doesn't get so nervous that he pees on himself when he sees her. She's asking me this because she has a puppy. Jules, this is a bit difficult because many times they get so excited when you come home because they think you've left them there all day, that they get really nervous and pee on themselves. What I recommend to you and to everyone is that with your dogs, you never reward these nervous behaviors because that way you're telling your dog that it's okay if he does this to you when you get home and you start paying him and your dog feels reinforced, then it's normal for him to repeat it over and over again. What you have to do when you get home is ignore him for a bit. Don't bend down, pet him, or give him any rewards, because that way your dog will realize that jumping and peeing on himself won't get your attention, which is what he wants, after all. Thanks for your question, Jules. I hope I've helped you overcome this problem, and if you want, you can tell me how your little one is progressing. And if you want us to include your question in the Question of the Week section, what you have to do is leave us comments on our videos and we'll select some to answer until next week. Well, you've been watching it, right? You see me on YouTube or you hear me on the Cosmic dates.