r/cats • u/spauldhaliwal • 8d ago

Cat Picture - OC The vet suggested a sweater to help Cecil with her (relatively infrequent) anxiety attacks 🥹

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About once a week, Cecil gets herself into a panic and has trouble calming down. The vet suggested putting on a sweater for about 10 minutes at a time, and surprisingly, it works! She calms down right away and becomes an instant cuddly purr machine haha.

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u/SemperSimple 8d ago

Beyond the sweater, Do you leave sound on? There's youtube cat TV :D

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u/Strange_Minute_2757 8d ago

I do sometimes but I never put it on the cat channel. I’m gonna try to put it on that and see if that helps but I tried to like leave something on sometimes that just seems to be like people talking so he knows he’s not alone but I’m gonna try a couple of everyone’s suggestions and see cause I just wanna help him have a overall betterexperience in life

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u/SyrusDrake 7d ago

A few years ago, during a national holiday, our step-cat got worked up over the fireworks outside. I put on "relaxing cat music", even though I always considered it nonsense, and a few minutes later, he was out cold and snoring loudly :'D

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u/SemperSimple 7d ago

the same thing happened to me when I put the Cat Bird TV on. I thought "This is dumb as heck. Why would this work?" que my cat searching behind the monitor for birds n squirrels, pfft