Psychology Resources from Pets Directory

Animal Planet: Reading Your Cat - Becoming attuned to your cat's temperament and idiosyncrasies.

Calming Your Cat - An information source for learning how ease your cat's anxiety to combat spraying and marking in inappropriate places and how to help your cat deal with children new people and loud noises.

Cat Fancy: Drugs Can Help Scaredy Cats or Aggressive Cats - Describes sedatives and antianxiety medications that may help cats with problems.

Cat Fancy: Fearful Cat - Treating cats that are fearful of thunderstorms.

Community Animal Welfare Society: Cat Psychology - Offers articles on a wide variety of feline topics including understanding your cat's territorial nature tips on litterbox training and controlling cat aggression.

Koshka's Little Corner: Phobias and Other Anxiety - Discusses separation anxiety thunderstorm anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Pet Education: Fear of Thunderstorms and Noise Phobias - Examines treatment of noise phobias including counter conditioning and desensitization.

Pet Education: Stress - The causes of stress in cats are explained.

Petalia: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders in Cats - Explains what obsessive-compulsive disorder is with some examples how a behavior becomes compulsive what feline psychogenic overgrooming is and how disorders are treated.

Purina Cat Chow: How to Help a Depressed Cat - Addresses depression in cats.

The Daily Cat: Your Cat's Psyche - Guide to understanding your cat. Includes a question and answer section writted by a feline behavior expert instructions on health and nutrition and tips on recognizing signs of illness.