FELINE ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT

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Feline Environmental Enrichment helps our cats relieve stress and enjoy their lives.  The benefits are immense and will help increase the bond you and your kitty share as well as minimize health risks.  Enriching the environment for our feline companions means providine RESOURCES, RESOURCES, RESOURCES!  This means lots of litter boxes, offering feeding stations throughout the house, providing toys that stimulate and satisfy prey drive, lots of heights and levels, as well as areas that provide privacy and refuge.

Indoor Pet Initiative for Cat Owners This is the link to the Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine site for the Indoor Pet Initiative.  It has many tips on how to reduce stress in the life of indoor cats.  We feel that many feline diseases are caused or worsened by stress.  Reducing stress in your cat's life can keep him happier and healthier!

What Indoor Cats Need  From The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine's Feline Indoor Initiative Site above,  this is a link to a great handout on What Indoor Cats Need.  It has lots of tips on how to keep your feline companion stress free!!  Decreased stress makes for a healthier kitty!

Cats Just Wanna Have Fun!  The American Humane Association now brings you the Animal Behavior Resources Institute (ABRI)  This is a link to information on the importance of environmental enrichment for your cat from the experts at ABRI.

FAB The Cat Friendly Home Great tips from Europe's Feline Advisory Board on how to make a cat friendly home.

Cat Bed and Toy.com  Enrich your cat's environment with cat trees and scratching posts.  Check out this website for some great examples.

www.cat-power-tower.com/ Another great example of a cat tree that will bring lots of fun to your feline family!

Enrichment for Household Cats Part 1 By Dr. Melissa Bain for the Best Friends Society

Enrichment for Household Cats, Part 2

Feline Indoor Enrichment Handout from UC Davis

Feline Household Resources Checklist

Feliway for Cats Cats communicates through smell much more than people do. Feliway Pheromone therapy comforts cats in their own language! Feliway is available at Deer Run Animal Hospital.

Frequenty Asked Questions About Feliway

Measure Your Cat's Stress Risk Level  Try Feliway's Cat Stress Risk Barometer to evaluate your cat's stress level.

Feline Introductions  Thinking about adding a new feline friend to your household?  Click here to help smooth the introduction.

Feline Scratching Behavior

10 Tips for Improving Litter Box Appeal

Litter Box Woes  Is your kitty missing the litter box?  Click here for help!

Cats Love Food Toys Stimulate your cat's natural prey drive, use food toys!

Play & Squeak Prey Toys Bring the wild inside with these realistic prey toys. Our cats play with these for hours!  All toys feature an electronic sound module that produces the amazingly realistic RealMouse™ sound - a "squeak" that is the same frequency and loudness as a real mouse! We love the Mouse Hunter!  It is so looked & sounded so realistic that it had us jumping on chairs and squealing thinking our cats had caught a live mouse.  Truly satisfies the prey drive of your indoor "Tiger"! (always supervise small toys to make sure small parts are not being consumed, throw away and replace if they are being torn apart)

Frolicat Toys For fun exercise for your cat with amazing automated laser toys and much more! IMPORTANT TIP--When playing with cats with any laser toy, it is important to end the session by letting them actually catch a prey toy like a toy mouse, or stuffed animal so that your cat does not feel frustrated by not being able to catch the laser spot!!

Cats & WaterTips to encourage your cats to drink more water for their health with these tips!

Prevent a Great Escape How to keep your cat safe indoors and avert escape-artist behavior

Best Friends Society Handout on CATIOS

C & D Pet Products a great source for cat trees, scratching posts, and safe outdoor cat enclosures.  Great products to enrich the feline environment.

Just4Cats

Purr...fect Fence for Cat Enclosures and Cat Fences to give your cat a taste of the outdoors while remaining safe.