Facts to Consider When Boarding Your Cats
Separation Anxiety
Pets suffer emotional stress when their owners leave whether they're left at home or placed in a boarding kennel. Any pet in strange surroundings suffers from stress. This means that his or her normal immune process is affected, as well as their eating and digestive habits. Happy Cat Retreat will do everything possible to minimize the effects of stress on your cat. For this reason, it is a good procedure for you to allow your cat's) to adjust to the kennel environment at their own rate.
Stress is a Factor
You, as the owner, can help minimize the effects of stress by trying to make the boarding experience as pleasant as possible for your cat. The more often your cat boards, the more adjusted he or she will be to the kennel environment, and the easier the boarding process becomes. Therefore, several short periods of boarding prior to a lengthy vacation will probably do more to help your cat adjust to boarding than anything else.
Please keep in mind that cats react much differently in a strange environment than do dogs. Cats are instinctively solitary animals. They do not run in packs as dogs do. Therefore, when confronted with strange surroundings, a cat's normal response is to withdraw physically and mentally into a protected state.
For this reason, cats enjoy the "protected" feeling they get from being caged while in the kennel. Your cat will probably want to sit in the corner of his cage and stare, until he feels comfortable in the new environment. Human contact does not normally accelerate this period of acclimatizing. It has to take place at the cat's own speed.
Happy Cat provides spacious indoor condos with solid laminate partitions between each condo for safety, privacy, and peace and quiet. Your cat can relax without feeling challenged by his or her neighbors.
Call us while you're away and we'll be happy to give you a progress report.
Law of Pill Rejection
Any pill given to a cat has the potential energy to reach escape velocity..
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