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Can a cat be depressed at home alone? What are the manifestations of cat depression

Dogs and cats are emotional animals, and their owners can feel their care and care for them. If one day a cat suddenly becomes depressed, showing symptoms such as depression, unwillingness to contact with people, refusal to eat and so on, what should we do at this time? Will a cat be depressed at home alone?

Depression in cats

1. Cats lose interest in playing and have no pleasure;

2. The cat's energy is decreased, and it is easy to be tired and depressed;

3. Cats may have psychomotor retardation or agitation;

4. Cats are easy to lose confidence, and some external factors will affect their psychological state;

5. The cat has difficulty in association and the ability of conscious thinking declines;

6. Cats are in low mood and want to die repeatedly or commit suicide or self injury;

7. Cats have sleep disorders, often insomnia, unable to sleep, wake up early, etc;

8. The cat's appetite and body weight decreased significantly;

9. The cat's libido decreases, and may not have estrus symptoms.

what should cats do when they are depressed?

1. Timely send to pet hospital for treatment and diagnosis. With the help of a veterinarian, determine the extent of the cat's depression, and then specify an effective treatment.

2. The owner should have more contact with the cat and play with it. In his spare time, he can take the cat out to play, so that the cat can have a relaxed mood and recover his mental state slowly.

3. At home, we should care more about the cat, touch the cat's head and body, prepare more delicious cat food and toys for the cat, so that the cat can get familiar with its living environment as soon as possible and relax its vigilance.

4. Don't bathe the cat when the cat is still on guard and has conflict with the surrounding environment and people. Avoid scaring the cat again and reinforce depression.

Cats suffer from depression, usually due to emotional problems, leading to psychological problems. To treat cat depression, the most important thing is to communicate with the cat, so that the cat can regain the abandoned emotion, so as to restore physical and mental health.