ReviewFrontiers in veterinary science2022
Dealing With Stress in Cats: What Is New About the Olfactory Strategy?
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- Influence of hospital-induced stress on blood glucose concentrations, serum concentrations of cortisol, thyroxine and bile acids, and behaviour in cats.Journal of feline medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- RETRACTED: Hair Cortisol and Fe-BARQ: Evaluating Chronic Stress and Behavior in Cats with Chronic Kidney Disease.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Preliminary Findings on the Morphometric Characteristics of the Olfactory Bulb in the Cat.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Semiochemical 2-Methyl-2-butenal Reduced Signs of Stress in Cats during Transport.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Stress and the domestic cat: have humans accidentally created an animal mimic of neurodegeneration?Frontiers in neurology · 2024Review
- Assessing the safety and suitability of using silver vine as an olfactory enrichment for cats.iScience · 2023Article
- 2023 AAFP/IAAHPC feline hospice and palliative care guidelines.Journal of feline medicine and surgery · 2023Review
- Benchmarking Enrichment Efforts in the US & Canada Across Species and Enrichment Categories.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2023Article
- Can an Enrichment Programme with Novel Manipulative and Scent Stimuli Change the Behaviour of Zoo-Housed European Wildcats? A Case Study.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- The Olfactory Bulb in Companion Animals-Anatomy, Physiology, and Clinical Importance.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Cytotoxicity against A549 Human Lung Cancer Cell Line via the Mitochondrial Membrane Potential and Nuclear Condensation Effects ofMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Antimicrobial Peptides Relieve Transportation Stress in Ragdoll Cats by Regulating the Gut Microbiota.Metabolites · 2023Article
- Dietary Strategies for Relieving Stress in Pet Dogs and Cats.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Abstract
Domestic cats are descended from solitary wild species and rely heavily on the olfaction system and chemical signals for daily activities. Cats kept as companion animals may experience stress due to a lack of predictability in their physical or social environment. The olfactory system is intimately connected to the brain regions controlling stress response, thus providing unique opportunities for olfactory strategies to modify stress and related behavioral problems in cats. However, the olfactory intervention of stress in cats has been mainly focused on several analog chemical signals and studies often provide inconsistent and non-replicable results. Supportive evidence in the literature for the potentially effective olfactory stimuli (e.g., cheek and mammary gland secretions, and plant attractants) in treating stress in cats was reviewed. Limitations with some of the work and critical considerations from studies with natural or negative results were discussed as well. Current findings sometimes constitute weak evidence of a reproducible effect of cat odor therapy for stress. The welfare application of an olfactory stimulus in stress alleviation requires a better understanding of its biological function in cats and the mechanisms at play, which may be achieved in future studies through methodological improvement (e.g., experiment pre-registration and appropriate control setting) and in-depth investigation with modern techniques that integrate multisource data. Contributions from individual and environmental differences should be considered for the stress response of a single cat and its sensitivity to olfactory manipulation. Olfactory strategies customized for specific contexts and individual cats can be more effective in improving the welfare of cats in various stressful conditions.
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