047 Overgrooming and Pica in Cats – What You Need To Know!

The Pet Behaviour Chat

Episode 47 – Overgrooming and Pica in Cats – What You Need To Know!

Does your cat overgroom to the point where they have thinning hair in one or more areas of their bodies?

Does your cat chew and swallow non-food items?

Do you have a pet or patient that has had numerous foreign body surgeries to remove ingested items?

Would you like to know what you can do to help and treat these cats?

Then this episode is for you!

Dr Katrin chats through the main causes of both Feline Psychogenic Alopecia and Pica and how she navigates a work up and designs a treatment plan for these patients.

In this episode you will learn:

1. The normal grooming pattern of cats

2. Why a physical medical work up is SO important in these cases

3. Why cats eat rubber items and chew and eat wool blankets

4. How to treat Abnormal Repetitive Behaviours in Cats

5. How to avoid expensive and risky foreign body surgeries

Learn more about Feline Idiopathic Cystitis in Episode 30 HERE

Here are the resources Dr Katrin mentions in this episode:

1. Waisglass, S.E., Landsberg, G. (2006). Underlying medical conditions in cats with presumptive psychogenic alopecia. JAVMA, 228:11, 1705-1709.

https://doi.org/10.2460/javma.228.11.1705

2. Borns-Weil, S., Emmanuel, C., Longo, J., Kini, N., Barton, B., Smith, A., & Dodman, N. H. (2015). A case-control study of compulsive wool-sucking in Siamese and Birman cats (n = 204). Journal of Veterinary Behavior, 10(6), 543–548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jveb.2015.07.038

We really hope you enjoy this episode; it is packed with so much information!

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