If you're sneezing around your cat or your eyes get really itchy, you might have a cat allergy. Here's what to do.
Category: Cat Behavior | Comfort Zone
If you've ever brought a box into your house, you might have seen your cat quickly jump inside and make the box into a new home. Here's why cats find boxes so intriguing.
Category: Cat Behavior | Comfort Zone
Are Christmas trees dangerous for cats? They can be if you're not careful. Here are 11 ways to cat-proof your Christmas tree and keep your cats safe during the holidays.
Category: Cats & The Holidays | Comfort Zone
With thoughtful preparation, your home can be a happy place for your feline during the holidays.
Category: Cats & The Holidays | Comfort Zone
Should you let your indoor cat go outside? If you're worried, here are some safe ways your cat can have fun in the outdoors.
Category: Cat Stress & Anxiety | Comfort Zone
If you have a problem with cat spraying, it's time for more than just another round of furniture cleaning. You need a solution – fast.
Category: Urine Spraying | Comfort Zone
Many of us like to take our furry friends with us when we travel. Whether by airplane, train, or car, any kind of travel can upset your cat and cause stress behaviors.
Category: Travel | Comfort Zone
From increased security procedures to extra fees for checking baggage, the logistics of airline travel have become more complicated over the years.
Category: Travel | Comfort Zone
As much as you might like to have your kitty join you on vacation, cats are creatures of habit and probably won't care much for the change of routine and change of scenery that a vacation offers.
Category: Travel | Comfort Zone
Bring up pheromones in casual conversation and the responses might range from puzzlement to musings about whether those “pheromone perfumes” can really make you irresistible to the opposite sex.
Category: Pheromones | Comfort Zone
How exciting to bring a new puppy into the family! But no matter how exciting it is for you, remember that leaving the shelter or the breeder might be tough on your little guy.
Category: New Pet | Comfort Zone
Thinking about adopting a new furry friend? Congratulations! To make sure it's a great fit all the way around, ask yourself some important questions before you head to the shelter or breeder.
Category: New Pet | Comfort Zone
Before bringing your new kitty home, you should be prepared with some supplies. It's best to have all supplies ready before the first time your new pet enters the house because he should be able to immediately begin exploring and get used to things.
Category: New Pet | Comfort Zone
Are you having a baby and worried about how your cat might behave when you bring the baby home? Or, are you thinking about adopting a new pet and are concerned how your cat might respond?
Category: New Pet | Comfort Zone
No matter where you decide to obtain your cat and whether you decide on a purebred or a moggy, it's important to ask lots of questions.
Category: New Pet | Comfort Zone
A new pet: What a wonderful moment for you and your family! But sometimes, it can be stressful for your sweet new cat.
Category: New Pet | Comfort Zone
It’s summertime, and the living’s easy…right? Bring on the beach vacations, road trips, and fun family visits! But be aware that, from a pet’s point of view, traditional summer activities can bring some new stresses.
Category: Multi-Pet Behavior | Comfort Zone
Have you ever wondered what behaviors are normal for your cat or dog, and which ones indicate they’re under stress? Sometimes it can be tricky to identify which is which.
Category: Multi-Pet Behavior | Comfort Zone
Cats are naturally independent creatures that like to be in control of their environment, and prefer to have a certain structure to their surroundings.
Category: Multi-Pet Behavior | Comfort Zone
There are straight-forward steps that cat owners can take to help eliminate aggressive behavior, improve environmental enrichment, and even help their cats like one another.
Category: Multi-Cat Tension | Comfort Zone
Millions of households in America have more than one cat. However, because cats are solitary creatures, they don't like to share or take turns with food, water, bedding, litter box time, and time with you.
Category: Multi-Cat Tension | Comfort Zone
Dogs have feelings, too, and respond to certain stressful situations by trembling, shaking, or shivering. It could be that he's happy (Yay! You're home from work!), or it could signal fear or stress.
Category: Dog Stress & Anxiety | Comfort Zone
Many breeds of dogs are high energy and never seem to calm down. But there's a difference between high-energy and restlessness.
Category: Dog Stress & Anxiety | Comfort Zone
Barking is common in shelters and boarding kennels for exactly these reasons. Dogs are pack animals that, by nature, will try to seek comfort or a playmate if they are lonely or bored.
Category: Dog Stress & Anxiety | Comfort Zone
We all love a cooling summer rainstorm, but thunderstorms can be very stressful for dogs. Why? Because loud noises and changes in barometric pressure are felt differently by dogs than humans, and dogs with noise phobias tend to suffer the most.
Category: Dog Stress & Anxiety | Comfort Zone
Moving is a stressful time. Your cats could be experiencing that stress right along with you.
Category: Cat Stress & Anxiety | Comfort Zone
As loving cat owners, we want to do everything we can to optimize our cat’s happiness. Keeping a cat’s stress levels at a minimum means a happier cat, but also a cat with fewer stress-related behavior issues.
Category: Cat Stress & Anxiety | Comfort Zone
Summertime often means fireworks, and that's a popular time for dog owners to seek help with their pet's sensitivity to loud noises.
Category: Dog Stress & Anxiety | Comfort Zone
While there are so many things to love about our furry friends, fervent cat scratching can drive us up a wall. When a cat has whittled down its scratching post to a nub and has moved on to the living room furniture, many cat owners consider declawing.
Category: Cat Scratching | Comfort Zone
Dogs are social creatures and like to be with a group. If your dog is not sick, but he's hiding in a corner, under the bed, or behind the furniture, chances are he's stressed out.
Category: Dog Stress & Anxiety | Comfort Zone
Because dogs are social animals, puppies may become very attached to you or someone in your family, following you around the house, and becoming increasingly upset if they can't be near you at all times.
Category: Dog Stress & Anxiety | Comfort Zone
Dogs are social animals, and don't like to be left behind — either from the pack of dogs (despite being domesticated, this is their natural instinct) or their new pack of humans.
Category: Dog Stress & Anxiety | Comfort Zone
Panting is a normal function for dogs. It's how a dog cools down and settles his breathing after exercise or being outside in the heat. Dogs also sometimes pant when they are nervous.
Category: Dog Stress & Anxiety | Comfort Zone
Whether it's from improper socialization as a puppy or negative experiences prior to him joining your family, cowering (crouching down in fear) is something to be concerned about.
Category: Dog Stress & Anxiety | Comfort Zone
Cats are territorial animals, and changes in their home can cause stress. Whether you're moving into a new home with your cat, or you're having renovations done on your current home, cats are territorial animals that like to have some semblance of control over their surroundings.
Category: Cat Stress & Anxiety | Comfort Zone
Much as we love our cats, it’s incredibly stressful to come home to find your cat urinating where he or she is not supposed to. How do you deal with the mess…and the smell? Why is it happening? And what can you do to stop it?
Category: Urine Spraying | Comfort Zone
Thinking about welcoming a new cat to the family? Your local animal shelter is a great place to start. You’ll not only be saving a life, you’ll also be rewarded with years of love, companionship, and fun.
Category: New Pet | Comfort Zone
We all have visitors in our homes — sometimes just one or two folks and, other times, perhaps a party. While very normal for us, visitors can be very stressful for cats.
Category: Cat Stress & Anxiety | Comfort Zone
Dogs may bark, woof, or bow-wow in English, but other languages have other interpretations of the sound that dogs make, including waouh (in French), guau (Spanish), voff (Icelandic), wan (Japanese), and blaf (Dutch).
Category: Dog Stress & Anxiety | Comfort Zone
Cats need to scratch. They have retractable claws, which means there is a sheath within their paws that the claws retract into.
Category: Cat Scratching | Comfort Zone
Loud appliances like a vacuum cleaner, blender, lawnmower, or even a loud television can be very stressful for a dog. Dogs that are sensitive to noise to begin with might start to panic at even the slightest increase in general noise around the house.
Category: Dog Stress & Anxiety | Comfort Zone
The evidence is everywhere — the sofa, curtains, and even your walls: Your favorite feline is a scratcher! For all the meows, purrs, and cuddles, there's still a red flag raised when it comes to allowing your cat to cruise freely about the house.
Category: Cat Scratching | Comfort Zone
A DIY gift can be the purrrfect way of showing your cat-obsessed friends that you care about them and their fur babies.
Category: Cats & The Holidays | Comfort Zone