How Music Solves Cat Behavior Problems

Soothing the Savage Kitty...with Music!

I came across this article, where a woman describes how she uses music to allay her kitty's fearful states:  Music Therapy for Cats

Pleasant music can mask scary noises like thunder, or upsetting sounds like a trespassing cat’s meows, hisses and snarls that put your pet’s tail in a twist. But more than that, the cadence of certain sounds influences the body’s natural rhythms and can speed them up and energize the listener, or slow them down to calm him.



Can you think of any instances when soothing music could have helped your pet (and you!) better survive a stressful situation?

Puddy Girl starts out unhappy ...

and ends up calm as a koala.

Taking Puddy Girl to the vet can be stressful—on her!  She always lets me know when she's upset.  It's one of the rare cases in which said female feline voices her displeasure, and she does so LOUD and CLEAR.  I stumbled onto a solution for keeping her calm, which may be of interest to those of you who know the terrors a stressed pet can introduce.