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Can you make homemade relaxation spray for cats?

I have been told by many Catsters that using cat relaxation sprays will be very beneficial when introducing a new cat to my resident cat next week. The only problem is I live overseas so my options are limited. Does anyone have a recipe of some sort to make a homemade spray? I don't even know if a homemade spray even exists but I thought I would give it a try! Oh my soon to be new cats name is Farrah and she is 6 years old! We're so excited to bring in another angel!!!

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Congratulations on your new baby! As we wrote about yesterday, and in my own experience, "calming sprays" or plug-ins are fine, but not all you need to do to socialize a new cat into your home. Farra must be kept separate from Hazel, as we said. The process make take up to a week or longer before you can effect supervised visits between the 2 cats. Enlist the aid of a local humane society or vet for advice on socialization and introductions. I've heard that lavendar can have a calming effect on humans and perhaps on animals as well. However, cats are super sensitve to odors and what we may think is OK may be way too "fragrant" for them. Or, it may not have an effect at all. Before you bring Farrah home, do some internet research on introducing a new cat into your home. Just google it and read what is said. This process will take time and patience and won't be easy, but if done right, in the end you'll have 2 precious angels instead of 1! Good luck!

Izadore (Izzie) answered on Jan 4th.

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I don't have any recipes but tread very carefully if you're going to try mixing anything up and spraying it around or especially on your pet. Nothing with alcohol or essential oils should be sprayed on the kitties and you have to go very light on the essential oils if you are spraying or diffusing them anywhere around the cats because with their small systems and fragile livers cats are probably about 50 times more sensitive to them than we are. What is a nice therapeutic dose for a human can be dangerous for a cat. If it smells strong to you it's probably too strong for them. If you do spray anything scented make sure it's only in one room at a time and both cats can get away from it if they need to. The best thing to do is give your vet a call if you find a recipe you want to try and get their okay on it before using it.

Cali answered on 1/4/12. Helpful? / 0

Most of the products are available online. Do you have relatives in the US that you could ship it to and then have them ship it to Germany for you? This stuff is supposed to be good. www.bachflower.com I used a calming collar for Carly www.amazon.com combined with slow introductions as recommended here www.humanesociety.org She's still working on things but she had 9 other cats to get used to. But she's made a lot of progress. Hopefully Farrah will do just fine! Good luck!!

Carly answered on 1/4/12. Helpful? / 0

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