I only skipped through because it seems to be a long advertorial of some kind.
That plugin cat hormone shit is a gimmick, all the expensive services she suggested are bullshit too.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 4 May 2023, 20:30,
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Didn't think it was that bad
The piece from about 4mins, give them their own space they can retreat to, could apply to teenagers. Though I'd draw the line at teenager trees.
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I've seen the plug-ins appear to work.
As for the expensive services, she is from California and rip off medical services are part of the 'merican way.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 5 May 2023, 13:48,
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I'm convinced it's just placebo for the owners and it does nothing for the cats.
My somewhat feral rescue cats calmed down over 3-6 months, but you would expect them to do that without a hormone plugin too.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 5 May 2023, 15:26,
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That's a bit of a non sequitur.
The synthetic feline hormone is not something humans can sense. Cats supposedly can, but I'm not convinced.
Our sense of smell evokes memories of our unique individual experiences. There is no known universally calming smell for humans. The same is most probably true for cats and most, if not all our other animal cousins.
Your cat probably likes its own cat-stink a lot more than the expensive odourless magic water from the pet shop. The pet shop has yet to find a way to sell you your own cats body odour in cartridge form but it would if it could.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 5 May 2023, 22:19,
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I didn't watch, and I didn't say hormones either.
Nor do I have a cat. Pretty sure it's actually a pheromone, which apparently works really well according to my cat-owning friend. I'm told that the Feliway plugs give off something called "feline appeasing pheromone".
If humans can make musk, it's not too much of a stretch (to me) that there's a chemical that makes people feel a little less stressed. I mean, pheromones would hardly work if they were specific to the individual would they? Lavender is the common one, though it might well be a placebo. Hard to test that.
I defer to FCM.
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jonbob loves you, Sat 6 May 2023, 0:28,
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Oh yeah I meant pheromone rather than hormone, soz.
It is not proven that adult humans have adequate pheromone receptors. There's some info on the human vomeronasal organ debate here: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6050168/
Feliway is the very expensive magic water cartridge I'm talking about. There's a summary of Feliway research studies here: whatyourcatwants.com/feliway
There are chemicals (drugs, medicines) that make humans less stressed, but these chemicals are not pheromones that we can (or probably can't even) smell, and smell is not the direct medium by which these chemicals affect the brain. These chemicals also have fairly unique/non-uniform effects on individuals.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sat 6 May 2023, 20:18,
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I guess it would depend on the concentration, quality.
I don't see why not, plenty of odours have negative effects.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 5 May 2023, 16:35,
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