Posted by Liligoth on November 8, 2003, at 5:52:16
In reply to cats on drugs, posted by pixygoth on November 6, 2003, at 11:58:23
> This is very interesting stuff... I'd normally (i think) worry about the ethics of this kinda thing, but cats being "skittish" anyway..
> and what do you lot think of how the drugs work on the cats as opposed to on us? Maybe (this is guessing..!) they can get a "general" effect without the sideffects we can get due to our higher cognitive processes? I'm definitely not knocking cat-intelligence, but they for sure don't sit and worry or fret or obsess, right?
> just thoughts. I'm cheered that reading all this stuff has brought me a bit up from the sh*tty way I've felt all day...
> S x
I read something recently that claimed cats are thought to have the intelligence of a 2 year old child! About them not worrying & obsessing - she does also have ocd issues & has always been a self-mutilater. The drugs are helping with that too so I think she is much happier on them. We did all the right things & kept them separate in the beginning & we used the vanilla essence thing & that worked quite well. It was only after they were living together & things were ok for a while that they started to go downhill.
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