The renowned journal Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery have recently published a research report from Louisiana State University.
Here is a group of researchers looked at whether music can make cats less stressed.
In the summary, write the researchers that the cats that were exposed to kattespesifikk music before and during the surveys were associated with lower stress-score (CSS).
In the contrary they had not the same result by subjecting the cats to silence, or ordinary classical music.
Bjarne Braastad is a professor in the etologi at the Norwegian environment – and biovitenskapelige university (NMBU). He believes the findings could have something for themselves.
It seems convincing. Here they found when a stress reducing effect by the use of kattemusikk. CSS-the number provides an indication that the cat have a calmer behavior. It is positive, even if one is not able to measure a pure physiological effect, ” he says.
Here you can check about the song from the experiment have no effect on your cat:
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Braastad believe there is much that suggests that it is hold in the findings. Previously been made to similar studies on for example chickens and pigs.
– This works as a nice supplement to soothe cats at a clinic or on the venteværelset. Many cats are unsafe in new places and situations. To calm the cats before a treatment is very important, ” he says.
Braastads own cat has already gotten a taste of the music.
Professor Bjarne Braastad believe the findings in this study may have some merit.
Photo: Audun Braastad
I played a bit of this music for my cat for a half-hour ago. It is pretty quiet, so it was not immediately easy to trace any effect.
Even though the professor’s own cat is quiet, he believes the music first and foremost, it is important for cats that are more nervous in the first place.
According to those who produce the music, it can seem especially good for cats that are husløse. These are cats that are very nervous by nature. Where they see the strongest effect, and it suggests the that it has effect.
He also believes that music can have very good effect on kattepensjonat or when you get a new cat in the household.
Play your music on vet clinic
In Bodø have a veterinarian and co-owner of Dyrelegene Bodø, Linda Hill Bøe received with the news. She has already put the video on repeat in one of the rooms.
We have put on this song in one of our rooms. It is a relatively pleasant mood there now, ” says Bøe.
She read even the article in the american magazine and thought at once that this was something they had to try out.
a Veterinarian and co-owner Linda Hill Experts in Veterinary Bodø has already tested out the music at the clinic.
Photo: Ola Helness / NRK
Many cat owners do not see that the cats are stressed. When we take samples of a stressed animal, it can affect the prøvesvar. In addition, they can handle the diseases worse. To remove the stress may be to tilt vektskåla in the cat’s favor.
Now pays the veterinarian a challenge to the also Norwegian artists to try their hand at kattevennlige songs.
There are many pleasant kattemennesker that also operate with the music. It had been amazing if we could have caught cat friendly music, ” she says.
For the sake informs we about that Linda Hill Boe is married with distriktsredaktør Eivind Undrum Jacobsen in NRK Nordland.
