Essential Oils and Pheromones
There are two methods to calm your pet without using medication:
- essential oils and
- pheromones.
Both essential oils and pheromones reach the deepest, oldest portion of your pet’s brain called the rhinencephalon. The rhinencephalon influences your pet without its being aware of what is happening. This gentle influence is especially effective with anxious, worried, depressed, or geriatric pets.
Among the systems the rhinencephalon influences are emotions, digestion, immune function, breathing rate and depth, and focus. Here, for example, are
essential oils that reduce anxiety:
- chamomile,
- lavender, and
- orange blossom.
These two essential oils calm and reduce agitation:
- lavender and
- lemon balm.
In contrast, these essential oils brighten pets’ moods:
- almond extract,
- lavender, and
- vanilla.
An essential oil that can energize is
- rosemary.
Pheromones
Pheromones work rather like essential oils in that they influence the first cranial nerve, the Olfactory Nerve. The Olfactory Nerve carries signals to the rhinencephalon and deep parts of the brain before it carries signals to the cerebral cortex where pets register what they have smelled.
Feliway is a pheromone that reaches a cat’s brains and reduces anxiety and agitation, rather as chamomile, lavender, lemon balm, and orange blossom do. This helps cats in multi-cat households get along better. Feliway also helps cats that urinate outside the litter box because they are anxious.
For dogs, DAP is the pheromone that reduces anxiety. D.A.P. is especially helpful when combined with behavior training to help dogs become less anxious when left home alone.
Pheromones and essential oils are ideal products to use with senior pets because they do not require extra work from the kidneys and liver, which is normally required by pharmaceutical calming medications such as diazepam or Clomicalm. Pheromones and essential oils are also ideal for pets on multiple medications because they don’t interfere with medications in any way.
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