Science-backed guides on pet anxiety relief, enrichment products, and natural calming for dogs and cats. Every product is tested with our own animals — a Labrador named Charlie and a tortoiseshell named Luna — before it is recommended.
Twelve mats, five dogs, fourteen days of stickiness and panting. From gel pads to elevated cots — what actually held a body temperature down, what curled at the corners, and what Charlie refused to touch.
Licking releases endorphins. We tried five mats with Charlie before, during and after a thunderstorm. Two worked. Three peeled.
Ten fountains, seven cats, three weeks. Luna only drinks from one. Here is why that one — and why the popular plastic one is a trap.
No supplements, no thunder shirts. Five things that worked, in order of how reliably they worked. (Walks before food was a surprise.)
Up to 20% of cats show signs of stress-related behaviors when left alone. Here are the signals most owners miss.