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Cat Music!
Our good friend Maru sent me this article today about cat music.
Now don't get me wrong, cats DO like music. I have always played music for my hospitalized and boarding pets. Cats prefer soft jazz and classical. It keeps everyone calm. If a 'normal' rock station is played, tension seems to been seen more frequently.
Even better is those CD's that have water running or rainforest noises. I am a total believer in pets and music. *Scott won't let me have the radio on all day for my cats, just like he thinks they don't need a night light either ;)*
Cats, especially single cat households, even dogs, do very well with music or even the WEATHER CHANNEL! Why the weather channel? Well, it has nice music*elevator* and soft spoken people just talking. No action. It makes it SEEM like someone is home. This does help with anxiety.
So don't knock music for pets. I have personally seen it work.
My cats don't seem to notice music, maybe because I have it on most of the time, but I did have a cat that acted nervous whenever I played Bach, expecially if it was the Toccata and Fugue in D minor (understandable) or the Cello Suites. (go figure! cats are weird)
Posted by: Lynn on August 30, 2002 07:59 PMI have a Brookstone white noise machine, which has several choices of background noise. I can't play the rainforest one, because my cats run around the house looking for the birds. Drives 'em crazy.
Hm. Haven't done that in a long, long time....
Posted by: Meryl Yourish on September 2, 2002 06:13 PM