Clinical Trial of a Feline Pheromone Analogue for Feline Urine Marking

Journal of Veterinary Medical Science

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 157-161

  Ogata, Niwako ^a   Takeuchi, Yukari ^b  

^a Veterinary Behavior Clinic FAU   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Feline; Intercat aggression; Pheromone treatment; Spraying; Urine marking

Indexed keywords

FELIDAE; FELIS CATUS;

PHEROMONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CAT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; JAPAN; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; URINE;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; CATS; ELIMINATIVE BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; JAPAN; MALE; PHEROMONES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0035259916     PISSN: 09167250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1292/jvms.63.157     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Borchelt, P. L. and Voith, V. L. 1996. Elimination behavior problems in cats. pp. 179-190. In: Readings in Companion Animal Behavior (Voith, V. L. and Borchelt, P. L. eds.), Veterinary Learning Systems, Trenton.
2. Cooper, L. and Hart, B. L. 1992. Comparison of diazepam with progestin for effectiveness in suppression of urine spraying behavior in cats. J. Am. Vet. Med. Assoc. 200: 797-801.
3. Dehasse, J. 1997. Feline urine spraying. Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. 52: 365-371.
4. Frank, D., Erb, H. N. and Houpt, K. A. 1999. Urine spraying in cats: presence of concurrent disease and effects of a pheromone treatment. Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. 61: 263-272.
5. Hart, B. L. and Cooper, L. L. 1984. Factors relating to urine spraying and fighting in prepubertally gonadectomized cats. J. Am. Vet. Med. Assoc. 184: 1255-1258.
6. Hart, B. L., Eckstein, R. A., Powell, K. L. and Dodman, N. H. 1993. Effectiveness of buspirone on urine spraying and inappropriate urination in cats. J. Am. Vet. Med. Assoc. 203: 254-258.
7. Hart, B. L. and Cliff, K. D. 1996. Interpreting published results of extra-label drug use with special reference to reports of drugs used to correct problem behavior in animals. J. Am. Vet. Med. Assoc. 209: 1382-1385.
8. Hunthausen, W. 2000. Evaluating a feline facial pheromone analogue to control urine spraying. Vet. Med. 95: 151-155.
9. Kerby, G. and Macdonald, D. W. 1988. Cat society and the consequences of colony size. pp. 67-81. In: The Domestic Cat: The Biology of Its Behaviour (Turner, D. C. and Bateson, P. eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
10. Lansberg, G., Hunthausen, W. and Ackerman, L. 1997. Handbook of Behavior Problems of the Dog and Cat. Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford.
11. Overall, K. L. 1998. Tracing the roots of feline elimination disorders to aggression. Vet. Med. 93: 363-366.
12. Pageat, P. 1996. Functions and use of the facial pheromones in the treatment of urine marking in the cat; interest of a structural analogue, pp. 197-198. In: Proceedings and Abstracts of the XXI Congress of the World Small Animal Vet. Assoc. (Johnson, D. and Waner, T. eds.)
13. Simpson, B. S. 1998. Feline Housesoiling. Part II. Urine and Fecal Marking. Compend. Contin. Educ. Pract. Vet. 20: 1331-1339.
14. Takeuchi, Y., Houpt, K. A. and Scarlett, J. M. 2000. Evaluation of treatments for separation anxiety in dogs. J. Am. Vet. Med. Assoc. 217: 342-345.
15. White, J. C. and Mills, D. S. 1997. Efficacy of synthetic facial pheromone (F3) analogue (Feliway) for the treatment of chronic non-sexual urine spraying by the domestic cat. p. 262. In: Proceedings of the First Conference on Veterinary Behavioural Medicine. Universities Federation for Animal Welfare, UK.