Sickness behaviors in response to unusual external events in healthy cats and cats with feline interstitial cystitis

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-73

  Stella, Judi L ^a   Lord, Linda K ^a   Buffington, C A Tony ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CAT; CAT DISEASE; FEMALE; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; MALE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CYSTITIS, INTERSTITIAL; FEMALE; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; MALE;

ANIMALIA; FELIDAE;

EID: 79551605993     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.238.1.67     Document Type: Article

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