FELIWAY Classic Cat Calming Pheromone Travel Spray (20 mL)

This stuff smells like a nice, clean, healthy cat: kind of bready, maybe a little dust, and warm. If you like cat smell this is the genuine article. Aside from that, the cats seem to tolerate vet visits a little more with this. Does not help as much with dementia if you have one that gets a little lost and howls for you but she seems a little calmer. It’s a better value than the plugin if you just need some here and there for otherwise content animals. Really well-built sprayer and cap, sprays a fine mist for even coating. If your cats respond to Feliway at the vet, it’s worth a shot for stressful situations.

We have used Feliway spray when traveling by car for 3 cats on a 2,000 mile trip and back again. If it is sprayed liberally (more than the directions state) in the carrier and on the bedding and given time to dry, even the most vocal of cats will be relaxed and calm. The first time we used it, one of our cats took about 40 minutes to calm down as he "talks" the most, but the other 2 cats didn't make a sound from the very beginning. However, I found if I spray a little extra in his carrier and wait about 20 minutes and give it another light spray, allow to dry and put him in, he too becomes calm and quiet. All 3 cats remained calm and quiet for 10-12 hours at a time in the car. When traveling, we feed them wet food early in the evening on arrival to the hotel. When they've finished the wet food, we leave only dry food and water through the night. We take the dry food and water up in the morning and spray the carriers at that time so they have time to dry. We give the cats a final chance to use the liter box if needed, while we have breakfast. When we return from breakfast, we put them in the carrier (which has already been sprayed with Feliway and allowed to dry) and load them in the car. They do not eat or use the liter box while traveling in the car and remain in their carriers the entire time. They have no issues and as mentioned, remain calm and quiet for 10 or more hours while we are driving. I do use the Feliway diffuser when in hotel rooms. And because it takes a while for the diffuser to work, the cats are not as calm in strange hotel rooms. Without the spray product, travel with our beloved furry friends would be much more difficult, if not impossible.

I was first introduced to this product at my vet's office and one of my cats, and older guy who has inflammatory bowel disease, really thought it was awesome (they sprayed it on a towel they had put on the exam room table). He licked and rubbed himself all over the towel. Well, now he has some additional problems as a side effect of his medications and condition, and he has to go back and forth to the vet and the ophthalmologist a lot (like a couple of times a week), and that can be pretty stressful on him. I don't want him to be stressed out because he already has hypertension and I don't want to make it worse! So I bought this to use on a towel that I put at the bottom of his pet carries. And I think it is helping.I did not have any luck with the Comfort Zone spray, but this one seems better. I took my cat to the vet for bloodwork and a blood pressure reading yesterday and he did really well! And his blood pressure reading was in the normal range, whereas it had been about twice normal at the emergency vet last week, so I think this is helping keep him calmed down. (I don't think it's the only thing -- his medications are working so he is feeling better -- but I believe in attacking the problem from all sides to get the best result, and this is one more tool!)This does have an alcohol base (probably necessary to dissolve the active ingredient). I wish it didn't, but that may be the only thing that will work for the pheromones in this product. So, ideally you would spray it on something (cat bed, towel, blanket, etc.) and let it sit for a few minutes while the alcohol evaporates. (I tried spraying it near my cat to see his reaction, before I realized the alcohol was a problem, and he didn't like it. But he *did* like a towel that had been sprayed and allowed to sit for a moment.)So anyway, this is working better for my cat than the Comfort Zone spray, and I will be getting a lot of use out of it as we travel back and forth to my cat's vet appointments in the coming weeks. (Hopefully not too many more of those.) I'll also be using it for taking my other cats to the vet for their annual exams and vaccinations.