Pet Naturals Calming Chews for Cats, 30 Chews - Behavioral Support and Anxiety Relief for Travel, Boarding, Vet Visits and High Stress Situations

Works as described! My cat has always been terrified of thunderstorms. Always. These help keep him calm so he doesn't panic and get sick everywhere! I give it to him about 30 mins before I know bad weather is starting OR as soon as the bad weather starts and it helps tremendously! No more hiding and crying under the couch! He actually enjoys watching the rain once the treats start working! These are definitely our favorite calm down treats. He doesn't get them daily and he only gets one at a time. He's a Nebelung cat and quite large. Not fat but just a big cat lol I've never needed to give him more than one at a time!

Our young adult cat sometimes has an excess of kitten energy, to the point of being a problem. These chews take a bit of the edge off her behavior, without making her seem drugged. She's just a tad calmer, but with her alertness and playfulness intact. Unfortunately, she will not eat them (she just never eats treats of any kind), but we grind them to powder in a mortar and pestle and mix it into her wet food.UPDATE: When we first adopted our cat, she had gone through stress at the shelter and before, and they were giving her prescription calming aids. We didn't want to drug her, but started giving her these chews, which seemed to take the edge off, so we continued. Recently she started acting more anxious, a bit aggressive, restless, and perhaps even hallucinating. We gave her a double dose of the chew and it seemed worse, so we stopped it completely. Now she is so much calmer, getting on our laps again, just generally back to the sweet cat she had been. I don't know why, but it's pretty clear she started having a paradoxical reaction to the chews. After looking into it, people can react that way to l-theanine, with anxiety rather than being calmer, so it may be the l-theanine. It doesn't seem like colostrum or thiamine would do that. We dealt with a paradoxical reaction in another cat, but it was to Xanax, which literally (and I'm using "literally" in the correct way) had her climbing the walls all night.

I started slow with my cat, he is 16 pounds. I gave him one or two and they worked so well at first. I was floored, he was an angel on a drive around the block. Next day, I had to take him on a train and I upped it to around 5. They wore off after 20 minutes, so I upped to around 12. Worked amazing, my cat loves the treats and didn’t mind eating more to cope with his feelings.But then… I had them in a bag on a shelf. He loved these treats so much that he jumped up on the shelf and pulled them out of the bag. I came home to a cat ten times hyper than I ever saw him as a kitten. At first, I was nervous of him getting sick as he tore open the bag and ate an unknown amount. But he was fine… just WIRED. The opposite of the intention of the treats.Hopefully, it’s just a little intense for a night and it wears off, but beware - cats go nuts if they get too hungry for the treats.

I was moving halfway across the country with a cat who had previously exhibited traveling anxiety just going to the vet. He's an indoor cat, but I couldn't afford to take him to the vet and pay for the expensive stuff, so this is what we tried. He has no problem in being interested in them! He seemed to enjoy them and they seemed to help him. He made an eleven hour car trip like a champ without one single problem. It didn't cause him to be drowsy or lethargic, just not cowering under a chair, freaking out.This is a really good product! Worked even better than expected!

I have a 15+ year old cat who's been with me for the majority of my life. She's been with me since childhood and when the time came for me to move out of my parent's place - the cat came with me. However as my cat is getting older, her behavior is also changing. What was once a relatively chill and calm cat who helped me manage my anxiety with her presence and only really meowed loudly/excessively when necessary, has developed a habit of yowling at all hours of the night while I'm trying to sleep, when I'm on the phone and when I need to work (my work involves recording/filming, making this meow-bombing very inconvenient). The cat also has a clean bill of health, making this new behavior doubly strange...Granted, I fully accept the cat has her own anxiety: she had anxiety during the initial move, she's the only pet in the household, she's become a cat living with 3 or 4 humans to a cat living with one. My work either involves me going out to work or bunkering down at my computer doing work for hours at a time, but the classic "just spend more time with the cat/make her feel special" hasn't been too effective at stopping the yowling either. She has a full bowl of food, full bowl of water, plenty of toys she doesn't really use (again - older cat) - so what's with the loud meowing?I figured now would be the time to get calming treats - if this cat loves anything, it's food (and treats are cheaper than an air diffuser). Sadly, these treats were the first result and I've come to the conclusion that either the treats only have a 50% effectiveness rate or that my cat may just be too old for these treats to be effective...Some nights, she'll get a single calming treat before bed and I sleep like a baby without getting woken up at 4am by meow-bombing. Other nights (even after one or two treats), I'll be hearing the song of her people... Even while trying to work during the day, the treats can't seem to keep the cat quiet or calm enough - her cute, normal, healthy meows replaced with howls that can't be healthy for her and throw a wrench in our human and cat roommate relationship... No amount of talking softly, petting or bonding with her will stop the meowling.Granted, these treats are NOT a sedative - I didn't want a sedative for the cat. I just wanted a treat that had the right ingredients that would reduce whatever feeling is making my cat howl and cry out for the cat gods of mythology. But again: these treats' effectiveness might just be a coin flip or my cat is just too old.As it's my first time using calming treats at all, this has been pretty discouraging and while I will continue looking for something that can help my cat and prevent her from meowing herself sick - I'm going to be a lot more apprehensive about it and won't be buying these again. I'm just happy she seems to like the taste - so at least they're still functional as normal cat treats for her.

My cat has been ripping his bum hair out lately because our senior dog died. He is extremely stressed and hates the donut/cone so I tried these, they worked in about 20 minutes or so. Kitty calmed right down. I'll tell you though that the smell of these chews is horrible and he wouldn't eat it until i hid it in his usual treats.