Hello. I'm Dr. Jane Matheys from The Cat Doctor Veterinary Hospital and Hotel in Boise, Idaho. I'm going to be answering a few questions today from the Facebook page of Pets Best Insurance.
Our first question is from Molly. She asks, "My [inaudible 0:17] Mason has gotten in the habit of biting things; the corner of my wooden cabinet, knobs on my drawers, sponges, and my sink faucets in the bathrooms, which is the strangest thing. Could it be a dental issue or just a weird habit he's picked up along the way?"
I don't often see kitties with dental disease chewing on things but I would definitely recommend that you have your veterinarian take a look at the teeth and give your kitty a physical just to make sure there are not any medical problems going on. Quite often it's just a habit that they pick up for who knows what reason.
A lot of times kitties can be destructive if they're chewing on things so what I recommend is that you try one of the products from the pet stores that is a bitter-tasting spray that you can apply to those objects. That will teach him not to chew on things like that and hopefully break that habit of his.
The next question is from Mimi, and she says, "Do female cats get hot flashes like us women do?"
Thankfully for the kitties, to our knowledge, no. We don't really know for sure, though, because first of all, the cats can't tell us whether they're going through hot flashes, and secondly, most of our kitties are spayed so they don't have their reproductive organs and we don't see any symptoms like that. Thanks for the fun question.
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