Has anyone had success using alternative methods such as homeopathy, rawfood diet, etc. to help a cat who overgrooms due to stress? Smokey is 3, a fluffy grey lion-like friendly DHL. He used to be indoor/outdoor, but for the next 6 months or so, he needs to live indoors in the small room we are staying in, in an urban area, until our rural apartment becomes available. The frustration makes him obsessively overgroom, and in fact, the stress chemicals likely even make his skin itchy. (too urban to let him outdoors safely, several mean tomcats in the 'hood also... and letting him out on a harness only makes him more frustrated the following day as he wants to roam freely)
I brush him, feed a mainly canned Friskies diet, (he's not interested in the grain free, even when I sprinkle FortiFlora on it) have toys for him and play with him as well. I'd get him a DAP diffuser, but he's already marked the walls with his cheek glands here, as we've been here 3 months. Homeopathy? Switch to all raw like Primal? (can only manage ground, I'm legally blind with some residual vision)
Ideas? Thank you!
I brush him, feed a mainly canned Friskies diet, (he's not interested in the grain free, even when I sprinkle FortiFlora on it) have toys for him and play with him as well. I'd get him a DAP diffuser, but he's already marked the walls with his cheek glands here, as we've been here 3 months. Homeopathy? Switch to all raw like Primal? (can only manage ground, I'm legally blind with some residual vision)
Ideas? Thank you!