Well....sorta. But he doesn't use very good grammar.
Here, I just now found this at DrudgeReport:
Cats suffer stress, experts say
The study was carried out by the university's vet studies school
Cats can suffer from stress-related illness like humans, a study by animal experts suggests.
Rivalry with another cat is the biggest source of feline anxiety closely followed by moving home or the arrival of a new member of the owner's family.
Experts compared 31 cats with bladder disease to 24 healthy cats in the same households and used a control group of 125 other healthy cats.
Sick cats generally got more stressed by other cats in the house, they said.
Stress trigger
Dr Danielle Gunn-Moore, senior lecturer in feline medicine at Edinburgh University's school of veterinary studies, said feline lower urinary tract disease was frustrating for vets and owners because most cases had no apparent cause.
"This group of diseases of the bladder is most commonly seen in pedigree, middle-aged, overweight male cats which don't..."
more at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3956833.stm(The article points out that cats are very sensitive; and another cat around is very stressful for them.
When ours, as a young adult, came first to our house, in a new home for her, she immediately made a beeline for one of the bedrooms, and diarrhea all over the footrug.
It was a lesson to me in how unaware I am of stress in others - in this case, of course, just a cat. But it's the same for humans.
If you went to totally new surroundings, all alone, not knowing your new owners... It'd be very scary. What are going to do to me?? Like getting an abortion, I guess.
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