Always consult with your veterinarian before beginning a Feliway treatment.

Do not spray Feliway directly onto your cat! Pheromones are powerful substances, and you could end up confusing and irritating your cat.  Don’t even wrap a bandana sprayed with Feliway on your cat’s neck – it will confuse it immensely.

Make sure to clean up every urinated area before applying Feliway.  By eliminating the bad scent and replacing it with a good scent, you will put your cat at ease.  However, the combination of positive pheromones and the strange pee smell will not be as effective.  When cleaning the urine, try not to use strong-smelling substances.  Just try to think of it as a scent-based medicine – if the scent of Feliway is troubled in any way, it won’t work.

When in a home with multiple cats, you need to double or even triple your Feliway spraying, and perhaps even have two or three diffusers going at once.

Do not ingest Feliway.  Do not place Feliway on your skin.  Keep Feliway away from open flames.  Do not spray Feliway in your eyes.  Do not use Feliway on other animals.  Keep away from children.  This is a pharmaceutical for cats and should be treated with care and respect.  Use your best judgment.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  This information is provided for educational purposes only and is intended to be a supplement to, and not a substitute for, the expertise and professional judgment of your veterinarian. You should always consult your own veterinarian for specific advice concerning the treatment of your pet.

Store Feliway at room temperature.  Don’t place it near anything that could ignite.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  This information is provided for educational purposes only and is intended to be a supplement to, and not a substitute for, the expertise and professional judgment of your veterinarian. You should always consult your own veterinarian for specific advice concerning the treatment of your pet.

What is Feliway?

If your cat is clawing furniture, urinating randomly all over the house, or expressing overly aggressive behavior, he or she may be suffering from stress-related issues.  Stress, to a cat, means a sense of insecurity about his or her territory.  Feliway is designed to give a cat a sense of security about every object it’s sprayed on, so he or she doesn’t feel the need to pee on, claw or attack said objects.  It also contains a more calming version of catnip known as “Valeriana officinalis,” which further helps the cat with its stress problems.

The active ingredient in Feliway is a combination of calming feline facial pheromones.  Pheromones are basically the cat’s internal chemical triggers – they make cats do everything they do.  They are triggered by outdoor cats peeing on the outside wall, loud noises, visits to the vet, home reorganizations, or anything else that upsets the cats’ sense of normalcy.  However, when Feliway is sprayed onto a vertical surface or onto specific pee spots in the house, it convinces the cat that everything is okay, and that he or she doesn’t need to act out stress responses.  You will notice success when your cat begins purring rubbing his or her head against the surfaces sprayed with Feliway instead of getting into trouble.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  This information is provided for educational purposes only and is intended to be a supplement to, and not a substitute for, the expertise and professional judgment of your veterinarian. You should always consult your own veterinarian for specific advice concerning the treatment of your pet.

Feliway Dosages and Instructions

Feliway comes in three forms: a spray bottle, a diffuser bottle, and a travel-size wipe.  All three are good to have in a home, but you should especially get a diffuser bottle if you have multiple cats causing havoc.

Diffuser bottles plug into the wall and immediately the room starts to be permeated by the calming cat pheromone.  This is a diffuse mist rather than a concentrated spray, so you need to leave it on continuously for up to four weeks, until it’s time to get a new diffuser.  It covers a normal-sized room of approximately 500-650 square feet.  As always, use common sense – don’t place it behind a door or curtain.  You want as much of the room to be permeated by the cat-calming mist.

For more concentrated spots, you want to use the spray bottle.  If the neighbor cat pees on the side of your house, clean it thoroughly and then hit it with a spray of concentrated Feliway.  If your cat likes to demolish your couch, hit the leg of that couch with the spray bottle.  You’ll be surprised at how your cat’s attitude changes toward the furniture with a few judicious uses of Feliway.  Of course, you have to make sure that you don’t overdo it.  Just a single squirt daily at marked spots will help to train your cat not to pee or claw there.

To sum it up, plug the diffuser bottles in and let them get to work.  With the squirt bottle and the wipes, attack problem spots once a day for a month or two, and watch your cat’s personality slowly change.  Generally it will take up to three months to completely retrain your cat not to scratch and pee.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  This information is provided for educational purposes only and is intended to be a supplement to, and not a substitute for, the expertise and professional judgment of your veterinarian. You should always consult your own veterinarian for specific advice concerning the treatment of your pet.

Very rarely, cats will suffer an adverse pheromonal reaction to Feliway.  If you notice your cat behaving abnormally after you begin your Feliway regimen, stop spraying immediately and contact your veterinarian.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  This information is provided for educational purposes only and is intended to be a supplement to, and not a substitute for, the expertise and professional judgment of your veterinarian. You should always consult your own veterinarian for specific advice concerning the treatment of your pet.

It is very difficult to misdose with Feliway as long as you don’t spray your cats with it.  If you accidentally spray yourself or your cat, make sure to wash it out immediately with soap and water.  The pheromone is not poisonous, but it can be confusing to the cat, and the high alcohol content can be painful.

If you spray too much in a particular area, simply wash it up with gentle-smelling substances and spray a little less.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  This information is provided for educational purposes only and is intended to be a supplement to, and not a substitute for, the expertise and professional judgment of your veterinarian. You should always consult your own veterinarian for specific advice concerning the treatment of your pet.

No known adverse drug interactions to consider when using Feliway.  However, if you are also administering some sort of hormone or pheromone therapy to your cat in tandem, you want to alert your vet beforehand.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  This information is provided for educational purposes only and is intended to be a supplement to, and not a substitute for, the expertise and professional judgment of your veterinarian. You should always consult your own veterinarian for specific advice concerning the treatment of your pet.