Purina Pro Plan Veterinary Diets Calming Care Cat Supplement, 30 count

My cat was on Prozac for anxiety and wasn't eating and also wasn't using the litter box. The vet found nothing wrong, so I took him off the Prozac (weaned him off with the vet's instructions) but my cat was still having these issues. I tried everything but then saw this stuff and thought that I'd give it a try. To my relief, he started eating (after finding the right wet food, too) and sprinkled this stuff on it every day. He started eating all his food every day and having regular bm's... and his mood went right back to his old self. Wish I found this (and the right food) sooner.

The calming effect seemed to work as soon as I started giving this to my cat (without making her sleepy or lethargic like other calming supplements sometimes do). I started out with just half a packet spread out throughout each day, mixed into her wet food, for a week. She ate it up just fine and her poop was initially fine, but then when I increased the amount just a little bit more, she started getting terrible runny diarrhea. She can be skittish at times, and with the probiotic, she wasn't skittish at all. The main issue aside from the diarrhea was that it messed up her zoomies and energy while she was playing. She normally gets zoomies several times throughout the day, and each time, we'll have a full play session to wear her out, but with this probiotic, she would get her zoomies, run around for a minute, and then feel depleted of energy, so then we'd stop, and then her energy would come back a few minutes later, but then she'd get tired a minute later again, so we'd have these constant starts and stops and could never really get through a normal play session.

Ok, so the box says it takes up to 6 weeks to work. I guess this must have been true for my cat because I didn’t see any effects until she’d been taking it for about a month. She is absolutely terrified of the cleaning lady. I’m talking, full blown panic attacks, her whole body would shake and she wouldn’t eat for days and sometimes she’d pee on my bed she was so anxious. Since starting this supplement, the cleaning lady has come twice and her anxiety is DRASTICALLY reduced. It’s not at a 0 yet, but she’s at least still eating and sleeping and not shaking and crying like she used to. She just stays away from the cleaning lady now and even naps, which she had no ability to do before I bought these supplements

My vet recommended giving this to my cat to address food hoarding behavior. She has PTSD and gets really anxious about food, as a consequence she's overweight. She would also initiate fights with the other female. Since she has been taking this probiotic, her behaviors have really mellowed out. In addition, her fur is so much softer and her allergies are less intense. She will be getting this the rest of her life.