Stressed-out cats and dogs are suffering compulsive disorders because of Britain's high break-up rate between couples, an animal charity has claimed.

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article...6&in_page_id=2

My little one loves to chew everything and me and the BF are prefectly happy

'Tis true though, I know two separate people who have had to rehome their cats after a break up this year

This is so true. The moment my partner and I argue, my cat goes behind the sofa as soon as voices are raised. This makes me stop. I class it like children, I knew how I used to feel when I'd hear my parents agrue - sick to the stomache. Thats exactly how our little pets feel when we do the same

I don't know about dogs, but my cat got stressed a few years ago because I moved all the furniture and took the carpet up to laminate the living room floor!

I had no idea cats were so easily stressed but he developed a urinary infection as a result and the vet said it was the upheaval and resultant stress that had made him susceptible.

Pets like consistancy and habit, there's no doubt about that. I am sure this is because in their way they are aware that they have little control over their environment and they have to trust us completely so that when we behave in unexpected ways this threatens their security and causes stress.

Dogs can self-harm?? With the same motives behind what drives a human to self-harm??? That bit made me go errrr.

Cats do seem more sensitive to change. When we got a new pup at the start of this year our cat ended up at the vets with a urinary infection within the first week.
I felt so guilty, especially as we stupidly thought he'd be pleased with the new addition since he'd been pining so badly for our old dog who'd died the previous year. He loves the dog now mind you, but it took him a few weeks to adjust.

Even new furniture stresses him out. We got a new suite delivered a few weeks ago and he wouldn't come into the living room for days afterwards.

I'll never forget when a friend/former lover of mine died suddenly and I spent 2 days on my bed just lying there in a state of deep distress and crying loudly...my cat look it very badly and stopped eating an refused to go out, just slept quitely, moving when I did to ensure constant contact. I'd cry - he'd purr quietly. Very touching considering the cat spent his life terrorising the neighbourhood and never coming home! Never forgot it.

The vet said that's common....he had a woman who's cat because extremely distraughted and pancky upon hearing his young student owner retching or throwing up as she often did with a hangover!!