Pet owners worldwide are reporting some of their pets are acting weird while under quarantine. They’re getting clingy, running on countertops and shooting evil stares at humans. It’s not known if the quarantine is causing pet anxieties, but displacement behaviors, the tics pets develop to cope with new stressors, may be the result.
Source: Vox, April 24, 2020. Link. In dogs and cats, these may present as mounting, pacing, vocalizing, scratching, or patterned behaviors like spinning,” says M. Leanne Lilly, professor of veterinary behavioral medicine at Ohio State University. “Just like we may play with our hair, pace in a circle, or chew our fingernails.”
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