Dietary Strategies for Relieving Stress in Pet Dogs and Cats

• Main Authors: Zhicong Fan (Author), Zhaowei Bian (Author), Hongcan Huang (Author), Tingting Liu (Author), Ruiti Ren (Author), Xiaomin Chen (Author), Xiaohe Zhang (Author), Yingjia Wang (Author), Baichuan Deng (Author), Lingna Zhang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A variety of physical, emotional, and mental factors can induce a stress response in pet dogs and cats. During this process, hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) and sympathetic-adrenal medulla (SAM) axes are activated to produce a series of adaptive short-term reactions to the aversive situations....