> > hunkering down in small, enclosed spaces is a kind of “swaddling” behavior left over from cuddling up with their moms and littermates when they were kittens.
This isn't cat specific. The concept of boundaries is very important in healing trauma, and just in general is a key concept in human being's emotional development.
It’s a fine line though. Modify the environment and you get the opposite effect. I’m an MR tech and we sedate about 1 in 20 to get them into the scanner.
Obviously an MRI scanner isn’t anything close to a snuggle with mum, but it is a relatively enclosed space.
It’s a fine line though. Modify the environment and you get the opposite effect. I’m an MR tech and we sedate about 1 in 20 to get them into the scanner.
Obviously an MRI scanner isn’t anything close to a snuggle with mum, but it is a relatively enclosed space.