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[ifcatsruledtheworld]

I don't know is this is the right place to ask this but thought it best to keep it out of the more serious parts of the forum.

Has anyone noticed a change in their cats behavior when they take hrt? I know we all have to be careful that we don't pass the hormones on to our pets via our skin, but I'm taking my progesterone orally.

I have to take Utrogestan Progesterone 2 weeks a month and during that time my female cat won't leave me alone. She can't get close enough. She's desperate to snuggle me in bed. She's not unfriendly when I'm not taking it but my partner and I have both noticed a marked difference while I'm taking progesterone.

I've seen people talking about this on pregnancy sites but I wondered if any hrt ladies here had noticed cats, dogs etc behaving differently around hrt?

[CLKD]

Dogs are known to detect cancers etc., warn of epileptic fits - so if your skin is emitting an unusual hormonal smell ............

Is she neutered?

[ifcatsruledtheworld]

She is neutered. It doesn't seem to have the same effect on my male cat.

[CLKD]

? ask your Vet. ?

[Iris67]

A cat's smelling abilities are about 14x ours. Dogs have 300 million receptors and we have about 5....

[KaraShannon]

Nawwwww, that's so cute.  Would love to know the reason, must be something about progesterone bringing on uterine contractions as if we were going to give birth.  So maybe we have more oxytocin (the love hormone) circulating too and the cat feels more like you're her mum or something, or it triggers her to release more oxytocin.

[CLKD]

Dangerous for pets.