The causes of cats over grooming leads you to the solutions. When you know of a cause, you are in a position to rectify that.

Cats are fastidiously clean. They spend a great deal of time grooming themselves. Burying your nose into a friendly, healthy cat and the fur just smells gorgeous.

However, a cat out of natural harmony with themselves, is likely to spend more time grooming themselves. It offers them some comfort.

Unfortunately over grooming can lead to bald patches (alopecia) and raw skin.

Stress can be a trigger for a cat to groom themselves excessively. However, this is more likely to be when the immune system is badly compromised.

Stress can come from a noisy household, a lack of respect for the cat's space, feelings of insecurity, vet visits and other trips away from home, radiation from wi-fi, mobile/cell phones, nearby phone towers, toxins and the like.

What triggers a badly compromised immune system?

Probably, there are many factors involved, but the two main factors are diet and health care.

No one can be healthy when they consume a diet inappropriate to their species. For a cat, a carnivore, their natural diet is raw meat and bones. All fresh. Just as a wild cat eats.

Now look at the typical contents of commercial cat food - meat meal (if you're lucky), legumes, other plant based food, chemicals to flavour, colour, stimulate appetite, to preserve and to attempt to make up the shortfall in nutrients.

Feeding legumes and other plant foods to carnivores is inappropriate as they don't have the capacity to utilise them.

Cats are extremely sensitive to chemicals. Far more than most humans. Chemicals are toxins to the body. They are eliminated through the bowel and renal system, but also through the skin.

This makes the skin, and so the fur, feel and smell unhealthy. This leads to the cat trying desperately to get rid of this abnormality. An unending and fruitless task as long as the toxins keep coming in.

In addition, the elimination of toxins through the skin tends to attract fleas. For some reason, fleas thrive on a diet of toxins! They are not the cause. They are the effect. Look upon fleas as the canary in the coal mine.  something is brewing.  You are being warned.

Just as the food is full of toxins, so too are veterinary drugs.

Veterinary drugs never aim to heal problems as they are unaware of causes. Instead, the aim is to suppress the body's natural ability to show symptoms.

This is deeply stressful. Problems mount on problems. Overwhelm leads to behavioural issues in the cat's desperate attempt to release.

Flea treatment adds more toxins. It's a never ending cycle.

Having explored the two main causes of cats over grooming and other behavioural issues, lets look at how they point to the solutions.

Feeding a cat their natural diet of fresh and good quality raw meat and bones, without additives or supplements, is a major part of restoring their healthy immune system.

That's your job. No-one else can do that. We can help you and support you. But you have to do the work.

The holistic approach involves diet as well as a natural form of health care that supports the body's best attempts to restore harmony.

The natural health care of homeopathy offers one of the best ways to support your cat's health. It helps to eliminate toxins. It heals genetic inheritances that can lead to health issues. It restores, along with the diet, the natural functioning of a healthy immune system. 

Having examined two of the main causes of cats over grooming, you are now equipped to start a new journey of natural health care for both you and your cat. A generous gift from them.