Published in Scientific Works. Series C. Veterinary Medicine, Vol. LXX, Issue 2
Written by Simona NICOLAE, Iuliana CODREANU
The body's water requirement, under normal metabolic conditions, is direct proportional to the metabolic processes’ intensity, therefore, gestation can be correlated with the water requirement’s physiological variations, which will lead to a series of changes of the dipsic behaviour in domestic cats. For this ethological study, we analysed a group of 8 healthy female cats, monitoring their dipsic behaviour in the gestation period (between day 35 and 55), for 5 consecutive days. Based on the individual values obtained, the average group values of the studied parameters were calculated and statistically compared with the mean results obtained for a group of 10 clinically healthy individuals. Thus, in the studied group of pregnant felines, there was observed the increase of the mean number of waterings/24 hours and of the average duration/watering session, the two parameters were statistically significant (p<0.05) higher than the values obtained in the case of the control group. Also, it was recorded an increase of the dipsic behaviour manifestation duration/24 hours (p<0.01), as a result of the concomitant increase of the mean number of waterings and the average duration of a watering session
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