The Truth About Cats and Essential Oils

The use of essential oils with cats is undoubtedly the most controversial topic in animal aromatherapy. If you Google cats and essential oils, you’ll probably find comments that essential oils are toxic to cats. And you might read that cats cannot metabolize essential oils and that essential oils will kill your cat.  The truth is… Cats have a unique metabolic process that CAN breakdown essential oils, but is MUCH SLOWER than dogs, other animals or humans. The problem is that there are very few studies examining a cat’s drug metabolism. It’s uncertain how slowly a cat is able to metabolize […]