Feliway or Pet Rescue

[Logoplanter]

Any views on which is best to help settle rescue cats into their new homes?

I remember using Feliway years ago for a toileting issue but it wasn't overly positive.

We use feliway. It seems to work as the cat gets more vocal at night when it’s running low🤣

Not tried pet rescue.

Honestly, I'm not convinced they work. I've has cause to use them twice. Once when our cat was over grooming herself and then, latterly, when we introduced our boy cat to her. On that occasion we used the feliway optimum.
She still hissed and swiped at him, more often than not directly in front of the plug in. What worked was just letting them sort out the hierarchy between themselves. Boy cat is very passive, despite being twice her size, so we knew she would be boss; he just had to realise that.
I don't think there is any harm in trying but, don't expect miracles. If you have an existing cat that detests other cats then I don't think any amount of feliway is going to help.

Pet remedy is much more effective and cheaper!

Thanks for the answers.

No existing cat as we lost our last girl a little while ago. Looking to take on two cats who are siblings who as far as I'm aware get on fine with each other but just hoping to help settle make the settling in period as easy as possible for them.

Dontkeep do you have one diffuser or two? I think we'd need two which will make it expensive, even for a fairly short period of time.

I have to say Toddler the price was what attracted me to Pet Remedy but then I've just been reading some stuff about the smell being unpleasant. Have you noticed it and do you use the diffuser or the spray?

I could smell the Pet Remedy, I thought it was smelly shoes in the shoe cupboard. The cat liked it though.
The vet recommended feliway even though I wasn't buying it from them, she said it works differently and that Pet Remedy is literally just a nice smell for the cat.

@Logoplanter we have one feliway plug in, it’s the deluxe one or whatever they call it. It’s on our upstairs landing as that is where our cat sleeps and it’s night she gets most agitated. We have a standard 3 bed semi so not a big house.

It’s meant to last a month but think it’s more 3.5 weeks so not the cheapest. Don’t think we will use it long term but we have only had our girl 2 months and we recently had ds1 back from university who keeps very different hours to us so it confuses her and she thinks we should also be awake at stupid o clock🙄🤣

Thanks again, really helpful. I'm leaning towards feliway I think as I'd hope we'd only need to use it to settle them in so maybe I shouldn't get so hung up on the cost. Not sure I could put up with the smell of smelly shoes for long!