Early signals
- Ears rotating sideways
- Tail flicking
- Crouched body
- Reduced play
Escalating signals
- Hiding more often
- Puffed tail
- Dilated pupils
- Growling or hissing
Health overlap
- Not eating
- Litter box changes
- Overgrooming
- Sudden aggression
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Quick signal check flow
Remove the trigger
Give your cat a safe route away from visitors, noise, children, or other animals.
Track duration
Stress that resolves quickly is different from hiding or appetite changes that continue.
Separate behavior from illness
When stress signs appear with eating, bathroom, or pain changes, treat it as a vet question.
Risk levels
Watch
Brief tension around a clear trigger, followed by normal behavior.
Monitor closely
Repeated hiding, reduced play, or recurring stress in the same situation.
Call a professional
Not eating, litter box changes, pain signs, severe hiding, or sudden aggression.
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PetSignalAI reviews the actual photo or short video, identifies visible cues, and summarizes whether the situation looks like relax, monitor, or call-a-professional territory.
PetSignalAI is an educational screening tool, not a veterinary diagnosis. If your pet shows sudden behavior change, pain signs, breathing trouble, collapse, repeated vomiting, urinary straining, or bite risk, contact a licensed veterinarian or certified behavior professional.