From Wikipedia:

According to the Christian writer Clement of Alexandria, Dionysus was guided in his journey by Prosymnus or Polymnus, who requested, as his reward, to be Dionysus’ lover. Prosymnus died before Dionysus could honor his pledge, so to satisfy Prosymnus’ shade, Dionysus fashioned a phallus from a fig branch and penetrated himself with it at Prosymnus’ tomb. This story survives in full only in Christian sources, whose aim was to discredit pagan mythology, but it appears to have also served to explain the origin of secret objects used by the Dionysian Mysteries.

We do only wet food. Our last cat needed it to keep up hydration, and now we do the same with our new cats. Def more expensive, and not sure it’s worth it for healthy cats that drink enough.

It’s an online survey of cat owners, seems funded by that company that sells air fresheners for cats.

They found no connection to scratching and their product, but did find that cats in houses with kids scratch more.

So sell your kids and enjoy that scratch-free sofa.

Metapod occurs among adult women between pupation and ecdysis.

Emphysema amblypygi

Sounds like you need to go to a vet.

How do you know anxiety caused the hives? Couldn’t the hives have caused the anxiety? Or couldn’t they be separate?

Take it to a vet, if you haven’t already.