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I think we may have a working hypothesis. Feline hyperesthesia syndrome. At least it is something to take to the vet. Now we just need to figure out how to keep her in her home until the medication can take effect.

The brother isn't the problem, it is the 80 year old mom that is coming to stay. I can say that I have tried giving the cat treats, she doesn't want them. She just sits there and growls at me.

They can't confine the cat. There are two bedrooms and the mom will be in one and the friend in the other. If they tried to lock the cat in the friend's bedroom I think all hell would break loose.

Hi Rubysmama, She may have been feral but was brought in at about 2 months old. She was very young. She is the only pet in the home, but there used to be two dogs who she did well with. However, the aggressive behaviour isn't new and isn't related to the current circumstances. When she was...

A friend of mine has a cat who is a little bit of a handful. She doesn't like strangers but doesn't run away and hide, she will sit there and growl and hiss and swat. My friend's mother was there a short time ago and when the mom got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night the cat...

I just don't think the pain meds were helping. If I could time them so he got a dose shortly before he was going to urinate it would probably help but I give it to him twice a day, so if he doesn't pee for 11 hours it has pretty much worn off and if I tried to give it to him while he was peeing...

Oh and vet is prescribing a general anti-inflammatory to see if that helps. He was on buponepherine but I am not sure that actually helped enough with the pain to justify him walking around completely stoned all the time.

I dunno, if you locked me in the bathroom I might poop on your floor too ;) I don't really believe he was punishing me, it was tongue in cheek. Although I am starting to wonder if they just hated my living room furniture. The vet called this morning to check up on him, she says it isn't...

We actually have the blankets on the couch to protect it from the dog hair. I asked hubby to pick up a shower curtain yesterday and he forgot. We are currently using boxes to block off the couch so no one can get up there. I locked kitty in my bathroom when I went out this evening, he was...

I did do a search, but the posts I can find are about peeing less on prozac, but not stopping like Rumble. Since he has blocked before, surgery may be our next option but the vet is really hoping it was just the Prozac because he was fine for two years on the prescription food.

The vet advised to stop the prozac immediately, he was on a low dose and wasn't on it long so it shouldn't have any great impact on him; because he is retaining urine the side effects of leaving him on the drug while we wean him off far outweigh the side effects of abruptly stopping the...

My cat, Rumble, got sick about two weeks ago. He had previously had a urinary blockage and although we still have him on the prescription diet all his behaviour seemed to indicate he was blocked again or retaining urine - so off to the vet we went only to find out he had an anal gland...

Back to his old trouble making self!

He finished the steroid last night so we are still in a bit of a wait and see pattern. We aren’t out of the woods until we are sure he doesn’t tank again once the steroids are out of his system. But . . . The vet is pretty sure it was just a cold that he couldn’t get ahead of. Assuming he...

We locked him in a room alone last night, he ate almost all the food that was in there with him. Now He is wandering around, like nothing at all happened. Still congested but not as bad. We are not out of the woods yet and now he is on steroids which could cause more problems, but he will be...

He was hiding under the couch when I got home from picking up my father’s ashes. So back to the vet we went today. She said they could hospitalize him and run a bunch of tests and still not be able to give us any answers. With his FIV and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy he is basically a ticking...

Still not improving. We went back to the vet on Tuesday for some sub cutaneous fluids and a decongestant. Still not eating. His blood work came back, his white blood cell count was ok. I am running out of options. I don't know how long this will last, I am not sure if I am just letting him...

My husband just came upstairs, said he thought Thomas was drooling but it is snot pouring out of his nose. So that is good. From my own colds I always feel better when the snot starts running instead of that stuffed up, it won’t move feeling.

He has had covenia before and had no reaction, I am not concerned about the medication. I think we are turning a corner! He was getting up and going to his food bowl when we fed the other cats last night but wouldn’t eat. At about 4 am he ate some tuna. He also doesn’t feel as warm and he has...

Given his FIV+ status and his heart problems, I know his time with me is limited. I would prefer he didn’t go just yet but it is much more important to me that he doesn’t suffer. He was a scruffy, skinny, scabby, scarred street cat who showed up on my porch one day and waited around until I...