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Hi Kerry, just to give you a history.
We lost our two year old calico Jasmine almost 6 weeks ago now. She and my 8 year old Charlie didn't have the best relationship, she was the dominant one and they fought a bit, but the did accept they had to share a house for 2 years. Charlie is generally a timid cat, he had a previous owner already when we adopted him at 16 weeks, we don't know what caused his timidness.
We've built an enclosure and Charlie is now an indoor cat. He had always had a flea or two on him but they really got to him after Jazzy died, and for the first month he developed psychogenic alopecia from the stress of not having freedom anymore as well (which has been treated with Advantage & anti-biotics). The vet told us that Jasmine was his protector, even though they fought, whenever she was around he knew that he was safe from the neighbours cats. We have only been in this house a year and have alot of trouble with the ferals, as i call them.
We also found out that the reason he went so crazy, was that he didn't know how to mourn her, he was lost and didn't know what to do. He was running up and down the hall alot and making the brrrr noises like Jazzy used to. Now for about 6 days he has been on Clomicalm and he looked really depressed like he was finally dealing with her death, now that he wasn't running about the house and being crazy, not evened out. He is a little better now, we have started to reduce his dose, and he seems a little more himself.
What i wanted to know was have you seen this behaviour before, and are there any recomendations to any special attention (other than the loving and cuddles from 3 people he gets) he should be getting or anything like that?
Thankyou
Emma.
We lost our two year old calico Jasmine almost 6 weeks ago now. She and my 8 year old Charlie didn't have the best relationship, she was the dominant one and they fought a bit, but the did accept they had to share a house for 2 years. Charlie is generally a timid cat, he had a previous owner already when we adopted him at 16 weeks, we don't know what caused his timidness.
We've built an enclosure and Charlie is now an indoor cat. He had always had a flea or two on him but they really got to him after Jazzy died, and for the first month he developed psychogenic alopecia from the stress of not having freedom anymore as well (which has been treated with Advantage & anti-biotics). The vet told us that Jasmine was his protector, even though they fought, whenever she was around he knew that he was safe from the neighbours cats. We have only been in this house a year and have alot of trouble with the ferals, as i call them.
We also found out that the reason he went so crazy, was that he didn't know how to mourn her, he was lost and didn't know what to do. He was running up and down the hall alot and making the brrrr noises like Jazzy used to. Now for about 6 days he has been on Clomicalm and he looked really depressed like he was finally dealing with her death, now that he wasn't running about the house and being crazy, not evened out. He is a little better now, we have started to reduce his dose, and he seems a little more himself.
What i wanted to know was have you seen this behaviour before, and are there any recomendations to any special attention (other than the loving and cuddles from 3 people he gets) he should be getting or anything like that?
Thankyou
Emma.
