My Zane is normally a very sweet loving cat, but I've been having problems with unprovoked biting.
He'll sometimes run up to me and bite me on the leg, then run away.
He'll be sitting in my lap, quite content, purring even, and then CHOMP. (Sometimes it is while I am petting him, and I can understand that this may be his way of saying he's had enough or that I'm not doing it right, but sometimes I'm not even touching him.)
He'll come up and rup against my ankles as though begging to be petted, and as soon as I touch him--CHOMP.
Last night I was sitting in my recliner with one arm hanging down, and he ran up and bit me on the wrist.
The vet has put him on Prozac, which seems to have helped a little, but it hasn't completely eliminated the problem.
Also, since going on the Prozac, he's started yowling for no apparent reason. He'll stand in front of his water bowl and paw at it, yowling. There's plenty of water in it, so it isn't as though he's telling me he needs water.
Also, since the new medication he's been 'Hoovering' his food. I give him his 2/3 cup kibble and he inhales it. This means that if I'm at all late getting home of an evening, he's starving. (He used to eat just a little at a time and spin it out so that he often had a little food left in his bowl at the next mealtime.)
When he's "himself" he's a sweet, loving cat, but he is having more and more 'turns.' The vet has examined him to a fare-thee-well, and can't find anything organically wrong. He's about 7 years old.
He'll sometimes run up to me and bite me on the leg, then run away.
He'll be sitting in my lap, quite content, purring even, and then CHOMP. (Sometimes it is while I am petting him, and I can understand that this may be his way of saying he's had enough or that I'm not doing it right, but sometimes I'm not even touching him.)
He'll come up and rup against my ankles as though begging to be petted, and as soon as I touch him--CHOMP.
Last night I was sitting in my recliner with one arm hanging down, and he ran up and bit me on the wrist.
The vet has put him on Prozac, which seems to have helped a little, but it hasn't completely eliminated the problem.
Also, since going on the Prozac, he's started yowling for no apparent reason. He'll stand in front of his water bowl and paw at it, yowling. There's plenty of water in it, so it isn't as though he's telling me he needs water.
Also, since the new medication he's been 'Hoovering' his food. I give him his 2/3 cup kibble and he inhales it. This means that if I'm at all late getting home of an evening, he's starving. (He used to eat just a little at a time and spin it out so that he often had a little food left in his bowl at the next mealtime.)
When he's "himself" he's a sweet, loving cat, but he is having more and more 'turns.' The vet has examined him to a fare-thee-well, and can't find anything organically wrong. He's about 7 years old.
