Claude Update:
The situation has gotten progressively more...I'm not sure there is a word for it. Strange and complicated would suffice.
Taking some of the advice from the forums here, we started anew in some of the areas of focus. Since I last wrote, the halo has come off, and Claude goes back to licking his legs at every opportunity. They have now reverted back to looking as bad as they did pre-halo enforcement.
Now the weird part. Claude has been coming downstairs for the evening (he normally sleeps up in our bedroom) and jumping on my couch to lay at my feet....its quite endearing. We turn the volume down on the TV, I only move when needed (a cheap excuse to make my wife be the remote MC!), and we generally try to make the atmosphere as calming as possible.
This evening after my wife had already headed to bed, I was laying on the couch with a blanket at my feet and Claude was resting their contentedly. Suddenly, an overpowering smell of ammonia overtook me. Immediately, I looked down at Claude and he was still laying down, but his head was up and he was sniffing the blanket around him.
Being that he wasn't in "pee" mode, I immediately thought that one of our litter trained chins had decided to see how far he could shoot across the room, since their smell tends to have that highly concentrated ammonia smell. I went in their room, and nothing.
I came back, did the dog nose thing around Claude, and even though only one of my sniffers is currently working, I didn't smell it around Claude. I was seriously thinking he may have aimed and fired before I noticed, then assumed the position like nothing had happened.
I went back to sitting on the couch, thinking I may be having a stroke and if so I'd better be sitting down when it happened again.
Curiosity got the best of me, and I decided to grab Claude and smell him. Sure enough, he REEKED. The area underneath him also completely smelled just like he had dosed it with his own special blend. Whatever occurred happened while Claude was pretty much asleep, and "discipline" absolutely cannot be considered a factor.
The weird part about this is that he was in the curled up position, more than likely completely asleep, and everything was COMPLETELY DRY. However he "released" whatever he released, it was done in a fashion that I cannot explain.
This new wrinkle has me completely baffled. Even if he marks, isn't he supposed to get into that position? He wasn't threatened, he wasn't upset, he wasn't in pyscho mode...he was just....asleep.
Bedwetting?
Could this be more confusing?
The situation has gotten progressively more...I'm not sure there is a word for it. Strange and complicated would suffice.
Taking some of the advice from the forums here, we started anew in some of the areas of focus. Since I last wrote, the halo has come off, and Claude goes back to licking his legs at every opportunity. They have now reverted back to looking as bad as they did pre-halo enforcement.
Now the weird part. Claude has been coming downstairs for the evening (he normally sleeps up in our bedroom) and jumping on my couch to lay at my feet....its quite endearing. We turn the volume down on the TV, I only move when needed (a cheap excuse to make my wife be the remote MC!), and we generally try to make the atmosphere as calming as possible.
This evening after my wife had already headed to bed, I was laying on the couch with a blanket at my feet and Claude was resting their contentedly. Suddenly, an overpowering smell of ammonia overtook me. Immediately, I looked down at Claude and he was still laying down, but his head was up and he was sniffing the blanket around him.
Being that he wasn't in "pee" mode, I immediately thought that one of our litter trained chins had decided to see how far he could shoot across the room, since their smell tends to have that highly concentrated ammonia smell. I went in their room, and nothing.
I came back, did the dog nose thing around Claude, and even though only one of my sniffers is currently working, I didn't smell it around Claude. I was seriously thinking he may have aimed and fired before I noticed, then assumed the position like nothing had happened.
I went back to sitting on the couch, thinking I may be having a stroke and if so I'd better be sitting down when it happened again.
Curiosity got the best of me, and I decided to grab Claude and smell him. Sure enough, he REEKED. The area underneath him also completely smelled just like he had dosed it with his own special blend. Whatever occurred happened while Claude was pretty much asleep, and "discipline" absolutely cannot be considered a factor.
The weird part about this is that he was in the curled up position, more than likely completely asleep, and everything was COMPLETELY DRY. However he "released" whatever he released, it was done in a fashion that I cannot explain.
This new wrinkle has me completely baffled. Even if he marks, isn't he supposed to get into that position? He wasn't threatened, he wasn't upset, he wasn't in pyscho mode...he was just....asleep.
Bedwetting?
Could this be more confusing?
I would definately talk to your vet and do some research into neuropathy and other nerve/muscular disorders.
