It's been a while since I've used the feliway plug in, not having needed it really.
The backround:
This week however I am doing a job that requires me having a developmentally disabled young woman staying with me all week. The cats already know her, and she has stayed overnight before, but not for days and days.
Because of my special needs cats, we cannot sleep at her house. So we get up at 5:45 a.m., I give Tolly his liver pill, then we go to her house so I can get her ready for work (she goes to sheltered workshop) after I take her, I come home and get ready for my own work, and feed the cats, etc etc. And in the evening, when they are used to it being just me and them, of course she is here too, which changes our routine and I have less time and energy to spend on them.
M has a severe seizure disorder that causes me to lie awake all night long listening for seizures. After three nights of this, not to mention the odd schedule we must keep, I had become a walking Zombie, but not so out of it I didn't notice the cats were beginning to look a little rough around the edges too. And then, Wednesday night she finally had a series of seizures (she has them only when sleeping). They were quite violent and the cats were very stressed.
It wasn't until the following morning, when I came back home after bringing M to work, I sat on the floor with them and as they swarmed around me I kind of wept over them, (having not slept in about 80 hours my emotions weren't very controllable) that it occurred to me that I should have been using the feliway plug in all week!
So I plugged it in Thursday morning, and by Friday afternoon they were well on their way to looking and acting back to normal and not as stressed. In fact when we came home last night I could see that all three of them had had thorough baths (they had been looking a little seedy) so of course I dosed them all with hairball remedy, much to their annoyance.
This morning the feliway has been in place for 48 hours and they are acting quite normal, in spite of another episode of seizures in the middle of the night.
I love Feliway plug in diffusers!!!
The backround:
This week however I am doing a job that requires me having a developmentally disabled young woman staying with me all week. The cats already know her, and she has stayed overnight before, but not for days and days.
Because of my special needs cats, we cannot sleep at her house. So we get up at 5:45 a.m., I give Tolly his liver pill, then we go to her house so I can get her ready for work (she goes to sheltered workshop) after I take her, I come home and get ready for my own work, and feed the cats, etc etc. And in the evening, when they are used to it being just me and them, of course she is here too, which changes our routine and I have less time and energy to spend on them.
M has a severe seizure disorder that causes me to lie awake all night long listening for seizures. After three nights of this, not to mention the odd schedule we must keep, I had become a walking Zombie, but not so out of it I didn't notice the cats were beginning to look a little rough around the edges too. And then, Wednesday night she finally had a series of seizures (she has them only when sleeping). They were quite violent and the cats were very stressed.
It wasn't until the following morning, when I came back home after bringing M to work, I sat on the floor with them and as they swarmed around me I kind of wept over them, (having not slept in about 80 hours my emotions weren't very controllable) that it occurred to me that I should have been using the feliway plug in all week!
So I plugged it in Thursday morning, and by Friday afternoon they were well on their way to looking and acting back to normal and not as stressed. In fact when we came home last night I could see that all three of them had had thorough baths (they had been looking a little seedy) so of course I dosed them all with hairball remedy, much to their annoyance.
This morning the feliway has been in place for 48 hours and they are acting quite normal, in spite of another episode of seizures in the middle of the night.
I love Feliway plug in diffusers!!!
I can't even order them online as I don't have a credit card. I have discussed the possiblity of the local pet supply stores getting them in though and am keeping my fingers crossed.
