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I've got this great little cat, named Snug. He's five years old, and I've been with him through think and thin, but lately, I've been having some trouble with the little guy. If I can't get it sorted out fast, something awful could happen.
About eight months back, we had given him some Hartz flea treatment that we assumed was safe. It ended up poisening him, however, and it took three or four months to get him back to the old Snug I know and love. However, he was not fully resotred. The insident left him with some odd nuro problems. He began to sleep face-first in my shoes (he'd never done that before) and his walking was very stiff. So sitff, that he hardly bent his knees in the back legs at all. He gained a ton of weight, and whenever startled or afarid, he'd go blind for an hour or so, or at least untill he calmed down, and he was a tad bit moody than he had ever been.
Now, before all of this, my cat would go outside and lounge around, and play with the neighbors, and keep the feild mice out. But th few months after, we moved to a diffrent place, out into the country with alot of wild and angry cats. For fear that he may be attacked, and go blind, or lost and hit by a car I kept him inside, to have free range of the house. He would sun in all the wondows, and sleep the day away. He got out only a few times, but when I cought him, he would grumble a little, but be fine afterwords.
Today, however, he had gotten out, and hidden under our rap-around pourch. I crawled underneath to get him, and he swatted at me. Now, my cat is not a violent thing. Prior to the incident, he had never growled or swatted at me, ever. But when I was under the porch, he swatted and growled. I didn't take it to serouisly, so insted of backing off, I reached for him. While I did that, he growled, swatted and bit me. I pulled my arm back, startled and shocked, and he stood up, arched his back, spit and hissed, and ran into the bushes. As I crawled to get him, h hid under some steps. I took a bit of wood (about five inches long) and poked at him to chase him out so I could grab him to bring him inside. When I did that, however, he full on attacked the piece of wood. Growling, biting, aggressivly hissing and swatting. Finally, we got him in a pillowcase, where he still struggled and hissed, untill we got him in my room. As I walked in there only a few seconds after in escape, he was calm, cool, and his sweet old self again.
Now, because he keeps darting for the door to get out, and he only answers to me, my parents have encouraged me to keep him in my room. However, I'm not so sure if that is the best idea. I feel that it may be too crule to keep him in a small space all day, without very much contact from anybody but myself, but so far it seems to be the only thing we can do at the moment. And it may become an increasing problem when I go off to college, because my firt year will be spent on campus. My mother suggested, because of the attack and the nuro issues, that I conister putting him down. I really, really don't want to do that, because I love my cat so much. We do pretty much everything together and things ust won't be the same without him.
Can anybody tell me what I should do? Is there another alternative, or do I really have to put my beloved Sung down? I really need some answers, and fast.
About eight months back, we had given him some Hartz flea treatment that we assumed was safe. It ended up poisening him, however, and it took three or four months to get him back to the old Snug I know and love. However, he was not fully resotred. The insident left him with some odd nuro problems. He began to sleep face-first in my shoes (he'd never done that before) and his walking was very stiff. So sitff, that he hardly bent his knees in the back legs at all. He gained a ton of weight, and whenever startled or afarid, he'd go blind for an hour or so, or at least untill he calmed down, and he was a tad bit moody than he had ever been.
Now, before all of this, my cat would go outside and lounge around, and play with the neighbors, and keep the feild mice out. But th few months after, we moved to a diffrent place, out into the country with alot of wild and angry cats. For fear that he may be attacked, and go blind, or lost and hit by a car I kept him inside, to have free range of the house. He would sun in all the wondows, and sleep the day away. He got out only a few times, but when I cought him, he would grumble a little, but be fine afterwords.
Today, however, he had gotten out, and hidden under our rap-around pourch. I crawled underneath to get him, and he swatted at me. Now, my cat is not a violent thing. Prior to the incident, he had never growled or swatted at me, ever. But when I was under the porch, he swatted and growled. I didn't take it to serouisly, so insted of backing off, I reached for him. While I did that, he growled, swatted and bit me. I pulled my arm back, startled and shocked, and he stood up, arched his back, spit and hissed, and ran into the bushes. As I crawled to get him, h hid under some steps. I took a bit of wood (about five inches long) and poked at him to chase him out so I could grab him to bring him inside. When I did that, however, he full on attacked the piece of wood. Growling, biting, aggressivly hissing and swatting. Finally, we got him in a pillowcase, where he still struggled and hissed, untill we got him in my room. As I walked in there only a few seconds after in escape, he was calm, cool, and his sweet old self again.
Now, because he keeps darting for the door to get out, and he only answers to me, my parents have encouraged me to keep him in my room. However, I'm not so sure if that is the best idea. I feel that it may be too crule to keep him in a small space all day, without very much contact from anybody but myself, but so far it seems to be the only thing we can do at the moment. And it may become an increasing problem when I go off to college, because my firt year will be spent on campus. My mother suggested, because of the attack and the nuro issues, that I conister putting him down. I really, really don't want to do that, because I love my cat so much. We do pretty much everything together and things ust won't be the same without him.
Can anybody tell me what I should do? Is there another alternative, or do I really have to put my beloved Sung down? I really need some answers, and fast.
