Try some serious hissing now when he misbehaves. He should get that in no uncertain terms!
It works for me! I have three male kittens, and when I hiss they know I mean business!
@siamiam2 on the 15th of August, we celebrate the mother of Christ who was ascented to the Heavens (in Orthodox Chrisitan Belief, Virgin Mary never "died".. She was just "ascented"). So, it's a big holiday for the country and it is celebrated everywhere. According to tradition we treat everyone as our own family with feasts, music etc... It is the best day for a tourist to be in Greece, cause they get to eat, drink, sing, dance and generally have fun with Greeks opening their houses and offering their goods to neighboors, strangers, travellers etc.. There are also feasts taking place in central squares of each region, so that more people can come and become one with everybody..I still don't know what holiday it was but its creepy scary that markets would be closed til Mon. Yikes![emoji]128552[/emoji] Annabel wants her turkey back but they demand I do the work for them. That goes for my wheat t9o and I'm in agony without it. Bar code? As I said...do I work there? They have an order book. It's written in there what it is I'm sure. I keep hoping they'll surprise me for her and just stock it but they don't. No salt rice cakes isn't as urgent as the puffed wheat for me and Special Kitty turkey for her. She eats 3 different kinds of food? That one would be in the middle. Also won't stock coypuntry dinner to alternate with mixed grill for more variation. She needs it for variation like I need as much variation as possible. They have no heart no soul nothing of humanity. How's your mother feeling? Glad to see you're getting the situation with Grizzly under control.
@NewYork1303 Grizzly hissing back at me won't be the strangest thing! LOL With the behaviour he's demonstrating, I won't be surprised.. But it won't hurt to try, cause it used to work when he was little.. We'll see..
I hope the hissing works better on grizzly then it does on my little teenage kitten. If I hiss at her about something she is doing, she will hiss right back at me. A lot of people say the hissing works though.
I really really hope it works for you! You need something to keep the biting down.
I am glad your time gave you a little leeway to work on giving pills without any stress. Too often we are not given that option and meds have to be started quickly. When I have had to be "forceful" the cat got over any issues pretty quickly.
When you hiss, you need to raise your head and sound serious. Look him in the eyes, he has to believe you.
It sounds like things are moving in the right direction!
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Such good updates about him taking his pill and not being too aggressive. I do suggest if he gets that halloween type cat body/face with arched back, ears flattened out and eyes very large, making meow,meow meow noises do not hiss at him, that is pretty much an aggressive kitty body language that the cat will attack,and is calling like a duel. it helps to leave them alone and back away slowly if that happens.
I am very glad your mother is feeling well enough to sit with Grizzly again and to be able to go back to work. I do hope that the behaviorist can help you both. There is one thing though, that I thought rather strange, cats do not have alpha leaders, cats are not really pack animals like dogs, with cats there is a system ferals have in place but usually the males go their separate ways, and start their own colonies or just roam.
Grizzly maybe biting your arms as you sleep because he sees them as a toy, it's often best to use string toys than hands to play with cats.Here's a little something I hope you like.. :nod:
It was recorded back in May - I uploaded it yesterday..
Why are you poking him?He doesn't look happy about it. He doesn't like it or he wouldn't keep kicking. I know if I tried it with mine, I would be bitten. Agreed with KSKatt. It may be good if you could get him toys to play with instead of fingers, I learned the hard way with one of mine when he was a kitten. A bottle kitten, he never really learned to quit attacking ankles and hands. I had made him that way, so I kept him. I still think of him.Grizzly maybe biting your arms as you sleep because he sees them as a toy, it's often best to use string toys than hands to play with cats.
I wondered about Prozac too for two reasons.Grizzly sounds like he's easily overstimulated to the point of major and sudden mood changes. The Xanax doesn't seem to be doing much long term, because it wears off so quickly, but I have no experience with it.
Perhaps the vet can give you a suspension (powder-liquid mix?) form of Prozac which will build up slowly and stabilize him? A liquid may be easy enough to mix with food or even just syringe into his cheek pouch while he's relaxed.
I can tell if I forget my Fluoxetine for a couple days just by the way I view the world. I feel like my head is filled with fog or I'm exceptionally paranoid or aggressive when I forget it. It's a huge difference.
Just something to think about if it comes to it.
Well, scrap the Valium idea then. [emoji]128512[/emoji]While I agree that ultimately Grizzly may well benefit from some kind of long term anti anxiety medication, I'm certainly not making judgements as to which one. The drugs in question all work subtly differently, and the behaviourist and vet are best placed to make a judgement as to which to use.
Speaking as someone who takes Valium, it is most definitely NOT tasteless (don't believe it unless you've tasted it yourself ). The different benzodiazepines vary slightly in function. In Grizzly's case, I suspect Xanax was chosen because it stays in the bloodstream for around 11hrs, as opposed to Valium's 20hrs (even though they both have therapeutic effects for around 4-6 hrs). Not knowing how Grizzly would react to the drug, it makes perfect sense to have prescribed the one with the shortest half life.