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My cat Beazel is an indoor cat, along with our two other cats Lennon and Momo. Yesterday Beazel escaped for the first time, he slipped out the door as my daughter was heading for the school bus and as he is normally sleeping off a night of play at that hour, I didn't notice he was gone. He remained outside for a couple hours until I heard an awful screaming coming from outside, I opened the door and he was standing on his back legs screaming like the devil himself was after him. I quickly picked him up and brought him inside, where he bit me repeatedly and continued to scream. I was terrified that he was injured and rushed him straight to the vet, he was ok thank god, and since the vet needed to sedate him to take x-rays and shave some fur to check for punctures, we ended up getting him neutered at the same time, which was possibly a bad idea.
He came home later that night, and while he seems grateful to be home again, he is acting very different which makes me worry that he is traumatized. He normally spends his time sitting on the back of my chair while I am at my pc in my second story bedroom, he now will not leave the first floor. He normally loves to be held but now does not want to be picked up. He is usually just kinda my cat, and shuns the other family members but now he stays downstairs and goes in circles rubbing up against whoever is present downstairs and getting pets. He is best friends with our other male cat Lennon, and he still seems to crave Lennon's affection, but Lennon acts like he does not know who he is, thankfully Lennon is not aggressive so he tolerates this strange Beazel, but does no more. In short, he is acting very different, the evening he came home, I chalked it up to having a scary day and being on pain killers from his neuter, but today saw no change. He is jumping at every little sound, something he never did before, and if I carry him upstairs, he bolts back down to the first floor as soon as I set him down.
I am worried, that whatever happened outdoors, combined with a trip to the vet, with a very panicked me and then surgery and a drastic change in hormones has traumatized him. I love him very much, he is quite literally my baby, and I just want to help him in any way possible. I have been combing the web searching for advice but I keep finding conflicting information. Some sites say to leave him alone and stick to our routine, others say that I should engage him in play, and sit downstairs with him, more say that I should contact the vet if there is no change in a week or so to see if he would benefit from something like Prozac.
As a side note, he was completely up to date on all vaccinations, and the vet could find no injuries, she is guessing that he was chased by another cat who bit his tail, it didn't break the skin. It seems to me like one of his hips is sore, but if it is, it is nothing more than a bruise (she x-rayed him top to bottom). He is eating a drinking normally, using the litter box normally. He does feel tense to me, my husband asked me if he "felt more solid?" he does, he is tense. He normally goes about with is tail up, now it is down. He really bit me good, I went to the doctor today who gave me an antibiotic shot and some more oral ones, should have gone yesterday but I was too worried about him to think of me. I don't think he even recognized me when I brought him in and he bit me, he is not aggressive and has not bitten since. Any advice would be hugely appreciated, Thank you in advance.
He came home later that night, and while he seems grateful to be home again, he is acting very different which makes me worry that he is traumatized. He normally spends his time sitting on the back of my chair while I am at my pc in my second story bedroom, he now will not leave the first floor. He normally loves to be held but now does not want to be picked up. He is usually just kinda my cat, and shuns the other family members but now he stays downstairs and goes in circles rubbing up against whoever is present downstairs and getting pets. He is best friends with our other male cat Lennon, and he still seems to crave Lennon's affection, but Lennon acts like he does not know who he is, thankfully Lennon is not aggressive so he tolerates this strange Beazel, but does no more. In short, he is acting very different, the evening he came home, I chalked it up to having a scary day and being on pain killers from his neuter, but today saw no change. He is jumping at every little sound, something he never did before, and if I carry him upstairs, he bolts back down to the first floor as soon as I set him down.
I am worried, that whatever happened outdoors, combined with a trip to the vet, with a very panicked me and then surgery and a drastic change in hormones has traumatized him. I love him very much, he is quite literally my baby, and I just want to help him in any way possible. I have been combing the web searching for advice but I keep finding conflicting information. Some sites say to leave him alone and stick to our routine, others say that I should engage him in play, and sit downstairs with him, more say that I should contact the vet if there is no change in a week or so to see if he would benefit from something like Prozac.
As a side note, he was completely up to date on all vaccinations, and the vet could find no injuries, she is guessing that he was chased by another cat who bit his tail, it didn't break the skin. It seems to me like one of his hips is sore, but if it is, it is nothing more than a bruise (she x-rayed him top to bottom). He is eating a drinking normally, using the litter box normally. He does feel tense to me, my husband asked me if he "felt more solid?" he does, he is tense. He normally goes about with is tail up, now it is down. He really bit me good, I went to the doctor today who gave me an antibiotic shot and some more oral ones, should have gone yesterday but I was too worried about him to think of me. I don't think he even recognized me when I brought him in and he bit me, he is not aggressive and has not bitten since. Any advice would be hugely appreciated, Thank you in advance.
