Taking Turbo the the vet..

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..this will be the first time he has been seen at an actual vet office.  He will be 2 in December.

I got Turbo when he was a little over two months old.  Shortly after my husband had passed away.  While figuring everything out and getting myself taken care of, Turbo was looked after by a friend of mine.  She got him his shots at PetCo.  They expire on the 31st of this month.  Turbo is not -yet- neutered.

I recently was able to take Turbo back after getting settling and taking care of things.  I'm taking him to the vet where I have also taken some of my exotic pets in a couple hours.  They are going to renew his shots and I am going to talk to them about some problems I've been having with him.  We are also scheduling an appointment to get him neutered which I am sure is a reason for a lot of these issues.

Turbo has "accidents".  He also can be very randomly aggressive and will randomly run after you and attack you, or come up to you sniff you then grab onto to you and bite you hard.  He cries very loudly when you leave the room or close him out of the room you're in while scratching the door.  Before we go to bed he will meow very loudly for long periods of time, and come in an attack us in bed as well.  I think he has some form of separation anxiety due to his crying when we lock him out of our rooms or if we are upstairs and he hears our voices he wails as  well if we don't come down stairs by him. (We live in an upper/lower)

Will our new vet want to put Turbo on medications or will neutering help his separation and aggression issues?  Does anyone have an advice/suggestions?
 

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A lot of those problems are related to being unneutered. But I'm not sure about the separation issue. Neutering may not help with that. Some cats are just needy. But definitely have him neutered, then it takes a month or 2 for the hormones to be out of his system entirely. After that, if you haven't seen any improvement, talk to the vet about what else can be tried. But the peeing and aggression should definitely improve. Living with an intact tomcat isn't very pleasant!
 
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Thank you for your response!  He would have been neutered sooner, the circumstances were just crazy but he has his appointment set. 
 

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I agree that most of that is likely due to being unfixed, I'm glad you have an appointment soon and hopefully he'll settle down a bit! 

I've not had a cat experience anxiety (although Arc will be very unhappy when I suddenly go back to school next year seeing as I'm home almost all the time now) but my rainbow dog did. She was never prescribed anything, but we started using pheromone diffusers and that calmed her down somewhat. Luckily she never needed to be left for too long. You could try Feliway (or similar calming products, although I swear by Feliway) to see if that helps? If it persists after neutering vets will sometimes prescribe a short course of anxiety meds (a week or two) to see if that has any impact. 
 
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