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I have a cat with CHF. He has been doing great on his medication. I was out of town for 24 hrs. and a friend fed and medicated him. He eats his meds with his food. He was fine when I returned home. He went outside after dinner for about 2 hrs. When he returned he was acting very strange. He acted scared, and had a hard time jumping on my lap. He did not sleep with me last night as he always does. He slept on the floor near the fireplace. He did not wake me up this morning like he always does. I was awakened by a loud noise on the back porch, and it was a huge, stray tom cat. He was staring in the back door and my cat was cowering in the middle of the floor. When I went to him he hissed at me and ran and hid. He has never hissed at me. After hiding all day and not eating, he came out when I returned from the store. He wanted to go out, he always goes out to pee. It was snowing, but he made his way through the snow to underneath the shed where he goes in the winter to relieve himself because it's dry under there. He would not come back out. He made his way to the back door several hours later, cowering down like he was still afraid. I opened the door and he ran under the back deck. He has been under there all night, and the windchill is supposed to be below zero. I've called until I'm hoarse, he will not come out. I put his old cat house with a blanket in it on the back porch, but I don't think he'll come out to use it. I don't know if he was attacked by the stray cat (I think he has been is a fight or two with him in the past) and is just terrified, or if it is just coincidence and he became very suddenly ill and has crawled under there to die? I'm beside myself. He hasn't eaten, drank or had his meds all day today and it's freezing out! He was a feral cat for the first couple of years of his life, but he now spends more time indoors. I am out of options for getting him in. I also don't know what I'll do if he has gone to die under there. I can't imagine he would have gone downhill in just a matter of hours! This is so awful, does anyone have any suggestions? He is not interested at food at this point, so that is not an option. Please help!
I have a cat with CHF. He has been doing great on his medication. I was out of town for 24 hrs. and a friend fed and medicated him. He eats his meds with his food. He was fine when I returned home. He went outside after dinner for about 2 hrs. When he returned he was acting very strange. He acted scared, and had a hard time jumping on my lap. He did not sleep with me last night as he always does. He slept on the floor near the fireplace. He did not wake me up this morning like he always does. I was awakened by a loud noise on the back porch, and it was a huge, stray tom cat. He was staring in the back door and my cat was cowering in the middle of the floor. When I went to him he hissed at me and ran and hid. He has never hissed at me. After hiding all day and not eating, he came out when I returned from the store. He wanted to go out, he always goes out to pee. It was snowing, but he made his way through the snow to underneath the shed where he goes in the winter to relieve himself because it's dry under there. He would not come back out. He made his way to the back door several hours later, cowering down like he was still afraid. I opened the door and he ran under the back deck. He has been under there all night, and the windchill is supposed to be below zero. I've called until I'm hoarse, he will not come out. I put his old cat house with a blanket in it on the back porch, but I don't think he'll come out to use it. I don't know if he was attacked by the stray cat (I think he has been is a fight or two with him in the past) and is just terrified, or if it is just coincidence and he became very suddenly ill and has crawled under there to die? I'm beside myself. He hasn't eaten, drank or had his meds all day today and it's freezing out! He was a feral cat for the first couple of years of his life, but he now spends more time indoors. I am out of options for getting him in. I also don't know what I'll do if he has gone to die under there. I can't imagine he would have gone downhill in just a matter of hours! This is so awful, does anyone have any suggestions? He is not interested at food at this point, so that is not an option. Please help!
