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My cat, Aditya, broke her jaw and fractured her cheek in December 2017. Since her I injury she has been very attached to me- probably because for about 3 months I was spoon feeding her every two hours and giving her medication multiple times a day, and even slept on the floor with her during the nights her pain was the worst. We have always been close, but she was a keep to herself type cat, and now our bond strengthened significantly.
She is mostly healed up now, still and will always have some chronic pain and we still give her medication for the bad days and she is still on a wet food slurry for food, although she does nibble on hard food here and there.
Now, the problem comes at night time. We have two dogs- one who is an absolute sweetheart, but getting older and grumpy. She is the one who snapped at Aditya and injured her. So we have to keep Aditya in a "cat room" at night time, which is a bathroom with absolutely everything she could possibly want or need-based except for me, which seems to be all she wants.
We recently moved into a much bigger apartment and the cat room in the same, a bathroom with all of the same things, but the bathroom is attached to our bedroom and she knows I am in here, so she screams at the door and scratches and puts her paws under the door trying to get to me. She is in there no longer than 6 hours per night, usually from 3am to 9am (I have a strange sleep schedule ) but now I am finding myself having to sit in the bathroom with her for hours to help her fall asleep before I can sneak out and sleep myself, and while she normally is not a cuddly cat, she wants me to hold her the entire time until she falls asleep on my chest.
I tried calling drops in her food an hour before we go to bed and that has not helped.
Any ideas to ease her anxiety and help all of us get some sleep? Any tips are greatly appreciated.
She is mostly healed up now, still and will always have some chronic pain and we still give her medication for the bad days and she is still on a wet food slurry for food, although she does nibble on hard food here and there.
Now, the problem comes at night time. We have two dogs- one who is an absolute sweetheart, but getting older and grumpy. She is the one who snapped at Aditya and injured her. So we have to keep Aditya in a "cat room" at night time, which is a bathroom with absolutely everything she could possibly want or need-based except for me, which seems to be all she wants.
We recently moved into a much bigger apartment and the cat room in the same, a bathroom with all of the same things, but the bathroom is attached to our bedroom and she knows I am in here, so she screams at the door and scratches and puts her paws under the door trying to get to me. She is in there no longer than 6 hours per night, usually from 3am to 9am (I have a strange sleep schedule ) but now I am finding myself having to sit in the bathroom with her for hours to help her fall asleep before I can sneak out and sleep myself, and while she normally is not a cuddly cat, she wants me to hold her the entire time until she falls asleep on my chest.
I tried calling drops in her food an hour before we go to bed and that has not helped.
Any ideas to ease her anxiety and help all of us get some sleep? Any tips are greatly appreciated.
