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Hello,
I am new to the group and I am desperate for help.
We have a 2 year old male cat, that’s been castrated, named Momo, an indoor cat.
Two weeks ago he started peeing outside his litter box after being in contact with a lily flower.
We took him to the vet and he has been diagnosed with crystals in his urine and an infection for which we were described antibiotics for. We were supposed to give him a pill a day for 10 days. Momo wouldn’t really take them so we forced him by shoving the pill in his mouth and closing his mouth. Around day 6, while we were leaving the room, Momo attacked me furiously, biting and scratching while hissing and howling. Day 7, no attacks. Day 8, during the day he attacked my husband the same way he attacked me. We left him alone to calm down for a few hours. We went to our room as usual (Momo usually sleeps and eats in our room), and I had a good time playing with him and he came to me purring, but my husband got on his feet and Momo got very aggressive once again, but this time Momo didn’t stop attacking he kept chasing my husband until Momo pooped and peed in the middle of the attack. 10 minutes later he violently attacked me the same way, scratching and biting while hissing and howling. Both me and my husband have been treated for his bites and scratches with a tetanus shot and antibiotics. That night we left him alone with plenty of water and food and a clean litter box. The next day I made the mistake of opening the door, where he also wanted to attack me but this time I had a basket with me where I had him in while cleaning his litter and filling the bowls with food and water. During this time he hissed a lot, but it had to be done and then we let him in his/our room alone.
In the next few days we have tried slow reintroduction, allowing him out of the room, playing with him and giving him lots of treats and pets. To this Momo reacted so good, normal as any other day, in the past few days we even went in and out of room for short period of times ~5 minutes, while giving him treats.
Unfortunately, today we tried the same thing, we left him out of the room, he came running to us, went in the room with the treats, he was purring and rubbing himself against us. Up until this point he was completely normal, when suddenly he attacked me while hissing and howling. He didn’t show any signs of aggression, or aggravation or that he was getting annoyed and stressed by our presence beforehand.
We live in a small country and we cannot find a behaviorist even in our region and close states.
We are desperate for help but even our vet said that he cannot really know what caused him to lash out again.
We are very unsure of the steps we should take now and don’t really have much ideas as how we should continue with Momo. Can this be territorial aggression or is he that much traumatized by the antibiotics?
Any advice would be helpful!!
I am new to the group and I am desperate for help.
We have a 2 year old male cat, that’s been castrated, named Momo, an indoor cat.
Two weeks ago he started peeing outside his litter box after being in contact with a lily flower.
We took him to the vet and he has been diagnosed with crystals in his urine and an infection for which we were described antibiotics for. We were supposed to give him a pill a day for 10 days. Momo wouldn’t really take them so we forced him by shoving the pill in his mouth and closing his mouth. Around day 6, while we were leaving the room, Momo attacked me furiously, biting and scratching while hissing and howling. Day 7, no attacks. Day 8, during the day he attacked my husband the same way he attacked me. We left him alone to calm down for a few hours. We went to our room as usual (Momo usually sleeps and eats in our room), and I had a good time playing with him and he came to me purring, but my husband got on his feet and Momo got very aggressive once again, but this time Momo didn’t stop attacking he kept chasing my husband until Momo pooped and peed in the middle of the attack. 10 minutes later he violently attacked me the same way, scratching and biting while hissing and howling. Both me and my husband have been treated for his bites and scratches with a tetanus shot and antibiotics. That night we left him alone with plenty of water and food and a clean litter box. The next day I made the mistake of opening the door, where he also wanted to attack me but this time I had a basket with me where I had him in while cleaning his litter and filling the bowls with food and water. During this time he hissed a lot, but it had to be done and then we let him in his/our room alone.
In the next few days we have tried slow reintroduction, allowing him out of the room, playing with him and giving him lots of treats and pets. To this Momo reacted so good, normal as any other day, in the past few days we even went in and out of room for short period of times ~5 minutes, while giving him treats.
Unfortunately, today we tried the same thing, we left him out of the room, he came running to us, went in the room with the treats, he was purring and rubbing himself against us. Up until this point he was completely normal, when suddenly he attacked me while hissing and howling. He didn’t show any signs of aggression, or aggravation or that he was getting annoyed and stressed by our presence beforehand.
We live in a small country and we cannot find a behaviorist even in our region and close states.
We are desperate for help but even our vet said that he cannot really know what caused him to lash out again.
We are very unsure of the steps we should take now and don’t really have much ideas as how we should continue with Momo. Can this be territorial aggression or is he that much traumatized by the antibiotics?
Any advice would be helpful!!