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Hi everyone! New to this site - just registered a few min ago. I’m having a problem with my cat and need help!
So, let me start by saying my cat, Bandit, is the most loving angel in the world. She’s about 2, a little tortie. Ever since the day we brought her home she’s been loving and wonderful and carefree. She sleeps under my chin every night, she kisses and licks me all day and sits on my lap to the point where I have to move her multiple times a day when I’m trying to work. She literally never wants to stop cuddling, playing and getting attention. So, the other day we got a new bedspread that’s black (ours have been white in the past). I only mention this because I’m trying to think of anything that could’ve set her off? But Bandit was totally fine with it, rolling around, kissing, licking, sleeping as usual. She even played hide and seek in it as we put it on, as she always does when we change the duvet cover or the sheets. Anyway, on Sunday late afternoon (a few days after changing the bedspread), I was playing a video game and she was sitting with me and my partner on the bed as usual. We also have a surge protector with the phone cable and computer chargers on the bed nearby. I get up to go to the bathroom and suddenly hear something drop and Bandit is in front of me. My boyfriend said she just out of the blue jumped up and ran and knocked all the cables over. We assumed she freaked herself out by touching something, or maybe even got a little shock somehow? Either way, since then (it’s now Tuesday night), we haven’t been able to get her on the bed. She’s terrified. She’s crouching, walking with her tail between her legs trying to investigate it. We have tried to tempt her over with treats and toys but nothing. We finally put her on the bed, but on the other side of where she was scared and pet her to show her nothing was there, but she just stared at the one spot freaking out jumping backwards. We removed all the cables because it seemed they were what was scaring but her - still nothing. She’s just either sitting by the foot of the bed staring up at us and taking little steps toward it then jumping back, or sitting upstairs and staring at the bed. She has not spent even one night not under my chin or on my legs since the day we brought her home and now she’s been sleeping upstairs the last two nights. She is still eating, drinking, grooming, sleeping. But she’s scared and we can’t get her to come back to the bed. Now I’m scared she’s going to be like this forever and will never go back to being my loving, carefree little angel. So, needless to say - I’m sad and concerned, and she seems so sad that she can’t come lay and play with us like she always does. Of course I’ve gone to her to pet her and comfort her, but she’s fixated on staring at the bed.
Sorry for the super long first post but... any suggestions? What can I do to make her feel comfortable again? I just want my baby back
So, let me start by saying my cat, Bandit, is the most loving angel in the world. She’s about 2, a little tortie. Ever since the day we brought her home she’s been loving and wonderful and carefree. She sleeps under my chin every night, she kisses and licks me all day and sits on my lap to the point where I have to move her multiple times a day when I’m trying to work. She literally never wants to stop cuddling, playing and getting attention. So, the other day we got a new bedspread that’s black (ours have been white in the past). I only mention this because I’m trying to think of anything that could’ve set her off? But Bandit was totally fine with it, rolling around, kissing, licking, sleeping as usual. She even played hide and seek in it as we put it on, as she always does when we change the duvet cover or the sheets. Anyway, on Sunday late afternoon (a few days after changing the bedspread), I was playing a video game and she was sitting with me and my partner on the bed as usual. We also have a surge protector with the phone cable and computer chargers on the bed nearby. I get up to go to the bathroom and suddenly hear something drop and Bandit is in front of me. My boyfriend said she just out of the blue jumped up and ran and knocked all the cables over. We assumed she freaked herself out by touching something, or maybe even got a little shock somehow? Either way, since then (it’s now Tuesday night), we haven’t been able to get her on the bed. She’s terrified. She’s crouching, walking with her tail between her legs trying to investigate it. We have tried to tempt her over with treats and toys but nothing. We finally put her on the bed, but on the other side of where she was scared and pet her to show her nothing was there, but she just stared at the one spot freaking out jumping backwards. We removed all the cables because it seemed they were what was scaring but her - still nothing. She’s just either sitting by the foot of the bed staring up at us and taking little steps toward it then jumping back, or sitting upstairs and staring at the bed. She has not spent even one night not under my chin or on my legs since the day we brought her home and now she’s been sleeping upstairs the last two nights. She is still eating, drinking, grooming, sleeping. But she’s scared and we can’t get her to come back to the bed. Now I’m scared she’s going to be like this forever and will never go back to being my loving, carefree little angel. So, needless to say - I’m sad and concerned, and she seems so sad that she can’t come lay and play with us like she always does. Of course I’ve gone to her to pet her and comfort her, but she’s fixated on staring at the bed.
Sorry for the super long first post but... any suggestions? What can I do to make her feel comfortable again? I just want my baby back