Hello everyone, I’m hoping that someone can help a frustrated and concerned cat mom.
In our family we had 2 rescues, Liam who is 11yrs old now (rescued at age 2) and Ace who recently passed away at age 12 (we rescued him at age 6). Inside cats.
The boys were friends and got along pretty well. In june my husband and I went on a 10 day vacation. We had found a couple of fleas the day we left and didn’t have time to get them under control before we left. We had a pet sitter visiting the boys while we were gone.
When we arrived back home, all hell broke loose. The cats were marking the house up...the house was flea infested and the brothers were avoiding each other. Since we had problems with certain flea meds in the past, we tried to conquer the fleas naturally which eventually didn’t work and had to resort to the meds. During this time, Ace started acting strange and started bleeding from his mouth. We took him to the vet and the vet said he needed some teeth pulled. We scheduled the surgery for mid August. When we returned home, he refused to leave the tub....refused to eat. He had a major bleeding event and 3 days later he crossed the rainbow bridge. During the time that Ace was in the bathroom, Liam would hide in the basement. He peed at least once outside the litter box in the basement. At first we let him stay in the basement but when we discovered the fleas had invaded the basement too, we brought him upstairs. He retreated to a room that we call “the cat room “. The first couple days he retreated there he kept peeing on the floor, in his food bowl....instead of going to the litter box in the basement.
We brought a litter box to the room and he hasn’t peed outside the box since. Since the natural method didn’t work against the fleas, we got Revolution from the vet and now there are very few fleas on him. Because he has retreated to the room, the fleas in the rest of the house are getting under control.
Now for the problem, he won’t leave the cat room.
He sleeps alot, watches the birds out the windows. His food and litter box are in the room with him. We try to play with him but he doesn’t seem too interested. Now that the fleas are not constantly bothering him, he is sleeping better. I have tried bringing him out of the room and he will sit on my lap for a few minutes before running back to the cat room. Any ideas on helping him return to the little buddy he use to be? Or should we be more worried?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Liam’s mom
In our family we had 2 rescues, Liam who is 11yrs old now (rescued at age 2) and Ace who recently passed away at age 12 (we rescued him at age 6). Inside cats.
The boys were friends and got along pretty well. In june my husband and I went on a 10 day vacation. We had found a couple of fleas the day we left and didn’t have time to get them under control before we left. We had a pet sitter visiting the boys while we were gone.
When we arrived back home, all hell broke loose. The cats were marking the house up...the house was flea infested and the brothers were avoiding each other. Since we had problems with certain flea meds in the past, we tried to conquer the fleas naturally which eventually didn’t work and had to resort to the meds. During this time, Ace started acting strange and started bleeding from his mouth. We took him to the vet and the vet said he needed some teeth pulled. We scheduled the surgery for mid August. When we returned home, he refused to leave the tub....refused to eat. He had a major bleeding event and 3 days later he crossed the rainbow bridge. During the time that Ace was in the bathroom, Liam would hide in the basement. He peed at least once outside the litter box in the basement. At first we let him stay in the basement but when we discovered the fleas had invaded the basement too, we brought him upstairs. He retreated to a room that we call “the cat room “. The first couple days he retreated there he kept peeing on the floor, in his food bowl....instead of going to the litter box in the basement.
We brought a litter box to the room and he hasn’t peed outside the box since. Since the natural method didn’t work against the fleas, we got Revolution from the vet and now there are very few fleas on him. Because he has retreated to the room, the fleas in the rest of the house are getting under control.
Now for the problem, he won’t leave the cat room.
He sleeps alot, watches the birds out the windows. His food and litter box are in the room with him. We try to play with him but he doesn’t seem too interested. Now that the fleas are not constantly bothering him, he is sleeping better. I have tried bringing him out of the room and he will sit on my lap for a few minutes before running back to the cat room. Any ideas on helping him return to the little buddy he use to be? Or should we be more worried?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Liam’s mom
