Post Vet Cat Agression Going On For A Week

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Still going on, still zero changes and I am exhausted with this. She hisses in the middle of the night, she growls for no reason. Anytime her sister walks by she swats at her. She growls where her sister has sat before (which is everywhere) but now she’s actively taunting her. Getting right up in her face and growling. Tuxie does not flinch. The vet declined to put her on anything and stated to just try to keep them apart and to wait it out in addition she suggested most of what you all suggested on here. Again we cannot keep them apart when we live in a junior one bedroom condo (only French doors that don’t fully close) we need our bathroom, we cannot leave her in the closet or bathroom all day, either of them will rip the entire thing up, and they share a litter box, and won’t use their own. This is so bad that I am inclined to not have the cat’s teeth cleaned anymore and take them to the vet when only absolutely necessary. Oh and nothing physically wrong with the rag doll per the vet.
 

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After reading the posts the only thing I know for certain it is redirected aggression. She does not recognize her sister at all now, initially because of the smells and cone, and now most likely because of the onesie. If they are that bad I would definitely bring them both along for any future vet visits. For now, call your vet after a little research and see if it would be alright to give Ragdoll some calming meds found on Amazon, they sure worked for mine. You'll need to know the ingredients.
You may have to resort to getting a big dog cage for one of them, most likely the Ragdoll when you are unable to supervise. Big enough to house a small litter box and bedding and food and water.
Time will eventually solve this, but for some reason Ragdoll was especially traumatized, I suspect it was the cone, and is so scared she is senseless. She needs a high up place to escape to, (or Tuxie) like up on a table or on top of the fridge. Definitely take off the onesie once in awhile to let the cat groom and air out, and see if it makes a difference to her sister with it off. I feel sorry for them both and you for having to deal with this. i would concentrate on Ragdoll trying to get her to feel more secure, more petting and treats, and look for signs of aggression like a swishing tail, growls, dilated eyes, and raised fur before approaching her. She is hypersensitive and on guard right now, so will be very likely to attack because of this state, but just remember it is because of the unknown and fear, the same little loving cat you always knew is somewhere in there. her Females are known to be high strung, so once she feels secure everything will return to normal, but right now she feels like there is a stranger in her territory. All the luck and keep us posted!
 
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After reading the posts the only thing I know for certain it is redirected aggression. She does not recognize her sister at all now, initially because of the smells and cone, and now most likely because of the onesie. If they are that bad I would definitely bring them both along for any future vet visits. For now, call your vet after a little research and see if it would be alright to give Ragdoll some calming meds found on Amazon, they sure worked for mine. You'll need to know the ingredients.
You may have to resort to getting a big dog cage for one of them, most likely the Ragdoll when you are unable to supervise. Big enough to house a small litter box and bedding and food and water.
Time will eventually solve this, but for some reason Ragdoll was especially traumatized, I suspect it was the cone, and is so scared she is senseless. She needs a high up place to escape to, (or Tuxie) like up on a table or on top of the fridge. Definitely take off the onesie once in awhile to let the cat groom and air out, and see if it makes a difference to her sister with it off. I feel sorry for them both and you for having to deal with this. i would concentrate on Ragdoll trying to get her to feel more secure, more petting and treats, and look for signs of aggression like a swishing tail, growls, dilated eyes, and raised fur before approaching her. She is hypersensitive and on guard right now, so will be very likely to attack because of this state, but just remember it is because of the unknown and fear, the same little loving cat you always knew is somewhere in there. her Females are known to be high strung, so once she feels secure everything will return to normal, but right now she feels like there is a stranger in her territory. All the luck and keep us posted!
Thanks so much. This community always makes me feel so supported. We removed the onesie and put her in a soft cone that we got on amazon she likes that much better. The ragdoll did not seem to care one way or the other what her sister was wearing. The odd thing is that they wear clothes all the time, both of them. They wore Christmas sweaters for a week at Christmas and nobody was hissing. I am thinking about putting them both back in them! We are thinking it could be that we cannot still bathe the tuxedo. We got some cat wipes and washed the areas we could on here, but that did not work either. Once we get the okay to give tuxie a bath, we are going to bathe both of them. I have told my fiance about the small cage thing and he said he will go get one and a small litter box to put in there after work. Ragdoll does have many high places to go, she's a jumper and Tuxie cannot jump at all (she's too heavy) and certainly not with the cut where it is on her. Adding to the stress is that we are going to Australia for a week (fiance's parents live there and his Mom is not well) in a month, and we are very afraid this will be going on then too. We have a cat sitter that the cats both love, but if she is scratching and biting my fiance and I I suspect she may do the same for them. We've doen this trip plenty of times before, often for longer and they were fine. But now I do not know what we will return to. Honestly I wish we never let the Tuxie have this surgery. She had a lipoma and we could have just had it biopsied, but the doctor said to take it off. Had I know it would create this much of a situation I would have told them no. Ragdoll has always been the skiddish one, and she can be moody, but never this bad and never for this long.
 

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I don't know if this could work or not, but what if you took the Ragdoll out for a drive in the car. Or to a friend's house for an hour or so. Anywhere different, so that she'd be the returnee when she got home. Maybe that might change the dynamics between them.
 
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Final update thanks to all. The aggression finally stopped. Tuxie came home from the vet after having the stitches removed . As soon as she got out of the carrier rag doll walked right up to her and smelled the wound directly where the stitches had been and after that she was back to normal. They are grooming each other and cuddling. So had to be the stitches!
 
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