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Thank you--I hope we can reach that point. This would be so much easier if it were happening at the beginning of winter and not spring-- there have been a few cold nights when she's ventured onto the catio, then pretty quickly hustled inside to curl up.

Thank you! The "wanting outdoors" thing is rough. I just got home from work and opened up the catio, and right now she's pacing the house howling. :( She normally does this for a stretch of time then tires herself out and sleeps. We can play with a wand toy with her, but only for around...

Thanks for asking. I will say that we are never using gabapentin again! Just like last time we took her to the vet she spent the next 24 hours out of her mind howling and pacing and literally clawing in cabinets trying to find a way out of the house. The vet said it sounded like gabapentin...

That is good to know--I will ask about it if the trazodone doesn't work.

Thanks, all, sorry for not replying sooner--for some reason I didn't get emails that you all had replied. We went ahead with the gabapentin even though we managed to get a prescription for trazodone. I just wasn't sure if she would eat the trazodone in her pill pocket and we were supposed to...

I have a senior feral kitty with health issues that I've posted about quite a bit in the ferals forum. She's been indoors for a couple of months and we're starting to make progress on socializing her. Except... we have a vet appointment with a specialist on Thursday. The last time we took her...

I've found a home vet who is able to visit the week following when her appointment at the derm is currently scheduled for. So now I have two appointments on the books, one with the derm at their office, the other one at home. I need to decide which one to cancel! I feel that there are strong...

Cost is definitely not an issue with us, we pretty much spend all our discretionary income on our cats. The problem is coordinating the availability of vets with both my and my husband's work schedules. :( the dermatologist recommended upping the gabapentin dose and using a towel to make a cat...

It turns out that there are no home visit vets available for the timeframe that we would need to have her rechecked, unfortunately. I've made the appointment to take her back to the dermatologist. Re: bad cop, I definitely don't plan to mistreat her, but can be the one to take the lead in...

Thanks for all your advice throughout this. I need to make a decision in the next day or so so that we can get an appointment on the books with either the derm or a home vet visit. She is definitely still wary. Even in her "sleeping" photo you can see that she's still keeping an eye on me. She...

I have about three and a half weeks to figure out how to get HLA back to the vet. The dermatologist she's seeing wants to recheck her blood work because she had anemia last time and also of course see how her skin is continuing to do on the steroids. The vet said we could have a home vet visit...

Thank you! I am getting these for sure.

What a cutie! As far as I know, none of the vets have checked for a chip, although I'll ask when we take her in next.

This is a good idea! I was reluctant to wear gloves because everything I have in the house is very loose (like oven mitts) and I was worried I wouldn't be able to keep my grip. But need to start shopping for these things now.

Her room is littered with toys, including the yeowww catnip fish. She hasn't shown any interest in playing until now. It's like this vet visit triggered a whole personality change for her. I have a tall cat tower I was going to set up in there after giving her a few days to calm down but I...

She started howling again, unfortunately. I went in the room and tried waving a feather toy around. She actually started playing with it! She seemed pretty engaged with it for about 20 minutes. This is a definite first. I wonder if some of her stress is due to boredom.

Thank you--since your comment about gaba backfiring I've been hunting for more info on that, but there seems to be almost no info online about gaba increasing agitation/anxiety. Awaiting a response on that from the vet. Last night the only thing that would get her to stop freaking out was when...

Good question on the spay scar, I did email the vet with my concerns about her possibly being unspayed--given that they shaved her hopefully they would have noticed that and can share.

In addition to everything else, this appears to have caused a flare of her pemphigus, which is the whole reason we have her indoors in the first place. At the vet yesterday they said she had healed remarkably well, including her ears. Today she is constantly scratching, grooming, pawing at her...

Thanks for asking... this morning she is quiet. She ate a little food I put down late last night but hasn't eaten today. The room is in disarray from where she was pacing and pawing at things. I'm wondering if this could be attributed to either the gabapentin or the possibility that she might...