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Yeah. I mean honestly, I really do feel like it's her only issue. Me and the vet believe she entirely understands the litter box, and when she does use it she seems quite happy with it. She's just in this constant panic of territory and periphery marking. Apparently doing it with feces is an...

Fluoxetine is the generic name for Prozac, so that's what she's currently on. I do notice I can pet her much longer without her having an attack (yes, she hisses and growls, but also lets me touch her, and even lets me put meds in her mouth... she has a very confused and confusing demeanor). She...

Thank you. Yeah, she just went on Prozac last week. Her twitching is better, but we're still waiting to see a mood and anxiety change.

Ok, thanks, and sorry for how sad and hopeless my replies have been. Yeah, this post has turned into a lot more than the original issue... I'm one of those people who doesn't "wear down," I keep going at max speed until I break. And this most recent episode with her was what broke me I guess...

Ok, that's great, but not everyone has almost 10 grand to flush down the drain. I'm not going to put myself in the poor house to test her urine 70 times. It also seems pointless to me to just keep repeating tests my vet doesn't think are worth doing again. Especially when we already have a much...

Oh, ok. Yeah, the issue is, it is a solution that could quite possibly end in her just being out of her mind with anxiety and aggression all the time. And I question whether that's an adequate standard of living for her. At that point, am I just doing it for me, to say I still have her, even...

She's had at least 2 and I'm currently 3k in the hole. How many times am I supposed to retest her before I can move on?

Probably. But she's already in a cage. What will make her crazier? The complete lack of any visual stimulation, or the possibility of seeing another cat? Either way, if that is part of the issue, again, I can't control it. Not unless I'm going to board all my windows and live in darkness...

This has been covered by previous tests. Although they aren't recent, her litterbox issues far predate them. I don't see a reason to re-test.

Because then she's also be able to see the other cats (I know of at least two that sometimes go into my yard). The reason I have no other cats is because Pia goes into murder mode the moment she sees any other cat, and she never comes back out of it no matter how long she's exposed to them, or...

Thanks. Unfortunately, already done all of this, except the robot, because I already know it would make the issue worse: she is terrified of anything that makes any kind of motion or noise without her touching it. This also limits what toys I can get her. So I know all this would accomplish is...

Thank you. It's just frustrating. I wish anything with her was ever that simple, but it never is. She's never been healthy, and she's never been happy. And there was a point where I thought I was gonna be able to change that, but now we're probably more than halfway through her expected...

Look. She's been like this for her entire life, and certainly the 5 years I've had her. She's been turned inside out -- twice -- for immigration exams, which have to adhere to all kinds of crazy health department rules in multiple countries, and do test for basically every infection and parasite...

Yeah. My concern is that her behavior is actually worsening since she went in there. She seemed reasonably confident and ok for the first few days, weirdly enough. More so than she was when she had the whole office and craft room. It was really weird, but it seemed like she preferred the kennel...

The kennel she gave me is very similar to this one. Like I said, this is the only way we've been able to get her to stop defecating on her food. I'd also prefer not to have to confine her, but this is a pretty serious health risk for a cat with other illnesses in which oral infections are a...

Me too. It's only been a week, but so far no change in her mood. I have seen her hyperesthesia slowly improving, however. And I wonder if that is why her mood is so unregulated -- if it's related to that. If that's why nothing I do makes it any better, because it's a physical problem, not a...

So we were unable to get Pia to stop pooping on her food. The aformentioned friend of mine who's an animal trainer at a shelter lent me a cat condo kennel to put her in, and my vet has started her on Prozac. I've seen no change except that she is getting steadily more aggressive. I don't really...

My behaviorist friend thinks putting her in an outdoor enclosure of any kind would be terrible for her, given how violent and aggressive she is towards cats, and that I have at least 2 neighborhood cats that I know sometimes come into my yard. Basically just non-stop anxiety and fear for her...

Hey there. So, we've had a serious problem today... She has a litter box that is in a part of the house she currently doesn't have access to. It's in a closet in my laundry room, but the door's removed, it's kind like in a little cubby space. I took it out to clean today, and I discovered she...

Actually that's a very accessible option for me. I belong to a shared shop space, so I can do things like this for pretty cheap, and know someone who did a small catio. I have space for a large one. I have also been considering building a greenhouse lately, maybe they could be connected (my...