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I (we’ve) had my little cat for five years we adopted both her and her brother and raised them as indoor cats. The girl has always been a bit more anxious around others when we had visitors in the home, quite territorial, sometimes scratching, stalking behaviors but generally keeps to herself otherwise. She gets peevish towards my husband at times if he lets her too much and he gets a little nervous around her from time to time but otherwise she shows him affection and he plays with her lots. I am pregnant for the first time and baby is coming soon. My husband was away for a couple days and she went bonkers on him when he came home, hissing stalking, charging him wouldn’t even let him through the front door. Her brother came to see her during this and she attacked him brutally (first time ever). I was able to calm her when I got home but after a couple days and trying to reintroduce her and her brother nothing was helping. We had her checked out at the vet and started her on Clonicalm. It’s been difficult getting the dose in her as she will often refuse to eat the treats the dose is in once she tastes one. But she was slowly able to be reintroduced to both her brother and my husband. Two weeks late I thought it was happy days, she was even tolerating visitors at the house (one at a time to start) so much better then even before. Her little personality even started to come back after starting the medications. However again today my husband came back after a couple work shifts in a row and she hissed and tried to attack him again when he entered the front door. I don’t know what to do. I will phone the vet this week and see, maybe two weeks isn’t enough for the medication to fully work. I am also so nervous everyday when I give her her dose because sometimes she won’t even take it and if I can’t get it into her then what else can I do to help her. Please any advice. Since she was reintroduced we have put cat trees upstairs, play with her at least 10-15 minutes first thing when we get up.