Hello all! It's been a while since I posted, but starting yesterday, I noticed something rather odd about my cat, Little Girl.
She has suddenly lost the desire to jump up on furniture and has gotten rather timid about it. I noticed it when she didn't want to jump up onto the counter for her food. I usually pick her up and place her up there when she hesitates, so I didn't really think anything of it. Then, yesterday, I notice that she'll meow to get up on my lap and go so far as to place her front paws on me, but she will make a little bunny hop effort and then look at me like...okay, now you can pick me up!
Last night, she had no problem jumping up on the sofas to get into the windows. She had no problem climbing into bed with me. She still will not jump up to get her food. Her back legs are functioning. They are warm to the touch, so I don't think it could be a blood clot. She still runs and plays and acts like herself. No changes in eating or drinking. No changes in her litter habits.
The only really big change in our household is that we have been having a lot of earthquakes lately and that makes her EXTREMELY nervous and skittish. We had a 4.1 magnitude the other day and I found her burrowed under the covers not wanting to come out. Since then, we've had about 7 earthquakes and aftershocks. Is she simply scared. lazy, or does something like this warrant a trip to the vet?
She has suddenly lost the desire to jump up on furniture and has gotten rather timid about it. I noticed it when she didn't want to jump up onto the counter for her food. I usually pick her up and place her up there when she hesitates, so I didn't really think anything of it. Then, yesterday, I notice that she'll meow to get up on my lap and go so far as to place her front paws on me, but she will make a little bunny hop effort and then look at me like...okay, now you can pick me up!
Last night, she had no problem jumping up on the sofas to get into the windows. She had no problem climbing into bed with me. She still will not jump up to get her food. Her back legs are functioning. They are warm to the touch, so I don't think it could be a blood clot. She still runs and plays and acts like herself. No changes in eating or drinking. No changes in her litter habits.
The only really big change in our household is that we have been having a lot of earthquakes lately and that makes her EXTREMELY nervous and skittish. We had a 4.1 magnitude the other day and I found her burrowed under the covers not wanting to come out. Since then, we've had about 7 earthquakes and aftershocks. Is she simply scared. lazy, or does something like this warrant a trip to the vet?
