We have a 14-year-old Persian, Snalbert. He is usually very sweet-tempered and vocal, and never seemed to have a mean bone in his body.
We also have a 15-year-old Persian and two 5-month-old kittens. Everyone generally gets along really well. There's very minimal hissing from the older cats even when the kittens are hogging their food bowls, trying to play with them, etc. More often than not, we find all four sleeping on our bed together. We feel very lucky that the older cats adjusted so well.
But....
Snalbert had calicivirus for a month, and we were giving him an appetite stimulant, Cypro. This can make cats agitated. So when I discovered Snalbert biting our other older cat, twice in two weeks, I figured that's what his problem was. Our vet agreed, especially since the Cypro was making him unbelievably vocal, too. We took him off it.
Within a week, he seemed more normal but in the meantime he had bitten one of our kittens the same way. He simply sank his teeth into her and kept them there, vampire-style. I heard her complaining and made him get away from her. He did.
But now he's been off Cypro for two weeks. And for two nights in a row, he's woken up from napping peacefully beside my husband and me on the couch as we're watching movies, snapped at us, and tried to bite us. He sank his teeth into my husband's sleeve and wouldn't let go. It was scary. He nearly did the same thing to me last night but I jumped off the sofa and distracted him with food.
What's going on? He gets wild-eyed, snaps at us, is very "aroused" (sexually, but he's neutered, of course) and then he sinks his teeth into whoever is nearby and just leaves them there.
Any thoughts? Does Cypro take this long to wear off? He is definitely "not himself" when he's doing this — he seems like a totally different cat.
Thanks!
We also have a 15-year-old Persian and two 5-month-old kittens. Everyone generally gets along really well. There's very minimal hissing from the older cats even when the kittens are hogging their food bowls, trying to play with them, etc. More often than not, we find all four sleeping on our bed together. We feel very lucky that the older cats adjusted so well.
But....
Snalbert had calicivirus for a month, and we were giving him an appetite stimulant, Cypro. This can make cats agitated. So when I discovered Snalbert biting our other older cat, twice in two weeks, I figured that's what his problem was. Our vet agreed, especially since the Cypro was making him unbelievably vocal, too. We took him off it.
Within a week, he seemed more normal but in the meantime he had bitten one of our kittens the same way. He simply sank his teeth into her and kept them there, vampire-style. I heard her complaining and made him get away from her. He did.
But now he's been off Cypro for two weeks. And for two nights in a row, he's woken up from napping peacefully beside my husband and me on the couch as we're watching movies, snapped at us, and tried to bite us. He sank his teeth into my husband's sleeve and wouldn't let go. It was scary. He nearly did the same thing to me last night but I jumped off the sofa and distracted him with food.
What's going on? He gets wild-eyed, snaps at us, is very "aroused" (sexually, but he's neutered, of course) and then he sinks his teeth into whoever is nearby and just leaves them there.
Any thoughts? Does Cypro take this long to wear off? He is definitely "not himself" when he's doing this — he seems like a totally different cat.
Thanks!