I realize you're angry, upset, and frustrated. Apart from the fact that you portray your attitude as being completely heartless, which naturally offends us here at THE CAT SITE (though many of us have experienced threatening, dangerous, and frustrating experiences ourselves), your cat did NOT freak out because she does not appreciate you or your home. Your cat was in distress. Whether medical or otherwise, her response was not out of "lack of * appreciation. I do hope that if you adopt another cat, it will never experience any health problems that you have no desire to help her through.
Again, this is not my frirst cat. Ive had two myself (both adopted at a fairly young age), and grew up with plenty more in the family. My first cat was asthmatic, and the second was hit by a car around the age of five, requiring her left rear leg be amputated. I gladly paid the bills because i loved the cats, and because i knew that the cats were not money pits. The asthmatic cat died at 11 years old, and the amputee died at 13, only two years ago.
1. I didnt throw her in the dog cage, i have never handled the cat with anything other than loving care. Scruffing a cat is not a voilent nor agressive manuver, it is how mothers deal with their children, and how any professional disarms a cat without causing it pain or panic.I really am in tears right now. For this cat....I seriously still think handling her the way you did that first episode, scruffing her, throwing her in a dog cage, the hosing outside on the patio with her in the crate, just tears me up inside. That is animal cruelty. I am just sick to read that you did that to the cat. That only led her to become more emotionally unstable, even if it was something gone wrong in her brain, that was just cruel to hose her. I am really sorry for this cat.
OMG I have read this and I'm disgusted.Last year I got attacked by a cat who I adopted and I required hospital treatment.I wanted to still keep him as I loved him but I knew it wasn't the right thing to do,I rung around and and found a rescue centre that re-homed him for me on a farm.They had the vet check him over first.I could never of had him PTS ever.There could be something underlying and she could be ill,people suffer from mental illness and so can cats,do we just put down every human that suffers from mental illness?I hope that you can live with yourself if you have her put to sleep and please never consider getting another cat again!
She is at the vets office now, they are monitoring their behavior and have contacted a specialist. Euthanasia is not my first choice, and i would like more than anything to have my cute cuddly kitten back. But i have to face facts of what i can and cant do. Taking care of a cat with the issues she has is not an option for me, and thus far, my attempts to find anybody willing to take her in have been fruitless. Every place i have called as told me that aggressive animals are put down. The veterinarians office is her last chance really, and i pray that its the chance she needs. Until then, my hands are tied.
I think it was just the way you presented the initial post... and continue to be, at least in text, aggressive and nonchalant. And hard as it is (see my temper flare after even the first response), we do hang around here to help. I hate to see anyone seeing this obviously AWESOME community in a negative light.
I can see that working a traumatized animal -- however the initial incident happened, and no matter what may have immediately followed -- might not be something the OP wants to participate in. But I ask you to please, please, please actually take her back to the veterinarian you adopted her from or looking into a rescue/shelter situation rather than immediate euthanasia. It may seem like a humane decision, when in actuality, it is a convenient decision. If you don't feel like taking it on yourself, seek someone who will. I know there are many people out there in the world who would be willing to help.
Thank you for taking her to the vet. As CrumbandHarvey pointed out, I think most of us were reacting to your initial comment, "I love this cat, but if she so much as hisses at me again, shes going to have a short trip to euthanasia land." You were likely scared, hurt, and angry, and understandably so. But even in jest, it comes of as extremely callous, and it's hard not to react to it. This is a site where we try to help people work through their problems with their cats, and no one wants to see a human in danger either. But we also care about solving the problem and ultimately helping the cat. People reacted to how you handled the situation and how you wrote about it.
And we don't know you, didn't know that, and I'm sorry that you've had more than your fair share of pain. The one thing about forums is that we don't know the tone with which something was written and we don't know anything about the background of the person writing it. We can only base a response on what we read and how it was written.
I can't speak for the others, but upon reading what happened to her, I suspected a medical basis for the issue. I also suspect euthanasia may be the best or only real option for finding her peace.
But in your situation, I'd want a vet to make that decision.
Wow, that's really interesting. I've heard of the flea spray problem, and cerebellar hypoplasia (kittens born to a mom with parvovirus), but nothing like that. How WONDERFUL you found a solution!
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