This may not be the right forum, I'm not sure, so please forgive me if it's not...
I've recently been through a lot with my cat, he went through a urinary blockage that was very stressful for both of us, lots of late night trips and watching & waiting... and no answers. The vets have no idea why it happened, the only answer they gave was "probably stress related".
Now I've got a vacation planned coming up in a couple weeks, and I'm to be gone almost 10 days. I live alone, and I had planned to have family stop over once or twice a day to feed & play with him. And now I'm worried that being alone so much may cause him stress and since we don't know what caused the problem in the first place... I have no idea what may happen in the 10 days I'm gone.
One vet recommended that I put him on a low-dose gabapentin for stress / anxiety. I was trying to keep him off meds (he just finished a course of this for pain management during recovery) but maybe that's one option? I have heard there are places that will have a caretaker come to your house and feed / play with him here in his space... something about an app you can get where people register locally to do that. I don't know anything about that though, and I don't know how I feel about someone in my house for 10 days.
Does anyone have experience with this kind of thing?
I've recently been through a lot with my cat, he went through a urinary blockage that was very stressful for both of us, lots of late night trips and watching & waiting... and no answers. The vets have no idea why it happened, the only answer they gave was "probably stress related".
Now I've got a vacation planned coming up in a couple weeks, and I'm to be gone almost 10 days. I live alone, and I had planned to have family stop over once or twice a day to feed & play with him. And now I'm worried that being alone so much may cause him stress and since we don't know what caused the problem in the first place... I have no idea what may happen in the 10 days I'm gone.
One vet recommended that I put him on a low-dose gabapentin for stress / anxiety. I was trying to keep him off meds (he just finished a course of this for pain management during recovery) but maybe that's one option? I have heard there are places that will have a caretaker come to your house and feed / play with him here in his space... something about an app you can get where people register locally to do that. I don't know anything about that though, and I don't know how I feel about someone in my house for 10 days.
Does anyone have experience with this kind of thing?