Sassy is nearly 20 now (just a few more weeks).
She seems to have become mostly blind, and also lost a bit of her hearing. She may have a bit of feline dementia (but not sure).
We are a single cat home with her since our other cat left us 7 years ago.
She has always been a bit anxious and takes a 2x/day dose of Amitryptinline to help with that (which also seems to help her brain function, I think)
She spends most of her days sleeping or moping about the house to eat and drink.
She has done quite well navigating our stairs and using her litterbox.
We have always used a litter mat at the entrance to her box. We recently added an underlayer of absorbent training pads as she had begun occasionally urinating on the litter mat.
Recently, she has begun openly urinating on the bathroom floor, even if the box is clean, sometimes on the training pad, sometimes on the floor, sometimes still in the box.
Today, she started to crouch in our open dining room to urinate on the floor (she had gotten "lost" amid the legs of the chairs under the table, like a hall of mirrors). I scooped her up (mostly) in time, and she continued urinating on herself.
Note: She did this 1x before a few months ago, but we attribute that to the stress of us cleaning the carpets with a machine over a weekend.
I got her cleaned up.
The question is...now what?
Sure, I imagine a trip to the vet is the first recommendation. Due to the pandemic, her anxiety and our vet not allowing owners in with their pets for visits, we are not comfortable just turning her over to the vet. Also, not entirely comfortable with her having the stress of testing (bloodwork, etc.).
She seems to have become mostly blind, and also lost a bit of her hearing. She may have a bit of feline dementia (but not sure).
We are a single cat home with her since our other cat left us 7 years ago.
She has always been a bit anxious and takes a 2x/day dose of Amitryptinline to help with that (which also seems to help her brain function, I think)
She spends most of her days sleeping or moping about the house to eat and drink.
She has done quite well navigating our stairs and using her litterbox.
We have always used a litter mat at the entrance to her box. We recently added an underlayer of absorbent training pads as she had begun occasionally urinating on the litter mat.
Recently, she has begun openly urinating on the bathroom floor, even if the box is clean, sometimes on the training pad, sometimes on the floor, sometimes still in the box.
Today, she started to crouch in our open dining room to urinate on the floor (she had gotten "lost" amid the legs of the chairs under the table, like a hall of mirrors). I scooped her up (mostly) in time, and she continued urinating on herself.
Note: She did this 1x before a few months ago, but we attribute that to the stress of us cleaning the carpets with a machine over a weekend.
I got her cleaned up.
The question is...now what?
Sure, I imagine a trip to the vet is the first recommendation. Due to the pandemic, her anxiety and our vet not allowing owners in with their pets for visits, we are not comfortable just turning her over to the vet. Also, not entirely comfortable with her having the stress of testing (bloodwork, etc.).