At this point I am exhausted. I've been up all night trying to come to grips with what I should do in this situation and I need some other perspectives, because all my relatives have done is confuse me.
To give a little backstory, my cat is not very loving most of the time. so much so, that when she is we are very excited to get the attention from her. However, she has never hurt anyone badly, more than an occasional nip. Well, two days ago she clamped onto my wife's nose, for no reason, and now we're afraid of having her around our seven year old son and the children my wife babysits for fear that she will harm them. She been acting strange for awhile, the vet can't seem to find anything physically wrong with her, but she gets in these moods like she's crazy, arching her back, hssing, it's really strange as far as i'm concerned.
The point is, I don't know what to do with her.
The suggestions we've gotten are to take her to the SPCA, where most likely she'll be put down because they won't be able to find a home for her; to get her fixed (I really think the issue is larger than hormonal though isn't it?) or to set her free on a farm somewhere and let her fend for herself.
I just don't know, we're so upset, does anyone here have any suggestions as to the proper action here? Are we overeacting? Undereacting?
To give a little backstory, my cat is not very loving most of the time. so much so, that when she is we are very excited to get the attention from her. However, she has never hurt anyone badly, more than an occasional nip. Well, two days ago she clamped onto my wife's nose, for no reason, and now we're afraid of having her around our seven year old son and the children my wife babysits for fear that she will harm them. She been acting strange for awhile, the vet can't seem to find anything physically wrong with her, but she gets in these moods like she's crazy, arching her back, hssing, it's really strange as far as i'm concerned.
The point is, I don't know what to do with her.
The suggestions we've gotten are to take her to the SPCA, where most likely she'll be put down because they won't be able to find a home for her; to get her fixed (I really think the issue is larger than hormonal though isn't it?) or to set her free on a farm somewhere and let her fend for herself.
I just don't know, we're so upset, does anyone here have any suggestions as to the proper action here? Are we overeacting? Undereacting?