Hi,
I'm new here, and its a long story, but I will try to shorten it.
We had a male cat (Lando) from Oct-Jan, he sadly had a serious tail pull injury some how when out, and after 5 days in hospital, tail amputation, and was double incontinent post injury, we had to make the very hard decision to say goodbye. I had learned to manually express his bladder, but his pain was too great and there was talk of using fentanyl patches, which I was scared of having children in the house
We missed having a cat around the house, so we then rehomed a rescue female cat (Willow) she's quite nervous, but has gotten better over the weeks, and is an acceptable level of calm, although pretty aloof and only accepts petting when she wants food. I can live with that.
Meanwhile, Lando's breeder told us he had another cat we could have, and she was half ragdoll, half BSH (same ragdoll dad as Lando). So... on the basis that we thought she might be a bit like Lando (dog cat) we rehomed Olivia. Well, she is scared of everything, hid for 10 days, only came out at night to eat and use the litter tray. She is in a room on her own as I wanted to introduce her to Willow with a cautious approach.
She will come out to me now, I'm spending lots of time in the room with my laptop working. We think shes on heat, shes almost lost her voice from meowing, she is incredibly skittish, wont go near my husband. We needed to get her vet checked, so we had the vet come here as there is no way i'd get her into a cat carrier. I can't pick her up at all. When the vet came here, she went mental, running around the room, climbing up the walls, crashed into the window, when the vet managed to get a hand on her she was attacked. I've never seen anything like it, until I looked on youtube!
In your experience, what am I dealing with here? The vet is talking about putting her on gabapentin for anxiety as she's so scared of everything. The vet even commented that 'I wouldnt blame you if you rehomed her' and 'shes a very tricky one'. My brain is going to explode because I don't know what to do for the best, if we are keeping her then we need to have her spayed, and introduce her to Willow and the rest of the house. But I didn't want her to meet Willow until she was vet checked.... I know shes had no vaccines and has been an indoor cat, but I'm still nervous. But as the vet can't even get a hand on her, what should I do.
If anyone has any suggestions I'd be grateful.
We have Feliway plug-ins, radio on in the room, webcam in there too so we could see what she was doing when we arent in there etc.
Thanks,
Julie
I'm new here, and its a long story, but I will try to shorten it.
We had a male cat (Lando) from Oct-Jan, he sadly had a serious tail pull injury some how when out, and after 5 days in hospital, tail amputation, and was double incontinent post injury, we had to make the very hard decision to say goodbye. I had learned to manually express his bladder, but his pain was too great and there was talk of using fentanyl patches, which I was scared of having children in the house
We missed having a cat around the house, so we then rehomed a rescue female cat (Willow) she's quite nervous, but has gotten better over the weeks, and is an acceptable level of calm, although pretty aloof and only accepts petting when she wants food. I can live with that.
Meanwhile, Lando's breeder told us he had another cat we could have, and she was half ragdoll, half BSH (same ragdoll dad as Lando). So... on the basis that we thought she might be a bit like Lando (dog cat) we rehomed Olivia. Well, she is scared of everything, hid for 10 days, only came out at night to eat and use the litter tray. She is in a room on her own as I wanted to introduce her to Willow with a cautious approach.
She will come out to me now, I'm spending lots of time in the room with my laptop working. We think shes on heat, shes almost lost her voice from meowing, she is incredibly skittish, wont go near my husband. We needed to get her vet checked, so we had the vet come here as there is no way i'd get her into a cat carrier. I can't pick her up at all. When the vet came here, she went mental, running around the room, climbing up the walls, crashed into the window, when the vet managed to get a hand on her she was attacked. I've never seen anything like it, until I looked on youtube!
In your experience, what am I dealing with here? The vet is talking about putting her on gabapentin for anxiety as she's so scared of everything. The vet even commented that 'I wouldnt blame you if you rehomed her' and 'shes a very tricky one'. My brain is going to explode because I don't know what to do for the best, if we are keeping her then we need to have her spayed, and introduce her to Willow and the rest of the house. But I didn't want her to meet Willow until she was vet checked.... I know shes had no vaccines and has been an indoor cat, but I'm still nervous. But as the vet can't even get a hand on her, what should I do.
If anyone has any suggestions I'd be grateful.
We have Feliway plug-ins, radio on in the room, webcam in there too so we could see what she was doing when we arent in there etc.
Thanks,
Julie