I posted last week about cat-sitting for my friend's DD.
Well, the cat arrived about 3.00pm on Saturday and since then has acted in ways that I was not warned about. Soon after his owners left he managed to get himself stuck behind a chest of drawers inside a fitted wardrobe unit - crawled in and then could not turn to get out due to where the water stopcocks are located. Fortunately the owners had not gone too far away so they came back and spent an hour getting him back out.
About 3.00am the fun starts. He comes out and starts yowling, mainly sitting in front of the place he got stuck. At breakfast time he yowls, presumably for food/water but when I put fresh and he's put in front of them he looks at the bowls like he's got no idea what they are, then runs away.
He has found several places to hide (spent 8 hours in a corner staring at a wall yesterday) and has not eaten or drunk any water SINCE BEFORE HE ARRIVED ON SATURDAY. I am seriously worried.
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Mandy2003 · 26/12/2011 12:53
I had a cat that used to break into my bedroom and shit on my pillow to indicate his displeasure. It generally happened if I had been away overnight. I'd come back to a cat that refused to acknowledge me, and a big shit on my pillow.
ime, there's bog all you can do except let them get on with sulking (and in my case get a latch on the top of the bedroom door 
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Put some food and water in little bowls and put them in the hidey places he has found. If he feels safer in those little spaces, he'll be more likely to have something to drink in there at least.
I realise it's too late now, but tbh, the cat would probably have been happier left in his own home, with you going in every day to feed him and give him fresh water.
Indeed, Hecate - see my first thread about 5 down from this one for my views! I do feel a bit better after hearing your experience though, thanks 
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Thank you Fluffball 
There is an update - I bought a sachet of Felix chunks in jelly (what I'm sure his owners would call common people's catfood!) and he loved it - really curious and then keen to eat. Only had half of the half sachet I gave him last night but it's a start 
Have put a bowl of water where he lurks behind the TV and he has drunk from it. The science diet and the fancy organic treat food is being ignored still!
He has used his litter tray from the word go (luckily!) - always about 9pm so that's when I have offered him food, and at 9am. I was told that anything other than the "special" foods would cause diarrhoea but so far so good - the droppings are still solid. Very dry in fact - probably bunged up from years of dry food!
Thanks to everyone for your help, will keep updating.
Thanks! Not too bad now but he does not come out a lot. Still trying to get him to eat the "proper" food he was supplied with but no luck. I put Felix on one half of a plate and the fancy organic stuff on the other half - he eats down to the line of Felix chunks that's touching the organic and no further!! What do you make of that? 
I think there's a possibility he may have eaten 3 science diet biscuits today - yippee! He's had one small Felix sachet every 24 hours since Monday, that's probably not enough but at least it's something. Also, he only seems to drink once a day for about 1 minute but I can't tell if he's urinating because of the special scientific cat litter he arrived with.
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