Could my cat be suffering from dementia? She is 17yrs old (I've had her since she was a kitten) and I don't know how I can help her, and I'm struggling to cope with her behaviour. It can't be nice for her but it's also quite hard-going for me. She seems so oddly behaved these days. Actually her odd-ness has been gradually getting worse over the last year and it's only now I've realised how bad it is. I suppose she should see a vet but my cat hates going to the vet, she's so old it feels mean making her go there. She's been healthy all her life and never needed any procedures or anything.
We don't have a cat flap (never had one) so the cat sits by the door waiting to go out...so I let her out, and she wants to come straight back in, then changes her mind and wants to go out again, in again, out again. She just doesn't settle down. Eventually she'll go upstairs to sleep on my bed but it's horrible seeing her getting so confused and not knowing what she wants, and I'm getting stressed when she's around, I find her behaviour makes me tense and it's awful but she makes me so on edge.
Another problem is her food - she seems hungry, but then doesn't eat the food, and sometimes it's like she forgets that she's already just eaten. She'll hang about for food when she's only just eaten. It's so frustrating, for her and for us.
Oh and she poohs all over the lawn now, which she never used to do. That could just be old-age though.
Does anyone have experience of cat dementia? I wonder if that's what this is. And is there any point taking her to the vet for this.
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My elderly cat is driving me insane. She wants to go out, she wants to come in,she wants to go out again. She forgets she's eaten, what's wrong with her?
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SylvaniansKeepGettingHoovered · 30/03/2015 16:35
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