Bogbastard is usually so laid back and good natured it's untrue - happy for kids to carry him around and hug him, you can do a lot of things where another cat would have you counting your fingers (pills, flea treatment, washing floofy backside etc).
But last couple of days he's been unusually grumpy. Has hissed at the kids a few times and when I went to try and move him from under DDs high sleeper he pulled a real basso profundo growl on me.
Still Pollyanna in comparison to certified psychopaths of cats I have known in my time, but nevertheless it's unlike him.
He has had rather soft/ squidgy stools on and off since before Xmas and his third eyelids were intermittently across a few weeks back. Vet couldn't find anything wrong and eyelids fine now.
He also has a lot of mats in his incredibly floofy coat so I've been trying to overcome his hatred of being brushed. Could mats be sore and/or he thinks we are about to brush him whenever we approach?
Would you risk pissing him off even more by a further trip to the vets? Or do we just pander to his every whim for a bit and see if the sunny nature returns? Or assume that the disruption of Christmas and two adoring kids at home full time has put him out of sorts? Normally he laps up their attentions, otherwise I wouldn't allow them, but perhaps a cat can have too much of a good thing?
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Cat suddenly unusually grumpy, reasons?
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Bogburglar75 · 09/01/2017 22:05
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