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I am worrying about my cat again [sad].

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TheOriginalFAB · 19/04/2011 12:27

She just took ages to get half up to then settle down and didn't seem to know what to do with her front right paw. Then after a minute she got down off the sofa and went out of the room.

She is 16. Her kidneys are failing, she has arthritis and has hypoestesias. She is on 4 tablets a day and special food. I am taking her for an extra check up this evening as she wasn't very well at all last week and had lost weight. She looks like she might have lost more Sad.

The vet said we are not at that point yet but part of me worries we are but he doesn't want to say as he knows how potty I am about her. She did play a bit yesterday though and is eating the new food we had to buy her after refusing to eat anything else.

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Jux · 12/12/2011 23:11

I have this vision of about 12 vet nurses trying to hold onto a cat receiving acupuncture, said cat emerges from howling, encrimsoned heap of humans virtually untouched, pins scattered everywhere, sits down nonchalantly and licks the blood off her claws.

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TheOriginalFAB · 13/12/2011 07:51

I don't think it would be fair to take her somewhere new to have needles stuck in her. More paper tearing as well.

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TheOriginalFAB · 13/12/2011 09:27

FABCat is in my bad books.

I was posting how she has torn up FABBoy's lines for his Nativity (lucky he knows them) when she decided to sit on my lap top. She deleted what I had typed and demanded lots of strokes. This she got and then I touched her side and she went to bit me, scraping my hand [cross]. I moved her on to the sofa and she stood there looking not quite right. Shocked I think. She has now settled down for a nap (just put the sound on the tv and made her jump). I wish I could work out what was going on with her.

The vet said to ignore any paper tearing up to Tuesday so on that basis if she does it after today the pain relief is not working Confused. This vet thinks she is doing it to play though Confused.

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Jux · 13/12/2011 14:40

Sorry, FAB, I wasn't advocating that you give FABcat acupuncture; I was visualising what a mad idea I thought it was, but I wasn't very clear about that.

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TheOriginalFAB · 13/12/2011 17:17

Oh, I know you weren't saying I should do it. I read it that you thought it was a daft idea Smile.

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Jux · 15/12/2011 10:30

Mind you, I used to think it was utterly mental to have Animal Psychotherapists and also to use homeopathy on animals (after all, homeopathy is all in the mind and the horse doesn't understand that this pill is supposed to make him better etc). Then I met a girl who owned a horse, she used Devil's Claw to ease his arthritis, and it worked.

(For a long time I didn't really believe in hypnotherapy either and then the director of a school for hypnotherapists gave me a place on a course and I learnt how to do it, and then saw it working and so on.)

There are more things in heaven and earth, than are dreamt of in my your philosophy... and all that.

Jux · 15/12/2011 10:31

I'm still not advocating acupuncture for FABcat, though Grin, I suspect it would be horribly stressful for her, at the least.

Jux · 15/12/2011 10:35

And now I'm picturing hypnotherapy for cats.....

[Jux adopt quiet, measured and soothing tone....] "... and now, FABcat, I want to talk to you about something important, important to you FABcat, to you and your own wellbeing...." , yeah, that would work.Hmm

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TheOriginalFAB · 15/12/2011 13:05

She is not a happy cat as I moved her so she roared at me Hmm.

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TheOriginalFAB · 16/12/2011 12:58

Naughty FABCat. She has just peed on the carpet and not a dribble either. She has access to outside though we now have snow so maybe it was that that has kept her in Hmm though why she couldn't go in her room with the wipeable floor I don't know. She was tearing up paper prior to the weeing so the pain relief is not working atm. If that is why she is doing it of course. We still don't know.

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Jux · 16/12/2011 18:50

Maybe her room with the wipeable floor is a bit colder while you've got v cold weather? Cheeky thing, she wants a heated bathroom! Get that underfloor heating installed at once Grin

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TheOriginalFAB · 16/12/2011 19:08

LOL.

She wasn't sorry she did it and her room is lovely and warm!!

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Jux · 18/12/2011 13:07

I have never come across a cat that is sorry for anything. NPD? They're the embodiment of it.

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TheOriginalFAB · 18/12/2011 17:19

And today she peed on the washing again.

Why? Why why why is she doing this???

The second vet will be wondering if she has an infection again.The snow has all gone so she can't use that excuse. I can't work the blinking cat out.

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Jux · 18/12/2011 19:41

Sometimes cats pee in order to mark their territory, so perhaps something to do with that?

Has either vet said anything about encroaching senility (not really as bad as it sounds); cats can forget some of the basic 'rules' as they get older.

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TheOriginalFAB · 18/12/2011 20:31

She knows she owns the world place. Why would she suddenly feel the need to mark her territory?

No one has mentioned encroaching senility. I usually get how lovely her coat is and how pretty she is Grin.

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Jux · 18/12/2011 22:15

I don't know; maybe she decided that today was too good a day to be sullied by washing. Maybe it was just that today she doesn't like the smell of the fabric conditioner. Maybe the wind was blowing in the wrong direction and there was a slight draught which made the washing smell of something cats find objectionable or brought in the smell of another cat which seemed to be coming from the washing pile.

Can you put up a pic? I'd love to see her.

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TheOriginalFAB · 19/12/2011 09:44

Nothing in your first paragraph could be a reason but hey, when has FABCat ever needed a reason for anything?

I will try and work out how to take a picture and then ask DS1 about loading it up as he is better on the laptop than me!

This morning I have come down and she has drunk loads of water again.

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FabCatsMum · 21/01/2012 12:49

I have just popped back to say FABCat is still with us Grin. She has had one suspected urinary infection and one definite and is now on monthly pain relief injections as her arthritis is bad and in at least 3 legs. Her back legs are the worst.

She has just peed in the lounge, again which is not pleasant and I really don't know why she is doing it. I have been offered to have her PTS but I said no way, not just because she is urinating where she shouldn't but the vet said some people do take that option.

She is maintaining her weight and eating well. The vet is surprised she is doing so well since she was diagnosed last April. We are taking it one appointment to the next atm. Our insurers have dumped us so we have to deal with that now as no one is going to insure a cat of her age with her issues.

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FabCatsMum · 24/01/2012 20:33

Hi Buggerlugs, I have deregged but thought it only polite to pop back and give an update after everyone has been so kind on this thread to me and concerned for FABCat. She is asleep next to me and really cute. She scared me yesterday though as she was so still in her bad and didn't move when I went in her room. I told her off for frightening meGrin.

FabCatsMum · 26/01/2012 11:54

I let FABCat stay asleep on the lounge this morning as she seemed to have behaved when I left her in yesterday. Not so today. She has done a wee on the carpet again. What am I going to do about this??

SparkyTGD · 26/01/2012 12:01

Can you have her sleep somewhere theres no carpet/easily cleaned overnight or if you're out? I realise you want to be really soft on her as she's poorly but just to make things easier.

My cat pees/poos/sick on kitchen/utility floor practically every day but we've restricted her to those areas where its easy to clean at night & if out, just made sure she has plenty places to sleep.

FabCatsMum · 26/01/2012 12:04

Oh yes, she will not be allowed to stay in the lounge when we are not there now. I am just worried why she is doing it.

SparkyTGD · 26/01/2012 12:24

Hmm, would just put it down to her getting old & being ill, TBH.

My old cat (pts just over a year ago, kidney failure, have posted befor as ImeM) drank loads of water as she got more poorly & started peeing in wrong place. She had never had any trouble before.

My other cat will pee/poo in wrong place at the drop of a hat, she is nervous cat, and now is nervous, old & poorly (she's about 16 too) and soiling has got worse so minimise damage by restricting where she is allowed.

When we're in we leave doors open so she can sit on couch beside us etc, she never does it when we're watching.