Slightly flippant title but I need some serious help with my cat.
Got her as a kitten in Jan 2021. Perfect kitten. Well tempered, didn’t destroy anything, great with my then 3yo son. Met my partner soon after getting her and when he started visiting my place, while not the biggest cat fan, they got on well enough. She would go outside but never strayed too far and always came back home when I’d call for her.
Fast forward to end of 2022 and I moved house. My partner lives with me now. She has had a complete personality transplant. Things she now does:
- she will cry at the backdoor to be let outside and then when you try to let her out, she attacks you
- if you cross a doorway or small passage and she’s there, she will attack you
- she will rub up against you (mostly in the kitchen which is the access to the garden) and then attack you
- she wants to sleep with me at night and has become very cuddly (spooning me)
- she now has to have an indoor litter box because if she does venture outside, it’s for 5 minutes before she’s back inside. she is never forced outside but always cried to go out and if the door is open will go outside
- any renovation, DIY, reorganising sends her into aggressive turmoil and she will hiss and attack constantly for days
- she throws up about once a week
- she won’t sleep in any of her cat beds and instead only sleeps on soft furniture
- anytime the doorbell goes, she runs and hides
She’s never attacked my son, thank god, and she’s still playful; but for me and my partner, we are constantly walking on eggshells around her, on edge for when she might attack. He gets it far more regularly than I do. He can’t walk past her at all without her hissing. Vet said physically everything is ok, so I’m at a complete loss!
Help me fix my broken cat!