Does your Cat (or any pet) misbehave since caregiving your loved one?
Have you been required to take care of your loved one's pet after they have passed? Does your pet have cute antics that entertain your loved one?
And finally, has the cat or dog transferred their loyalty to your Mother?
He pooped on his chair today. It's his favorite chair that he loves to sleep on, and he pooped all over it. Not sick tummy poop, just regular. He is definitely incontinent at times then, but not always as he's still using litter box mostly, and likely it's just do to age. Otherwise he seems fine enough. I don't see his symptoms progressing and he is still enjoying his life.
Just wish I knew what to do but I don't want to get caught up in taking an old cat to the vet and treating him for symptoms that are due to him being old. So I guess for now I'll keep muttering at him when he poops in odd places.
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And I'll be doing well enough to drag myself to some doctor's appointments, and I have one tomorrow, because I'm hitting a flare up of major fatigue issues. I'm not going to do anything else about Old Man Cat's issues right now unless they progress.
Being good can even get one in trouble.
But Tweety bird is so very happy these days. Very entertaining.
Got to hurry now, picking up dH off work now, dinner will be late, after 10mp.m.
I don't think of myself as a rebel, as I am trying to be more like Gershun.....I call it defiant. It is a good thing needed when one has to stand up for oneself.
However, I will drive to wherever to visit a friend, but not fly.
Squirrels can fly, birds can fly, I cannot. duh.
Mind you, my cats used to swipe at the birds on the balcony all the time so I understand how it got there. But in your case that is odd.
Woke up this AM; it looked like a dead bird. Asked DH to check it out. He initially said "oh, that's a cat toy, or wait......it's a dead bird". (very small, clearly a hatchling).
So, we live on the second floor; all our windows are closed and our ACs are sealed. My three cats don't look guilty, nor were they playing with....the body.
Any ideas?
I need to take 18 yo Divo for senior wellness exam, too... but I'm busy. It will happen eventually, but also he seems mostly fine now that I've learned his quirks. Sometimes I think he's showing his age, then he bounces back. He's the fussy, demanding one of the two I adopted last summer, though.
Charlie has become a grumpy old man, very demanding, wants things NOW, not happy if the room is cold, want cat soup instead of canned food, and will only stay outside 2 minutes instead of his usual half hour.
Now, if only I could get his housemate, Rosie, to stop sticking her feet in Charlies water bowl... she does this to get cat litter off her feet !! Of course, she won't do this in her water bowl.
I am sure that I saw Ratatouille fly from the tree to the block wall when I was feeding it. The news reported the woman said she will sue, and that she is going to own a large part of the airline.
I swear, it was not me on the plane. Haven't seen Ratatouille all summer once it got hot. Wishing that I had thought of running away with my pet squirrel....
Wonder if we could train the cat to bring over $$$. Hehe.
Then my husband saw our feral cat Amber dragging another towel to our yard and playing with it.
So all this time, she was bringing us gifts.... Hahaha.
The ringworm spot was never officially Dx'd but I can't imagine what else it is and I started treatment with anti fungal cream. It's looking much better. Old Man Cat is still getting sick every other day, despite my taking out all the fish I could see in their food. He's doing better than before I took out all the things that included fish, or fish meal, but he still has mystery sick moments. :-(
I think they've accepted me fully as Fearless Cat Leader Mom, since they didn't mind being in a new place as long as I was here to reassure them. :-) They're the best. We're having the laziest Sunday right meow. I wish all of you the same with your pets.
Thank You.
No more moaning at night. He still seems a little sad but nothing like the other night.
I just have to make sure I spend more time with him since he has no doggie buddies.
Not real sure I am up for adopting him a pal. But if I was it would definitely be an older dog.
I have been through the mourning of numerous cats. Always had at least 2 to 4 cats at any given time. This last time, Charlie's sister, 17 year old cat [litter mate] was into her final week, he was beside himself as he and Sara were constantly together for those 17 years. Afterwards he didn't want to eat, play... just sleep. He was now the lone cat in the house.
We decided to go to the local animal shelter and see if we could find him a new "elderly" companion. We adopted a 12 year old female cat, and he was calmer knowing there was another cat in the house, the two of them would stalk each other for play. I know we have extended Charlie's life plus giving an elderly cat a good home.
Do to our age [early 70's], we decided that "elderly" cats were the best route, as we cannot see ourselves changing cat litter at 85 or 90 years old !!
I read online and as usual contradicting articles. One says carry on as usual not to encourage behaviors. The other more compassionate approach.
I found a ball and he got all excited, tossed it in the yard and he just looked at me. He just wanted a pet.
I got everything out for a bath. He was all excited until he realized the Bath was for him and he took off. I decided to wait until the weekend on the Bath.
Just lots of pets, cuddles, and go from there.
Its good to know others have experienced this mourning phenomenon. We like to think of our pets as almost human or have human feelings or something similar. I am now convinced they do.
I can give you two examples, if not quite the same.
Lab collie cross who had never howled in her life (she was about five when this happened) the day after my father passed away sat in the car outside my parents' house and howled her head off.
Head hen, DeeDee, in good health herself, saw me returning home from the vet with her deceased second-in-command, Dolly, in the late afternoon; went straight to her nest box, and was dead when I went to tuck the ladies in at sunset. I can only think that she knew her reign was over and took the noble way out.
Most of my late Staffy's dog friends have seemed to extend some sort of sympathy to me when I meet them out-and-about.
I should ask your vet (if your vet is trustworthy and not the type to think "ker-chingg!") about extra support suggestions and, as you say, administer love and cuddles and normality. Not sure whether it would be better to keep familiar toys, blankets, etc. around for their smell or remove them? - whichever seems more comforting, I suppose.
Love and cuddles to you too 💔
Our 15 yrold Chocolate Lab passed away last summer. Our 12 yr old Yellow Lab passed away yesterday. That leaves us with a 10 yr old Black Lab.
Last night at straight up 11pm I heard what sounded like a human moaning outside my bedroom window. Went out to find the Lab sprawled out on porch head down moaning. At first I thought he was dying but no he popped up and was fine.
I sat and petted him and he tried to get in my lap!
I guess I have a pet in mourning on my hands. I have never experienced pet mourning.
I guess this call for lots of one on one time and TLC.
Any experiences with pet mourning the death of another family pet? I thought this only happened in the movies. Wrong again...
Also, it says that the infection will usually resolve itself, even with no treatment, in 2-4 months time. But I'll get some anti fungal cream and put it on the spot.
It's a great relief to know it's not a parasite. Either way, he's got to get into the vet soonish so I can get him checked out.
Glad to see you are back.
Ali,
Yes, you can get ringworm from cats. Ringworm is a fungus that lives in soil. Hopefully your cat has some other mysterious cat skin condition.
Yes, Divo needs to be Bisselled and then some...
been looking for you
do you wanna kitty?