Sendhelp Posted March 2017
Caregiver's cats behaving badly.
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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?
I took her to my vet had her tested for FeLV/fiv which is the equivalent to human AIDS/HIV but with cats. She was negative. I had her first vaccine and deworming. I surrendered her to the shelter on august 24 th.
while I missed her knowing she would get a good home, I found out that my grandson who has mild autism was crying himself to sleep after I surrendered her. Yes I’m a bleeding heart. I adopted her back, lol! So much money but it broke my heart E was not sleeping well. I now have 4 cats. I am the crazy cat lady. My grands named her Midnight, she is about 4 months old. She is spayed, all legs and ears and she is black.
she is a relaxed kitten, plays but is accepting to everyone including children. My other cats are accepting her and she copies herself after hocus and Pokus that I adopted two years ago.
I hope everyone is well.
I am sleeping in the spare room so have lots of empty dresser drawers. I leave one partially open so Rocky can get in it and have put a few of her things there. She goes in it at bedtime for a while. The other day I looked and she had put one of toys in the drawer. So cute.
How is your pet doing?
Does anyone need some love and support from other caregivers for their pet(s)?
Mosquitos are waking up my bird in the middle of the night. He flies to the sides of his cage. He has been afraid, as evidenced by "fear pooping", copious amounts of water, and frequent. I am working on it.
I worry excessively about him, according to my DH but he is my baby.
Oh, at 15 years old, Henrick is in his mid-70's in human years. I wonder if cats lose their sense of taste like we do when we get older?
Anyhow, I was able to get him a Vet appointment for today, as this sneezing has been going into its second day. He's an indoor cat, but likes to mouse around in the garage, his man cave.
I always dread trying to put a cat in a carrier. Never know what their mood is and they can sense I am nervous about something.
ff- good luck. I know my best shot with Rocky is surprise - just pick her up and pop her in the carrier before she can protest too much. She, more than any other cat I have had, doesn't like to be picked up. I hope your kitty's sneezing is not something serious.
Rocky has been catching mice and birds -and eating them - yet when I give her cooked chicken I have to cut it up in very small pieces for her. I used to make a mash of her wet food, boiled sweet potato and extra water, which Pumpkin loved to slurp up, but Rocky always waited till it dried out before she ate it. So I gave up and just gave her a bit of wet food along with the dry. I tried the sweet potato again - just put a chunk on her plate with the pate, and to my surprise she ate the lot, so I guess I will keep doing that.
Henrick is mostly pretty good. He has his off days and sleeps a lot more but
otherwise all things considered he's not bad. I've managed to get him to eat the renal dry food but gave up on the wet kidney diet. We tried at least four different kinds of that and he wasn't having it.
Frequentflyer, we took our Henrick in a few weeks ago cause he had been sneezing also. Our vet did a lung x-ray cause when he listened to Hen's chest he could hear congestion. There was a sign of infection on the x-ray so we put him on a 7 day course of antibiotics which he was none to happy about. It seemed to help but I've noticed him sneezing a bit again this last week. We had very bad air quality here for a few days but it's better now so I'm hoping that's all it was and he'll stop sneezing now.
Jesse was such a good boy. The Tech held him close to her while the Vet checked him over head to toe. We were stunned how he cooperated and allowed someone else to hug him. Did he sneeze while there? Of course not. It's like taking a car to the shop for a rattle, and the rattle stops once you get to the shop.
The Vet didn't hear any congestion so she believes it is an airborne allergy. We have been experimenting with different cat litters trying to find one both the cats like and I liked. So maybe that is causing the sneezing. So we changed all the boxes with the old standby brand.
... Then Raziel drops his skinny black butt on the cocktail table and just raises her blood pressure by looking her in the eye and knocking all the coasters down.
Thankfully mom is also a cat person
So loving and exasperating to read of our kitties being part of the care of our frail, dying loved ones.
I truly believe our cat was trying to help, in a cat-like way.
caregiver topic: I bought a dog to be my companion and stress reliever while I care for my husband. This the second time I have gotten a dog for me and the dog ends up stealing my husband! My husband a dog’s best friend. Lol
I remember one female cat disliked me she wouldn't even let me pet her. But she was all over sig-other purring up a storm. I should have known when at the Shelter she hissed at me. My male cats were "mama's boys".
yes, both dogs were/are female. I take it in good humor and tease hubby about it. The last female bonding with hubby is a good thing for him. With all that he has lost due to stroke I can imagine the female affection towards him makes him feel that he still has something. When the female was still a puppy she would get so agitated/worked up out shopping I would fashion a sling/pouch out of a large scarf around hubby and put her in it and two seconds later she out cold sleeping. ❤️
The male has bonded to me. I belong to him. 💕
Can anyone share how old their cat has lived?
I have seen aged cats up to 18, and 20 years old.
They are precious, even at that age.
Sig-other had an indoor-outdoor cat when he was growing up that lived to be 22 years old. Never ate cat food, learned to live on Italian food and left over fish on Fridays :)
It did not occur to me that yes, I knew they were brothers. That means littermates. My mind did not work to put 2 and 2 together that they have the same birthday.
Making the birthday bittersweet when one has passed.
Sorry Gershun.
This may apply to Rocky and Pumpkin when they have a birthday.
Sorry Golden.
And to others who will be missing their cat on a littermates birthday.
Grief can be confusing.
That was a perfect explanation Golden!
i totally empathize with the pain you feel losing a beloved cat. Every cat we’ve had( last count 8) has held a special place in my heart. We have 3 at the moment. But if I ever had any favourites, they would have to be my Seamus and Tricky. Both boys, both died tragically. Seamus (7yo)was shot by a mongrel neighbor with an air gun and the pellet lodged in his kidneys.
Tricky was our little 5 month old Kitten who was hit by a car and killed instantly when some moron left our front door open and he got out. After that, it was a while before I got another kitten. Now we have our beautiful babies in huge safe back yard enclosures during the day but bring them in at night.
We only had one kitty who lived to be 18. Sweet little Patches died of kidney problems in my Mum’s arms. I had her since I was the seventh grade. All our other babies died at various ages. We now have a boy and girl cat both 5 yo and another girl cat 10. My hubby gave me Sockie ten years ago. Our other cats are Chickapooh and Daisy.