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?
Rosie has been with us only 4 months now, and she is trying real hard to get us to yell at her, apparently her previous owner must have. Well, she has the wrong audience here as we just laugh :))
Barney 2.0 and I are off on another kitty transport tomorrow. It's a win-win: I get to visit my favorite part of the state (and weather should be gorgeous), and the cats get taken to a shelter that will give them a 2nd chance to find a good home. (Our shelter is too full and can't keep them, and they don't want to euthanize them just because there's no space.)
She was very skittish at first and seemed not to know us but maybe it was becaause it was a house she had never been in before. But she was soon off exploring and ended up on DH's bed.
It could be that he is skittish is because you probably are on different medicine since you have been sick, and he isn't sure if you are really you as you smell different to him.
It's strange how animals are like that, you'd think they would recognize you by sight, and not to have to also relies on smell and sound. It's like when you have a cold and your voice is raspy, the cats will look at you wondering what did you do with their owner, you sure look like the owner but don't sound or smell like the owner.
I know I can't be in the same room when basketball is on due to that sneaker noise, and the flashing light which comes from the advertisements flashing up high around the arena that flashes down onto the floor.
Guest, that's really odd - must be some sort of trigger for the poor dog! Mine hasn't had any more episodes - at first I wondered if it might be related to his flea treatment medicine, but he had one episode a week before I gave it to him, and one after - so I can't say that's the cause, either. He has a vet appointment next week just to follow up and see if any further testing is needed, but I suspect they're going to tell me there's not much that can be done unless I want to medicate him - and if he's having them so infrequently, and they're not harming him, I can't really justify that. (Not financially, but out of concern for the cure being worse than the disease type of thing - you know?) He's with me almost all of the time, so the chances of him having a seizure while I'm not here are relatively slim.
He's going on the transport trip with me this weekend - his first trip to a big lake. We'll see how he does with that. I suspect there will be much digging in the sand.
Hope this one goes a little better than the last one and no one gets car sick or has nervous diarrhea!
Send - that's so lovely about the dog helping you get through all that! Also it gives me hope that little Bruce pestering his elder sister Carmella to play all the time will keep her thriving! She is 13 and hated this little intrusion at first! But I do see her perked up a bit, finally....
FF - I love it when cats do the running sideways thing! It's hilarious. Did her tail fluff all up too?
Barb - realized I missed part of your last post....I haven't asked the vet about Bruce possibly being MC or part MC. Last time Bruce saw the vet, it was when he had peritonitis in January (5 months old), and all I wanted to know was that he would be ok and could come home! And before that he was just too little to know anything about him. Heck, when I got him, I couldn't even tell how long his hair was going to be!
Well, I think I may have broken Bruce of the biting thing, finally!! Please don't be grossed out....out of desperation, I started biting him on the scruff of the neck! Like his mama would do. Not hard or anything - I would just hold him in my arms and hold the scruff of his neck between my teeth until he stopped. I usually had to do it 2 or 3 times in one session, but he figured out what I was saying really quickly! (Fortunately for ME, he doesn't shed very much hair. Blech!)
Now I just have to do it with my hand, and he gets the message and stops. No, I don't pick him up by the scruff - I think that's dangerous and people shouldn't do it. I hold him in my other arm at the same time. He knows exactly what I mean by it, and he's almost completely stopped the biting behaviour now. (Occasionally, I still have to use my teeth before he remembers.) And the funny thing is.....I tried doing it before with just my hand but it didn't work. It's like he needed me to do it like a mama cat would before he understood. Plus I never did it with my teeth before because I didn't want to make him afraid of me, or to become distant from me. But he is even MORE sweet and loving than ever! It's like I finally learned how to speak his language and he's all in. Lol!
I couldn't be happier....I've got my sweet little boy kitten back! Let's hope this lasts and keeps working, because I was totally out of ideas otherwise.....
He seems fine today - we had a nice walk, met a couple of neighborhood dogs and even took a ride, so he's snoozing now in his favorite sun spot.