I hope things go well.
I had one. Worked great until it died. wasn’t as well built as I’d liked. I had 2 cats and it lasted a couple of years. The only downside is the noise. That and both cats would run up to it every time it ran a cycle and watch it like it was something completely new to them. Or they didn’t want their days work to go to waste. Not sure.
The extra hours could easily make the cat anxious. Every year I’d go on vacation and the 1st cat figured it out quickly and would be upset when I packed. When I came back she was really pissed off at me. She would growl at me and give me the cold shoulder until I begged her for forgiveness. Then she’d crawl in my lap and continue to growl at me while I petted her. There was no question she was unhappy and it had to do with my absence. it could be fear of abandonment/starvation or loss of attention. Don’t know.
If you think about it, pets may not have the range of emotion as humans but what they experience is going to be every bit as intense as what we experience. Let me tell you what kind of stress I’ve gone through with the loss of a job. Stress needle bent around back to zero.
I’m sorry to hear this. Hope she’s feeling a little better this evening.
Hmm. Sounds like it could be the stress/emotional stuff and not the other cat.
- Ask the vet about kitty Xanax. Sounds weird but maybe there’s something.
- Shut Todd in the garage when you aren’t around so he’s not unsupervised without a litterbox. Not great, I know, but if you can’t put a litterbox in a bathroom or laundry room in the house, and you can’t trust him not to pee in the house, then I think you’ve got limited choices.
- Wait it out. He may settle down, when you all settle down. This summer won’t last forever. STEM class will end. Your grief will lessen. The arguing will die down. Todd should simmer down when you do.
- Consider re-homing him. He sounds like a complete love. Call a rescue group though and not the pound. Explain the increased work hours/death in the family situation and see if they can help place him. It’s kitten season, so it may take a while, but I think that’s your best bet unless you know someone personally already.
She’s gone. Right now, it is not hurting so much, but in a day or two, I will probably be a wreck.
She had to share the rather small house with another cat on two occasions. The one developed into a keep-them-apart situation. The other was here longer – my late father’s cat – but she was pretty old and shaky, so the two of them just worked around each other fairly easily.
I’m so sorry.
From the sounds of it, your cat is probably dealing with his own stresses and anxiety from the changes in the household. With everything that you’re dealing with, he feels a lot of what you’re feeling but doesn’t know how to handle it. It’s quite common that cats will spray in the house and change their behaviors because of such dramatic changes in “their” lives, so to speak.
He might just need some extra attention, his own litter box in a his own area. Due to the changes, you might have to actually change the litter box, the litter and location completely. He might be associating the litter and its contents to the changes that have been happening and is reminded of it.
There are some herbal remedies that you can try putting into the litter, that might attract him to it and put him at ease too.
http://canfemalecatsspray.com might have some more useful information for you
But, have you taught them how to read? Could they be dyslexic? Only speak Spanish?..
Here is the solution to your problem. Your welcome.
In my experience, all cats die. Like everything else alive.
Sorry you had to learn about it this way.
W T F?
Can you imagine catching cats and actually doing that? My cats would have my intestines for garters. 