My daughters cat came out of the cats home yesterday (had to spend 5 weeks there, due to a house move and waiting in the chain). Cat came home, sat on the stairs for 4 hours, giving everyone dirty looks (use to love me but hissed at me). Refused food and looked generally peed off. Has anyone experienced this with a cat?
2006-10-09 00:02:44 · 19 answers · asked by Annie M 6 in Pets ➔ Cats
That is so funny...yes, he was really peed off at you and everyone else!! Had my furbaby neutered and the first thing he did when he saw me was bite my hand. Kind of a how do like that?? I think because cats are generally so independent they "act aloof" to show us they really are in charge. He should be back to his sweet self real soon.
2006-10-09 00:14:39 · answer #1 · answered by AMDGamma 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
oooh you are technically in the 'dog' house... lol. Cats are creatures of habit and dont like being taken away from their surroundings, especially if it means going to a new place afterwards.
I appreciate that from your point of view you had no alternative (in fact, I myself am potentially facing this problem in the next few weeks as dont think my house will complete in time), but i know full well I will be letting myself in for a shed load of tantrums and sulks from my cats if I put them in a cattery. In addition, mine have never been in one!
I would suggest you try spending some more time with your cat - just stroking him and tempting him with some favourite food. Also worth showing him something which has a smell he is used to - i.e. an old blanket he used to sleep on or something from the old house, so he can get his bearings. He is probably a little stressed as the new place has different smells etc. He will come around, just takes time. Although I wouldnt let him out until he is back to his normal self.
2006-10-09 10:58:35 · answer #2 · answered by NikkiJane 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My cat always reacts like this when he comes home from the cattery and he is coming back to the same place so if the cat has been in a cattery for 5 weeks and is then taken to a new place he will be very unsettled.
Have you got a bed or blanket from his old home? This will have his smell on it.
Give him time, leave food and water in a quiet corner, he will eat when hungry.
Try and keep him in for a few days so he can pick up the new smell of the house and find his way home
2006-10-09 00:17:48 · answer #3 · answered by lynneroberts23 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cats as we all know are fickle creatures....
5 weeks is a long time for humans but for cats it is probably an eternity for them.......
They are animals that like comfort and luxury.....as shown by them being prepared to leave one house/owner and go to another if the food or home comforts are more appealing there. [Dogs would never do the same thing].
I think you need to coax it back into being a loved animal [which I am sure it is] - and give it time. U wouldn't like having been put in a home for 5 weeks and it certainly didn't clearly......and when it comes out of the home it is in an alien environment probably with chaos re: the new move.
Good luck with getting a loving cat back.......
2006-10-09 00:20:48 · answer #4 · answered by Robbo31 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but only for a day or two after it had been in a cattery for a week or so. It's as if your cat is cold shouldering you for what it saw as your abandoning it (after all, 5 weeks is a long time to have been left in an unfamiliar, constricted place like a cattery). The only thing you can do is to show the cat that you are still its friend, cosset it as much as you can, give it treats, play with it (if it'll let you!), and generally show that you are so sorry to have upset it... I'm sure it will eventually go back to being your pal. Good luck, anyway!
2006-10-09 00:16:22 · answer #5 · answered by avian 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would say the cats in a new environment. Cats are very territorial. If you have ever noticed, cats spray, to mark there territory. Once a feline is neutered or spayed, they no longer can spray.
Id let the cat get use to his or hers new environment, and I almost can gaurantee he or she will return to her oldself. Also if she was separated from her owner for over a month, you dont know the stress she went through, without her usual owner, the usual smell of her own territory. Now shes back with her owner, yet not back on her own territory. If other cats have marked that territory in the past, she still may feel stressed. Allow her time to realize shes on her own new territory- this house is her house. The smell from the furniture and accessories from the old home,will help her get use to the new home. Dont force or bring in new animals til she gets use to it. Ive dealt with the same with my own animals, place a shirt that her owner has worn- where she sleeps. Let her get comfortable on her own, dont force her affection, but pat her when you can just letting her know your still there when she wants your attention.
2006-10-09 00:18:57 · answer #6 · answered by ♥~Synful~Allure~♥ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say the cat is very stressed. Consider: he had to be moved form a known environement (your former home) to be placed in a totally unfamiliar place full of other animals (the cattery or cat boarding place). This alone is very upsetting to a cat. Then, when he is just getting the hang and feel of that place, he is taken out again and placed in another unfamiliar place (your new house). His hissing at you is mis-directed anger at the whole upsetting business. Give him time and lots of peace and quiet. He'll come around. They always do.
Good luck.
2006-10-09 00:15:41 · answer #7 · answered by Phoebhart 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh yes, there's no doubt that cats are the experts when it comes to sulking!
Cat's get very attached to their homes, far more so than dogs. I'm afraid your daughters cat has had a double whammy! It spends 5 weeks in a cattery, comes out and finds all its favourite places have disappeared. It's sulking BIG TIME, but given time to get used to its new environment he (or she) will settle down again quite happily.
2006-10-10 02:07:11 · answer #8 · answered by ChiangMai 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poor pusscat! I would b miffed too! cat home is no 5* hotel for cats! My cat was the same after short break away and after moving house!
The old house was its kingdom it was put in a jail (as opposed to your lovely home) for reason unknown 2 catty then put back wi family that did this and does not recognise surroundings!
It'll take time 4 catty to settle but wi lots of TLC and reassuring it b patient wi puss! things should b betta soon.
2006-10-09 02:06:10 · answer #9 · answered by teazyweazy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When we moved our cats, they gave us the "cold shoulder" for almost two weeks. They went under the house as soon as we tried to get too close the them. Every time I tried to talk to them they would turn their backs to me. As if to say..."I'm not speaking to you, I'm mad." Then slowly, they both came around more and more as they got used to the new property and house. I think they were upset by the move and were showing, in their way, just how upset they were. Cats and dogs feel emotions just like we do. Some more so than others.
Give the cat some time and just talk lovingly to it as I'm sure you already do, he/she will eventually come around. As for food, as soon as the animal is hungry enough it will eat. Ours loved treats and as soon as I shook the treat box they came running.
If it goes beyond a week though, and is not going outside to catch food, then take it to a vet. My cats took a full week before they ate at the door again, but they were outside cats and were able to catch their food, so I didn't worry about them. Just do not let the "not eating" persist too long. Good luck!
2006-10-09 00:27:15 · answer #10 · answered by need to know 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋