posted 02-23-2004 02:10 PM         

They have only been at it for about a week and before that they got along fine. I don't know if it is relitive but Sarah who is an indoor cat (all of them are) got outside for about 5 minutes. When she came back in, the little kitty as well as the middle kitty all started beating each other up!

What should I do? Do you think any of them could be sick?

Sarah even hissed, spat and bit my husband who is her best friend when he tried to calm her down.

posted 02-23-2004 07:09 PM         

Sarah has been hiding in the back room (with the door open) since i made this post this morning. Everytime i go to the room to even sweet talk her into comming out she hisses at me. I hate to say it but I think i am afraid of my own kitty! She has really gotten that mean! Rubbing them with the same towel sounds like it may work, but i cant get near her.

I will go put a seperate food bowl in the room where she is and close the door so she isn't disturbed by the other kittys and maybe she will be more friendly in the morning. My only problem is i don't want to "punish" her.

I guess if she isn't back to normal by tomorrow i'll try to get her in the carrier to go to the vet. She's really gotten scary.

If she is sick, what could be wrong? She doesn't seem to be physically harmed.

posted 02-24-2004 08:04 PM         

When I got home from work, she was still on th bathroom counter. The door has been open, but she just doesn't want to come out. She seems deppressed. I have gone in the room and sat down, and she will sit on my lap for about 2 minutes and be petted before she starts to get cranky and jumps right back up on the counter again. I took her her own food and water bowl and set it on the counter and closed the door so she could get some privacy. That seemed to help a little bit.

So although she still won't come out of the bathroom, she is showing signs of improvement. She does still growl quietly when one of the other cats comes close to the door (or if i try to pet her too long).
She doesn't seem like she is going to attack like she did yesterday.

I think I'll wait one more day before i try the towel trick. Since she purred for me this afternoon, i think she might need a bit more attention. Hopefully she'll be back to normal soon.

posted 02-24-2004 10:33 PM         

There was a point where our little pixie was the crankiest thing in the world. She was irritable, and hissed a lot.

It turned out that she had a horrible toothache.... her baby tooth did not come out properly, it got lodged in the gum and there was abcess.

Hubby took a small cotton bud, eased it out, five minutes later she was a happy kitty again.

Try to see if there's something that's causing her pain. animals just don't get angry at things they love for no reason.

///ej