Karen wrote:
I have NO idea what happened between noon and 6 pm today, but Pearl is
afraid of dishes! I went to feed her as usual and she was ultra
cautious about approaching her dish and she finally got her nose to
the food and then jumped back and wouldn't eat. Now, she had a
furball come up a bit later so I thought "OK, an unusual reaction to
wanting to hork up a hairball but this must be the problem," She did
then later eat some dry out of the "fav" dish by the big cat TV, but
even that was kind of "peck peck" in nature. So I tried some chicken
juice and chicken in a smaller dish. No go. I put it on the bare
floor and she ate it. So I put some in a dish like the dry food is
in, and she moved away from it, just like when they are afraid of
something. So now later I open a can of fancy feast thinking "this
will do it". Nope. She wanted it. She meowed for it, but she acted
afraid of the dish. I tried a bigger one, a flatter one, a green one.
No go. Finally she was sitting on the carpeted base of the cat tree
in the kitchen and so I just stuck a lump of the food right on the
carpet. She was a tad cautious about going to eat it (like the food
might jump up and bite her) but once she took a bite, she at the
whole little pile down. Now, what happened to her????? Why is she
suddenly afraid of wet food on a dish? Did she accidentally bop
herself with one today or something? Pearl is a very outgoing cat and
not very skittish. I just cannot figure it out. It is just the most
bizzare thing. I really really hope she gets over this.

The only thing I can think of, maybe she was stung or bitten by an
insect hiding in her dish. Snoopy is very afraid of all flying insects
so I suspect she must have been stung sometime.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera)
A house is not a home, without a cat.