cats and anxiety

Some of you already know this part. I have a 10+ years old female
(Kiki). About two years ago, I took an ailing young male off of the
street (Kitty). At first, Kiki attacked him frequently. Kiki has
learned to ignore him. Unfortunately, Kiki has been unable to cope
with his presence, perhaps partly because she is getting old. She
began throwing up every day. She also became aloof, she would
retreat to a loft up near the ceiling. Even when she would lie
between my chest and left arm (like she used to do frequently) while
I use the computer lying down, as she began to fall asleep she had
occasional violent spasms, her head would jerk as if waking from a
nightmare.

Not knowing the problem was anxiety, I had tried gradually switching
to different foods over many months. Something had to be done. I
tried separating Kitty from Kiki. The separation appeared to work
the first time for about one week. Then they weren't separated for a
while and Kiki started showing the same symptoms again. So again I
separated them for probably at least 12 hours every day. That has
been the case for over one month and Kiki is doing marvelously. I
had no idea Kitty would cause Kiki so much anxiety, but I'm relieved
to have found a workaround. The current situation is much better
than watching Kiki fall apart.

By the way. Kitty looks healthy and happy. I stopped trying to use
flea collars (they caused skin irritations and maybe caused Kiki a
wheezing lung problem) and bought a 4 month supply of Advantage. The
first application was a learning experience.

Have fun.

lastcatstanding wrote

On Sun, 21 May 2006 06:43:30 GMT, John Doe
wrote:

John Doe aka Troll


See also:


Dip****
sucker
asswipe

.... a permanent record of american asshole behavior is growing on the
internet

"geoffreygallo yahoo.com" geoffreygallo yahoo.com wrote:


... a permanent record of american asshole behavior is growing on
the internet

If it weren't for Americans, you wouldn't be using a free American
USENET provider, you'd still be using snail mail, and you wouldn't
be heard by anyone except maybe your mother.











Path: newsdbm05.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01b.news.prodigy .com!prodigy.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodig y.net!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews. com!postnews.google.com!y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.c om!not-for-mail
From: "geoffreygallo yahoo.com" geoffreygallo yahoo.com
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.health+behav
Subject: cats and anxiety
Date: 22 May 2006 12:13:58 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Lines: 18
Message-ID: 1148325238.819708.146900 y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com
References: Xns97CA118CF93DE0123456789 207.115.17.102
NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.232.101.114
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1148325245 28430 127.0.0.1 (22 May 2006 19:14:05 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 19:14:05 +0000 (UTC)
In-Reply-To: Xns97CA118CF93DE0123456789 207.115.17.102
User-Agent: G2/0.2
X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)
Complaints-To: groups-abuse google.com
Injection-Info: y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=71.232.101.114; posting-account=DHxODw0AAACjw7LJGuBNQIvQwOWVFl7g
Xref: prodigy.net rec.pets.cats.health+behav:432840