My cat has gone off the deep end!

[bikerz]

Sara, your cat looks so much like one of my cats, and she behaves the same way sometimes, but just because she wants to, not because she's been left alone. Honestly, they could be twins separated at birth!

[winddance]

Oh yes. I know that look well. I have one cat that was so clingy that I got her a cat (dragging her across the carpet while she clung to my pant leg was the last straw.)

I'm in and out of town these days, so I had to come up with something. I play with my cats when I get home. We run around, I pet them, I dangle their jingly toy while they flip themselves all over the place...and then...they fall asleep in the middle of the floor. I go to bed. Sometimes they try for a bit of a reprise at odd hours of the morning and end up playing Thunder Chase/Freight Train/Feline Bowling, but for the most part this works well.



My limit for leaving the cats alone is 4 days. At 4 days, I usually come home to find that they've climbed up the refridgerator and knocked down anything that's on top of it. I am not sure what they would do after 5 days, much less 6. I do not wish to find out, however, so 4 days it is.

[mimitabby]

I never leave my cats unattended for more than 24-36 hours. after that, I have someone stop in; longer than a few days; i hire a petsitter. it is extremely traumatic for some pets to be left without you. They have a routine, they are comfortable with it. Since you can't really explain to them when you'll be back; imagine YOU being left somewhere for 6 days without anyone telling YOU when they'd be back with food; water, whatever. Even if you had enough.... How would you know without being told that you weren't going to run out, that you weren't abandoned?

[mimitabby]

ps is she in heat?