Does your Cat (or any pet) misbehave since caregiving your loved one?
Have you been required to take care of your loved one's pet after they have passed? Does your pet have cute antics that entertain your loved one?
And finally, has the cat or dog transferred their loyalty to your Mother?
...Something like those lyrics.
I was just thinking of ABBA's Love me or leave me, make your choice but believe me that I love you, I do, I do, I do, I do, I do :)
Edit: no particular personal target for this romantic pop tune, just catchy stuff that comes up in my brain from time to time
don't forget a mirror for the cage when you get one - they love to fall in love with themselves
Tweety is sleeping now, but on the edge of a metal rack. Going to the dollar store soon, oh no.
I turned a wooden stool upside down near where it is perching, it has rungs..It is either the tiny metal rack, or larger rungs on the stool. Birdie's choice. No way to cover it....there is no cage. Had lots of birds growing up, and my brother had an outdoor avery and kept cockatiels.
Hope it's owner is found soon.
what are you feeding little tweety ?
i had a parakeet as a kid - her cage was on a stand and I remember it swinging to and fro in the sylmar quake
she was a bit of a beast, she would lift her cage door and fly into the living room and sit on mom's favorite lamp shade - then she would dive bomb mom's puffy hairdo
Quite the Bird Whisperer aren’t you?
I have had parakeets that got out of their cage and flew around the house. It sounds like you are much better at coaxing a parakeet than I was.
I said, bedtime, go to bed....repeat 6 times. It came to the tray of food and water, and I carried it inside. Easier than the cat! Posted the missing bird, waiting now.
Safe and sound for the night.
It ate, drank water, and I misted it with the hose.
It won't come to me.
It also sat on my back step.
It is now on the neighbors shady tree, listening to classical music out my front window, and the occasional tweet.
My hand can come within 6 inches of it, but it goes away.
Twirp.
Hubs is not in favor of catching it. The bird is banded, belongs to someone.
Sheesh. Worn out now.
Avoiding the expense of a bird cage, etc.
I rolled my window down and said, hey, don't you have a rat to chase ?
Fleas
Use every means possible, it is not a one time thing.
Place a piece of a fleas collar inside the vacumn cleaner bag.
Spray an online product called "Cedarcide" on bedding, carpet, on your shoes, socks, even lightly on your skin.
Using an essential oil mixture:
In a spray bottle (2 ounce), blend the following essential oils:
8 drops Cedarwood or Sandalwood.
10 drops Basil.
10 drops Frankincense.
8 drops Geranium.
12 drops Lavender.
One will have to see if this actually kills fleas, prevents their eggs from hatching, or just prevents fleas from jumping on a person and biting. But it is natural, except for the flea collar.
Vacumn every day.
Thanks for answering FF.
Poor Nala, she is also bored. I know now that I should have adopted her sister, also one year old and identical.
It could also be stress. Or if the cat was sprayed recently, she might be going through menopause. I chewed everybody's head off I was so grumpy :P
The 12 month old cat is chewing! It looks like teething dog behavior, quite aggressively chewing the side/lid of a plastic file container.
Is it teething?
Does it have worms?
Does it have brain damage from heat stroke before she was adopted?
Is it a side effect of withdrawing from anesthesia/spaying surgery?
Is she a psycho cat?
There are a lot of good tips in the reviews on Amazon about this product. I bought it at the local PetSmart store, but always good to read about the experience of others using it.
I think the major active ingredient is tryptophan, the stuff in turkey and milk that makes one sleepy... and theanine, which is found in green tea... and ashwagandha. The fourth active ingredient is one I've never heard of, Eleuthero root.
I used to take theanine and ashwagandha during the caregiving years, they're natural anti-anxiety.
I have seen shows like that, and one rounding up en masse feral cats to be trapped/neutered/or spayed/and released. So many cats, so many volunteers.
I think it was done overnight, trapping them when they came for food.
You were not supposed to lick it!
(The Zen calming Licks, I mean.)
Find out what's in em, I think you have found the sleep-aid needed by so many caregivers on here. We could get our own ingredients, perhaps in an essential oil.
Report back, because Gershun could really use a good nights sleep, as she has said in the past. Or, we could just go to the pet store or vet!
It won't be the first time an animal med is good for people.
In James Herriot's book: "All Things Bright and Beautiful", he mentions
Mrs. Bond's cats, Ch. 22.
I had read them all! Of course, I cannot remember all the details, but you can look these things up online for a Chapter synopsis, and the name of Mrs. Bond's cat.
His books are still very popular.
Cats rule ok!
For my own non aggressive kitty I confine her to a powder room and into the crate
not tame at all
ran as soon as I opened the kitchen window
I left a pie tin of water in the shade for it
so hot here still
Thanks for all the tips! There are some good ideas in there, thank you!
(cousin's cat did that every time she was p'd off - lol)