Thread: Integration *sigh*

Thanks for the advice MandyCoonie,

No spats, not really. Only when he gets too close and she hisses and pats him away. He is still testing her and his boundaries which is perfectly normal and am prepared for.

I think part of the problem may be a hairball (when she did attempt a spat and got a load of fluff in her mouth and not much else) As she is a short hair I don't think she was quite prepared to swallow all that fluff.

For the suspected hairball or possible blockage I have been giving her half a teaspoon of petroleum jelly daily and today after examining her litter tray (the things we do for our cats!) Have given her milk for it's laxative effects and we are watching her carefully.

We have been doing all her feedings on her own, we did start on the kitchen counter where he can't reach yet but moved her into the quiet of our bedroom for feedings when she spent the whole time just watching him.

She will eat but only his kitten kibbles - not her own and dreamies. She hasn't been touching her wet food and she snears at his - yurk. She will however gobble down a small bowl of tuna (I'm concerned about the tuna with all the salt content but at least she's eating) which I put the petroleum jelly in with and extra water.

I have removed felliway from the house and am trying again with smaller doses of the serenum to see if that makes a difference to her twitching and over cleaning. She will not play with her favourite toys but she will play with us with a piece of string or any of my hair bands that she likes to pull apart! (pfft, expensive toys for nothing)

It doesn't help that she has taken to squinting her right eye like a pirate, but I think this may be a result of either rubbing her face in the catnip or from the over cleaning and is a scratch. I have been using cotton pads and a mild saline solution twice a day on this. (It does seem to magically get better when she is-
*Playing with string
*Eating tuna
*Eating dreamies
*Rolling in catnip
and then get much much worse again when he is in the room or when looking at us directly. Is she milking this?

(I'm very sorry if this is a bit jumbled or if I have repeated myself :S)