Well, I know that they were very agitated with me being gone so much. Almost the entire week, I'd be out the door at 6-7 in the morning and not return until 10 or 11 at night. One day (Wed, I think it was), I actually let the food bowl go completely dry. I also had to switch cat litter temporarily, because I'd run out of their usual kind and didn't think to get them more for a few days. (They normally use the pine stuff, and they had to go back to the old clay kind...not sure what they thought of that, but it was a switch for about 2-3 days.) And I'm sure they could probably sense a change in me. I was crying a lot, very stressed, very tense and while I tried to pay them as much attention as possible when I was home, that wasn't much.
They acted like this one time before, when I took in a neighbor's kitty who was in heat (I didn't know that at the time, and thought I'd just found a lost kitty.) The boys growled and fought, but when I got girl kitty out of the basement and returned her to her owner, they settled down in a few hours. This has been going on since Thursday. The ironic thing is, I essentially got Trouble "for" General. When Sabrina died last year, he was literally mourning himself to death. He moped around and wouldn't eat or drink, I guess because he missed his buddy so much. I was so happy when the boys bonded as they did, and their relationship reminded me of the one that General had with Sabrina. (The two of them had a "power struggle" as well, even though she was a female, she was quite dominant, and they had sort of a battle for power throughout her whole life, but it never became vicious.)
I really hope they work it out, too. It's killing me to see General cringing and hiding in his own home. He shouldn't have to be afraid to come out from under the coffee table. :-/ Oh and while days-long power outages aren't common here, we had a crazy one when the big cats were young. It was out for six days and got down to 38 degrees in the house, due to an 18 inch snow. Even then, I don't remember them acting this crazy though.
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Date: 2009-11-30 03:00 pm (UTC)They acted like this one time before, when I took in a neighbor's kitty who was in heat (I didn't know that at the time, and thought I'd just found a lost kitty.) The boys growled and fought, but when I got girl kitty out of the basement and returned her to her owner, they settled down in a few hours. This has been going on since Thursday. The ironic thing is, I essentially got Trouble "for" General. When Sabrina died last year, he was literally mourning himself to death. He moped around and wouldn't eat or drink, I guess because he missed his buddy so much. I was so happy when the boys bonded as they did, and their relationship reminded me of the one that General had with Sabrina. (The two of them had a "power struggle" as well, even though she was a female, she was quite dominant, and they had sort of a battle for power throughout her whole life, but it never became vicious.)
I really hope they work it out, too. It's killing me to see General cringing and hiding in his own home. He shouldn't have to be afraid to come out from under the coffee table. :-/ Oh and while days-long power outages aren't common here, we had a crazy one when the big cats were young. It was out for six days and got down to 38 degrees in the house, due to an 18 inch snow. Even then, I don't remember them acting this crazy though.