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- From: wall@cc.swarthmore.edu (Matthew Wall)
- Subject: Post-spaying rejection - by older cat
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:58:49 GMT
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- Well, we had a weird week. We took Didi, our six month old kitten, to the
- vet last Friday for an overnight stay for her sterilization operation.
-
- The older cat, Gogo (5 yrs), who took about 2 months of surly growling to
- even accept Didi, spent the next day sulking around the house, running from
- room to room, presumably looking for Didi. It was kind of touching. Here
- was this grumpy old cat missing her kitten friend.
-
- Chiah, RIGHT.
-
- Didi gets back from the vet the next day, and Gogo CAN'T STAND HER. She's
- back to the way she was the first day Didi came home from the shelter -
- hissing, growling menacingly, batting and slashing at her at every
- opportunity, and generally being a pain in the rear. And she was equally
- surly and nasty to her humans.
-
- OK, we figured, Didi smells weird - she has antiseptic smell on her, she is
- probably exuding a different odor because of the other animals at the vet,
- and Gogo just doesn't recognize her in the olafactory sense. Give it a few
- days, and things will be back to normal.
-
- A week and a half later, things are just now getting back to normal. Gogo
- is still a little wary of Didi, but they seemed to have started playing
- with one another tentatively yesterday (read: mock-fighting) which we take
- as a good sign.
-
- Did Gogo think she was back to being A-1? (We're somewhat disinclined to
- believe this because she's always been kind of a jungle cat, having been
- mistreated as a kitten before we got her, and hence never much in demand of
- human affection.) Did she simply not recognize Didi? Was it pre-holiday
- blues?
-
- - Matt
-
- wall@cc.swarthmore.edu
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