“Cats don’t like change without their consent.”- Roger A. Caras
Posted by Monkeymanx in PersonalA few weeks ago, I wrote about how Queue was scratching his head too much. We tried giving him allergy medicine, but that seemed to have no effect. We decided to get Queue one of those collars that will not allow him to scratch. One of those cone type things…
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We came home, found the manx on the top of the recliner, one of his favorite perches. I held him down and Candy snapped the collar on him.
Needless to say, he was pretty upset about the situation. He hopped off the chair, and immediately started to freak out! I think he was seeing the cone in his peripheral vision and didn’t know what it was, so he kept backing up from it. After a few minutes of going around the room in reverse, he decided that he could not get away from the new blue thingie, so he started to cautiously walk around normally. Well, mostly normally, on every other step he’d bob his head as if he was trying to duck under something. If he bumped the side of the cone into anything, he’d back up or jump. Of course every time he bumped into something Candy would laugh. After a few dirty looks from me,she would just giggle, and finally the cat’s pitiful plight only made her snicker.
The next day I came home for lunch and to check on my poor manx. I was fearing the worst, thinking that somehow the cone was caught on the gate as he tried to jump over or something else that was extremely improbable. He was fine, but was moping. By his second day in the collar he seems to be adjusting to it, but still is not anywhere in the general vicinity of happy.
We hope that after a week (or less) the scabs on his head will have healed and he will not feel the need to scratch his head so much that he causes scabs. I guess if he goes back to scratching we’ll need to take him back to the vet and see where we need to go from there.
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