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2016-06-01 20:44:05 Post No. 2135978
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2016-06-01 20:44:05
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I have a ten year old cat. She's amazing, in great physical health, and a sweetheart.
She has always been skittish around strangers from day one. It used to be that she would go an hide when the doorbell rang, or when someone she wasn't familiar with came over, but that shit changed drastically a couple years ago.
Our neighbor rang the doorbell one day, and the cat went absolutely batshit insane. Hissing, screaming, claws out, puffed out tail, would take it out on me when I tried to pick her up, the whole nine yards. It was completely out of left field, because she had NEVER reacted like this before. She ended up sitting in front of the door "guarding it" for like the next twelve hours, and if I tried to pick her up or distract her, she flat out refused to move.
So the last two years, she has had this same exact reaction to the doorbell every single time it rings. It never fails. When we have food delivered, we have to lock her up in a closet. We had a repairman over working on our fridge a couple weeks ago, and I had to load her in her crate and I just drove her around for an hour and a half, because if a stranger was in the house, she would have had a meltdown that put Chernobyl to shame. And today, I could tell someone had rang the doorbell when I was gone, because I walked in the front door and she immediately pounced and batted at me before she recognized my face.
It's just bizarre, because she's normally so docile and loving, and also due to the fact that this behavior literally came out of nowhere. I know that cats are extremely territorial, but Goddamn. I know that something traumatic had to have triggered this, but I have no idea what. Maybe someone tried to break in one time and she scared them off? It's honestly the only theory that I have.
I've talked to the vet about it. I tried those bullshit hormonal plug-in diffusers, and when that didn't work, the vet talked about putting her on anxiety meds, which I flat out refused to do.
