RE: A cat that WILL NOT rest! Help!

Sal the 1st — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 14:23:13 GMT

dont know if this will help you or not - used it with one of my previous cats recovering from pelvic#

I used a collection of fireguards turned on their sides to create a very large low level kennel to stop him climbing and filled it with a few things like this (not the exact same ones as this was years ago). You can often pick up the fireguards free/very cheap from the free pages on face book

http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/cats/cat_toys/catit_design_senses/321150 for when he is feeling a bit better

http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/cats/cat_toys/cat_tunnel_bag/tunnels/13550

so he still got to move around but no jumping or climbing, he particularly liked his tunnel

try wrapping some of his favourite treats (if he is food orientated) or catnip toy in loads of layers of paper or boxes - that should keep him occupied for a little while at least

had all sorts of toys in with him and lots of catnip toys which kept him pretty chilled out - came out when I could keep an eye on him. How long are you looking to rest him up? Must admit mine was getting peed off after the first 3 weeks- good luck! . I like the soft collars for cats but is there any chance he wont need one? We hardly ever use them where I work now (except eye or ear cases) and have to say in the last year we have only had a single cat remove its own sutures (and that was after a week so wasnt a problem). I was quite surprised when I started at this practice at the lack of buster collars but now I am of the mind that in many cases they can cause more problems than they solve, even my own cat who is an absolute little sod with sutures didnt need one post ex lap.