Cat Hissing At Other Cat After Vet

However we started noticing continued aggression of cat b to cat a.

Cat hissing at other cat after vet. We bathed cat b who showed no signs of aggression toward us after getting out of the bath and let them both roam our apartment to dry off at their leisure. Cat bashing just raises the stress levels of all involved and the longer it goes on the more time it will take to reverse. Its not that your cat smells of the vet but that when he came back he may have been scared about his visit and has been reacting differently to your ther cat. Theres a type of aggression that occurs between cats in the same household after a veterinary visit that can be easily prevented with a little planning.

We noticed cat b getting aggressive and hissing at cat a but assumed he just didnt want to cat a to get him wet. This change in behavior is what is causing your other cat to react aggressivily towards them. To help prevent nonrecognition aggression take the following measures after bringing a cat home from your veterinarians office and before reintroducing him or her to your other cat s. Its the strange smells.

Ensure that a cat has fully recovered from sedation or anesthesia. If possible bathe a cat to remove veterinary odors. This sounds abit like trauma aggression. According to the american.

I guess cats are so dependent on their sense of smell they think its a new kitty who has invaded the home. The longer the cat stays as in when our female tortoiseshell stayed 3 days the longer the hissing goes on. When a cat is ill its body chemistry can make it smell different and other cats often change their behavior toward it even before the vet visit. Thats actually quite common especially if the cat was neutered or if the vet applied medications or did anything else to affect their scent.

Thats when ghost cat started hissing surprising all of us especially poor baby speck. As stevenson notes cats who are handled roughly might hiss during restraint and on approach similarly you also may notice your cat hissing during a visit to the vet as a reaction to being restrained by the doctor or technicians. Once when i had two and both went to the vet no hissing. Peppercorn does not smell like herself to the other cat.

Happens every time one goes to the vet i have had cats all my life i am 50. Segregate an ill cat from the others especially if theyre treating it poorly.