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Are there mental hospitals for cats? (Original Post) panader0 Jul 2020 OP
If you find a mental hospital TEB Jul 2020 #1
Yours is perfect. Ask him. Lochloosa Jul 2020 #7
I will later TEB Jul 2020 #9
He knows who butters his 🍞 Lochloosa Jul 2020 #14
Is it dementia? Sanity Claws Jul 2020 #2
What does she do? LisaL Jul 2020 #3
just give her a bunch of catnip.... samnsara Jul 2020 #4
Is she pooping in her food dish ? magicarpet Jul 2020 #5
Are you suggesting she's a Republican? n/t discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2020 #10
No,.. but in any event,... magicarpet Jul 2020 #12
Send her a mail in form... discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2020 #13
She is half blind and deaf, panader0 Jul 2020 #6
Does she bump into things? Sanity Claws Jul 2020 #16
Just cat owners. gibraltar72 Jul 2020 #8
I had a cat that lived long enough to get dementia. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2020 #11
Also for this one... TomVilmer Jul 2020 #15

Sanity Claws

(21,849 posts)
2. Is it dementia?
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 09:48 AM
Jul 2020

Cats get dementia and can forget where their litter box is, among other things.

What is the problem with your kitty?

To answer your question, not that I know of. Veterinary hospitals are used to help a cat recover from ill health, injury, surgery, etc.
Is there something about the cat's mental health that can be addressed in that kind of setting? Like finding the right med dosage?

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,479 posts)
13. Send her a mail in form...
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 01:05 PM
Jul 2020

...listing the choice of Clinton or Reagan.
Today's GOP won't think twice or even know the difference.

panader0

(25,816 posts)
6. She is half blind and deaf,
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 10:40 AM
Jul 2020

Not pooping in her food, but dementia is probable.
She's a good gal and I'm amazed that she gets around as well as she does.
Her one big joy is eating, she eats a lot but stays quite bony.

Sanity Claws

(21,849 posts)
16. Does she bump into things?
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 09:01 PM
Jul 2020

I had a cat with kidney disease who rebelled against getting fluids. He eventually went blind and started bumping into walls, etc., even though he knew the apartment. At that point, we decided the kindest thing was to euthanize him. The vet agreed.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,858 posts)
11. I had a cat that lived long enough to get dementia.
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 12:37 PM
Jul 2020

Luckily it didn't get to the point where she stopped using the litter box, or anything truly terrible.

At the time she was an indoor-outdoor cat, which I don't do anymore. She'd be outside at night and go into the middle of a somewhat busy intersection half a block away and stand in the middle of it. A couple of times someone brought her home to us. Because she was used to going outside, it was very difficult to keep her in, meaning keep her from slipping out an open door. But we did do that successfully the last few months of her life.

One humorous aspect of her dementia is that if an ice cube fell on the floor, she was completely entranced watching it melt.

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