I took Tabitha to the vet the other day for her checkup. Overall she’s fine, though her thyroid is a little overactive. The vet requested a stool sample since they weren’t able to obtain one there.
These days Tabitha spends her time outside, and she goes out every chance she gets. In order to get a stool sample, I have to keep her inside until she uses the litter box.
Tabitha is extremely unhappy with this turn of events.
Last night she kept trotting to the door every 10 minutes, since that’s usually all it takes for me to notice she wants to go outside. Her attitude seemed to be that I must not notice that she wants to go out, and that it must be a simple oversight on my part.
Since she’ll dart out the door as soon as I open it, I’ve been having to lock her inside the second bedroom anytime I go outside.
She doesn’t understand why I’m doing this to her, and now she escalated from mildly confused to VERY upset. She hates having her autonomy taken away.
This morning she kept coming downstairs to hop on my lap in a last-ditch effort to be nice and remind me to let her out. When that didn’t work, she switched gears and is now ignoring me.
A half hour ago she came downstairs to sit down next to my computer desk with her back to me; she wanted me to know I was being ignored.
A few minutes after that I went into the kitchen to give her some medicine. It’s wrapped inside a cat treat, and she generally likes it. I called her into the kitchen and she ignored me. I made eye contact with her and called her again.
She looked at me and deliberately sauntered off into the bedroom. I’m officially being ignored.
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