Our 6 year old cat Copper & 12 year old Katie have never gotten along too well. Katie is the boss of our 5 cats even though she was the 4th to arrive & is the smallest of the five. She didn't take too well to Copper's arrival & they would occassionally have a boxing match. Most of the time though, Copper was a bit timid of her.

Several months ago Copper became much more timid of Katie & started spending most of his time hiding in my closet. He also began staking his territory! We took him to the vet in hopes that there was a physical reason causing this change in behaviour, but he got a clean bill of health. The vet thinks that he must have had an altercation with Katie that caused this change in his behaviour. She recommended that we try to find him a new home in a single cat household.

I was heartbroken at the thought of having to give up my "baby", but it wasn't fair to him to have him be so afraid that he spent that much of his time in the closet & we couldn't have him continue to spray. The only other suggestion that vet had was to give him medication that was a derivative of Prozac, but she was very doubtful that this would have any effect on him.

I told her that we would try anything that might help so she ordered the pills. Well, after one pill he was a new cat! He became much more playful & stopped hiding in the closet! We had forgotten how playful he had been before. He is much more relaxed & as you can see in the picture below, he stretches out & sleeps on the sofa without a worry about Katie. He still acts a bit timid towards her at times, but only when he wants to. Other times he may just walk up to her & unprevoked, give her a swat!

Halleluia for Kittie Prozac!