So, you know Pablo, the best cat ever?
Yeah, not so much.
My one complaint about him is that he’s nervous & a little skittish. He has this thing against the dehumidifier. I have this thing against mold in my house. Every time the dehumidifier comes on, Pablo jumps & runs. Sometimes I’m holding him & I get some scratches. Sometimes he’s sleeping on the ottoman & we laugh as he crashes into a wall on his way out of the room.
The past week he’s been upset. More skittish than normal. He’s a smartish cat though so when I was watching him, he peed on a pile of clothes. That earned him a trip to the vet. The vet found stuff in his urine & now he’s on an antibiotic. For a cat, these things are horsepills. He took the pill surprisingly easily. I wrapped him in a blanket, Jason held him & I shoved the pill down his throat. I haven’t seen the pill again, so I assume he actually swallowed it.
Last night, I left Jason & the kids at home & headed out to finish up school supply shopping (Oh the sticker shock!) & get a few grocery’s. Jason called at the very end of my trip to tell me the cat had attacked him.
Jason, Gavin & Tova were sitting on the couch, watching football when the cat launched himself across the room & used Jason’s face as a scratching post.
It’s bad. He has a nice gouge on the bottom part of his nose, a bunch of scratch marks on the bridge & his eyebrow. Gavin had a scratch on his leg, & Tova had 2 scratches on her arm.
I’m still in shock. I’m sure the dehumidifier kicked on & that spooked him, but I have no idea why he would deliberately go after Jason.
It should be an easy decision. Pablo either needs a new home or a one-way trip to the vet. Logically I know that. I’m really struggling with this though. Pablo is such a nice cat. He snuggles, he loves attention, he’s good with the kids. But he attacked my husband & that really should trump all of Pablo’s good qualities.
Jason wants him gone. I want to figure out what’s wrong. It’s so bizarre that as nervous as Pablo is, in the last 18 months he has handled going from the cat of a workaholic & never-home teen, to the cat of 3 kids with a dog, to moving to a new house & he’s never even remotely acted out. Is it possible the bladder infection was making him cranky & extra sensitive? Is it possible he’s finally snapped after all the changes? Is it possible this is who he truly is & we’d better get rid of him before he does serious damage to one of the kids? I’m so confused.
And I shouldn’t be. This should be a no-brainer.
Unfortunately, it’s not a no-hearter.
K~