Home �psychotherapy� For Tiger

I read that for humans, 80% of healing is placebo. Optimism and positive thinking can accelerate healing.

I’m hoping that works for cats too.

Tiger has finished his Itraconazole and is now only on Prochlorperazine. The Prochlor serves two purposes – the seizures as well as the “itching”, which the vet suspects is mental in nature. If the (mental) itching can stop, the biting will stop, then the lesions will heal and the seizures will also stop.

Whenever Tiger is wearing the “robes”, he thinks he is sick and he behaves like he is sick too, crouching low when he walks.

So, I’m now trying to wean him off his “robes” (hospital clothes) and get him back on his normal tshirts. I don’t know if that will work, though.

But we’ll never know until we try.

Back to his normal tshirt today.

The normal tshirt does not cover some of the lesions at the thighs, so I’ll have to monitor those. For a start, he will surely bite those. Hopefully, slowly, he will leave those lesions alone.

Removing the “skirt” portion which I sewed on last time.

Look at those bite and scratch holes!

If this doesn’t work out, he still has the three full-length robes that my mum sewed.

One day at a time.

Source: https://myanimalcare.org/2016/12/08/home-psychotherapy-for-t..

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