Originally Posted by Spook

Just adding on to everyone else's helpful comments here: Remember to only go and see her when you are in a calm state of mind. She is going to also be picking up your feelings of stress/fear ontop of her own.

Best of luck and I hope she feels better soon.

Originally Posted by gloworm*mushroom

You say the lump was removed to have a biopsy? is there any chance that whatever caused the lump could be causing her pain anywhere else?

Originally Posted by Cazzer

she sounds like an extremly stressed cat to me. She's been through an awful lot in a very short space of time. She can probably smell your dog on you which probably terrifies her. I had a much loved raggie that hated being in a multi cat home that would scare the sh*t out of me with his attacks he was so very vicious. He would attack my face and bite me on the chest etc. Tried feliway, bach remedies and zyklene and none of it worked. We rehomed as a single cat and he became a typical raggie.

Originally Posted by ameliajane

I don't have any helpful advice to add really but my cat attacked me once when he was very stressed (like your's, due to multiple factors including an encounter with a dog).



It was very frightening - he bit my hand, with incredible force and speed, twice, right down to the bone and i ended up in A+E.

A cat that is in that highly stressed, aggressive state is very powerful, fast and very determined and, like you, i was nervous of him for a while afterwards. I think when you see them like that you see a very scary side to your lovely placid pet that you never would have believed existed.

Oh, and infection can cause confusion too, which along with everything else might have contributed to your cat's behaviour.

It sounds like you're doing everything right. I can understand your concern for your children but give yourself time to get over the shock and your cat chance to settle again before thinking about rehoming.

And you have my sympathy - i was really scared too...

Originally Posted by Cazzer

I mentioned my raggie's story to show you how stressed a cat could be and how quickly it can change. He was evil whilst he was with us and changed over night when he was a single cat. we tried for years to work with him and nothing made any difference. Hopefully once your poor cat realises that the dog is not going to get to her/felway kicks in she will be back to normal.