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Miquette la noctambula by Alain Duport, France
Versions of this article in French and Spanish can be viewed at: https://www.bahvs.com/alain-duport-french • https://www.bahvs.com/alain-duport-spanish
Miquette, a seven-year-old tortoise-shell, spayed cat, was presented to me for consultation because of bulimia nervosa. She is healthy and weighs 4.8 kg, but she is not overweight.
Let's listen to the owner, a lady about sixty years old living alone with her cat:
"Miquette has been living in an apartment for three years. I adopted her. She lived with neighbours who, leaving the region, would abandon her. The previous owners filled her bowl and just left her. She had food, but that was the only
care. She was still living outside.
She hated dogs. At home, she now lives with my dog. She was spayed three years ago.
She peed next to her litter box nine times out of ten. She was very frightened and hid all day long. She had scabs all around her neck that were treated with corticosteroid therapy."
She was at first presented to behaviourist colleague and was prescribed Prosac, "painkillers", and other drugs. As a
result, she becomes bulimic and pees on the bedding every other time.
"She's a little less “chicken shit”, but she wakes me up every three hours. I give her Royal Canin Vetcat Light and she eats in a gluttonous way, plays, goes outside for two hours and then comes back. She has also been stealing food since that time. Currently she eats a lot and pees next to the litter box. She saw a homeopathic vet who prescribed Opium, Staphysagria, Lithium without success.
To come for a consultation (the owner lives 100 km away)
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