Fizgig the Homeopathy Cat - the final chapter

Today, three years later, Fizgig is home well and truly. She has become a much happier cat, tolerating family and friends visiting without too much fuss. To my surprise she will sometimes come into the room when people are present, or will stay in the room. She tolerates Keith better and has been known to occasionally purr when he picks her up. She had a recent trip to the vet who commented that she is a very healthy cat for 13 years. Thanks to homeopathy, the effects of her earlier trauma seem to be finally and completely gone.  The End..

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Fizgig had gone. She always answered me when I called her but this time there was silence. We looked everywhere, inside and outside, all around our section - which she never left - but she was gone. Six weeks went by with no sign of her and then one day Keith came in to say he had caught a glimpse of a black and white cat disappearing under the house from inside this shrubbery. I called her with no response so we began to put food and water under the house for her. Once we could see she was eating this, I tried adding a couple of drops of a well known homeopathy trauma remedy to the food with no effect.

This was when I asked for advice from a friend who was an animal homeopath. Listening, she replied "Scaredy cat" and suggested another well known homeopathy trauma remedy. This time, the day after adding a couple of drops of this remedy to her food, Fizgig came out from under the house and with much meowing approached me. I picked her up and we had a rapturous reunion. She is not normally an affectionate cat but this time she snuggled into my shoulder with loud noisy purrs and much head butting.

She had lost weight and condition, her fur was coarse and rough to touch but she was back. I took her inside to my study where she liked to be. She promptly crept under a cabinet and stayed there. She would only stay inside for a while before disappearing back under the house again.  It took about a month and several doses of the remedy before she finally came out and stayed out. (to be continued)

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By the time Fizgig was 10 years old, I had retired from my nursing position and was close to completing my Diploma In Homeopathy.  Fizgig was well settled into her very set routines and behaviours. She had a particular hiding place she used frequently. Our house has a sloping roof with the lowest point at the back of the house. Fizgig had found a way to climb the fence to get up onto the roof at this lowest point. From there she would walk up the roof to a place under the eaves where there was a very small opening - just big enough for her to squeeze through into the ceiling.

That was alright but she would occasionally do a 'Drama Queen' act where there would be this pathetic wailing either from the roof or from her hiding hole in the ceiling. "'I can't get down from the roof ---- I can't get out of this space" she would wail. We would get caught up in her drama as I would try to coax her down off the roof or Keith would climb up and try to get her to come out through the opening in the eaves.

Eventually we discovered this was all a big act and if we ignored her she could get herself out through the opening in the eaves and off the roof. Because she was getting older we became concerned that if she did get stuck in the ceiling of the house, or did get sick or injured and retreated into this space, the only way we would be able to reach her would be to remove sheets of roofing iron. So we made the decision to totally block this opening, after first making sure she was well and truly on the ground.

After this Fizgig disappeared (to be continued)