I've been in and out for the past month or two and although I read at
least the original posts I haven't had a chance to respond. I just
wanted everyone to know that they have been getting purrs from Hobbes,
Selena and Lacey and healing, soothing, get home quick, etc thoughts
from myself.

Hobbes has begun to exhibit a strange behavioral pattern and I'm
wondering if anyone else has a cat with such a response.  You may
remember that I've mentioned that he has sensitive spots that you can
pet and he'll chew on his leg.  Well now he has developed several
sensitive spots that cause him to have almost spasmodic attacks.  He'll
violently chew his leg, lose control of his bladder and virtually attack
anything near him.  It is very strange. We haven't found exactly the
spot(s) that causes the problem. I can tell you it is on his side.  Two
days ago I picked him up to put him on the bed at night and found the
spot. Unfortunately, instead of biting his leg he started biting my
thumb.  His jaws were just clinching and unclenching around my thumb and
it took several seconds to calm him enough to get him to stop.
Unfortunately, he managed to break the skin and by the next day it was
obvious I needed to see a doctor so now I'm on seven days of
amoxacillin.  I guess its better than spending three days in the hospital.

Has anyone seen this kind of reaction from a cat?  Its almost the same
type reaction you get when you hit 'the spot' on a d*g that causes their
back leg to involuntarily scratch.  Love that cat, but he is strange.

Julie