Things have not gone well here since that episode where I walked in on
Jewel after holding the neighborhood cat, and Jewel having the
aggressive episode.  That was last Thursday.  Since then she has had
"episodes" on Tuesday and Thursday again.  These were not so bad that
I had to lock her up, but she did stalk me for hours, warbling,
growling, hissing and occasional screaming.  She has not made any
contact with me during these, but she has had me cornered or "sofa-d"
for long periods of time.  The first one started as I just stood up to
walk towards the open front door and lasted a few hours till I went to
bed.  Next time she was sitting on a windowsill and Seamus went up to
join her.  Like she usually does when that happens, she hissed and
batted at Seamus (usually he just leaves the window and that is that),
but I walked by them at the time and she turned, looked at me, and
hissed (has never happened before), and that started it, she started
to warble/yowl, hiss, growl, stalk, etc.  I have had her checked by
the vet, lab work checked,  talked to the office behavior specialist,
and have an appointment with a veterinary behaviorist but
unfortunately not until June 8.  I was told just to try to ignore her
while she is in that mode, but that is damn hard to do I gotta tell
you, but I am trying.  We are walking on egg shells here (me and
Seamus), never able to fully relax now.  But I had a neighbor come
over while she was stalking and yelling at me the last time, and she
(neighbor) could walk right by Jewel without any reaction, she looked
right at her and talked to her, and still no reaction.  I walked by
and the growling started.  The neighbor also said that the neighbors
cat was sitting at the front of my house about half an hour before the
windowsill incident happened.  For now the front windows and doors are
staying closed and I am spraying Feliway daily (have the usual
infusers running also).
Any other ideas out there?
Teri