Cat advice PLEASE!

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ninsun, lorigami, ANYone with any ideas!

I am really at my wits end with the cats. I love them. I'm more attached to Jack simply because I think of his as my cat, and Diyoji as my brother/sister in laws cat I'm fostering. But I care a great deal for both of them don't get me wrong.
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After my dog Marco died my cat Jack started acting REALLY odd. He had always been an out going, darting out the door when it was open, kind of aloof unless he wanted a snuggle, independent cat, Suddenly he went into this hyper needy mode after Marco's death. I was afraid it was loneliness and the fat that I was gone most of every day made it worse. I felt horrible about Jack being alone all the time. He would be standing it the door when I came home meowing loudly. As I came in he would stay under my feet so I constantly tripping over him. If I sat down at my computer he was immediately on top of me. He even slept literally on top of my back or head.He would Meow at me insistently when I got up in the morning. I'd feed him and then rush off to work for 12 hours, come home spend about 3 hours on the computer or doing chores and then retire. I felt like this must be a miserable lonely life for him. I would by him toys that he never showed the slightest interest in unless coated in huge amounts of catnip.


So a few months ago when my brother went back off to med school, and Jen was pregnant and trying to take care of like 7 cats. I offered to take one as company for Jack. I was offered Diyoji. An adorable friendly tubby turtle shell tabby cat. And when I say tubby I MEAN it. She is short and has a improbably large head so she actually looks built to be a tubby cat, Garfield style. She came over to my place and at first didn't respond well to Jack. She hid for months or his and ran when he came near. Jack immediately went back to being Mr. Independent, Darting out of doors every chance he got, and resumed what I thought of as normal Jack. I early on noticed that Diyoji had a really aweful trait of vomiting several times a day. Sometimes it was hair balls but mostly it was just regurgitated food. I asked my SiL about this and she said Diyoji just ate too much and vomited so she could eat more. As Diyoji was a very tubby kitty I assumed this to be true. I switched her to a sensitive stomach food, that I don't think she liked much. She stopped Vomiting all the time and i was really relieved.

Thing is I began to notice that while Diyoji's fear of Jack seemed to have lessened she as still nearly always hiding behind the curtain, except for the short time I had a male roommate. She would snuggle and be affectionate with him. If I brought over any male she would pester them almost insatiably with climbing on, snuggling and getting under feet. The first think I noticed seamed to be wrong was she got hot spots. I figured it was jack tracking in fleas from outside so I got both of them flea meds. The hot spots continued.

Then I noticed she was loosing weight, and that as soon ass my male roommate left she went into hiding almost never to be seen. She would come running when I put out food, but almost never other than that. She was always behind a curtain next to an air vent. I thought she just like the heat. But her weight lost REALLY began to worry me she was in a few months down to a normal size cat. that was LOT of weight to shed. So I took her to the vet. He first thought it was Diabetes and checked her sugar. Nope. Then he checked her for a thyroid issue. Nope Her bill of health came back clean except for white blood-cells that indicated it was allergies. I got her a depomedrol shot. She suddenly became a totally different cat. She never hides behind the curtain. She isn't exactly snuggly but she will let me pet her roams the house freely, and became an actual part of the household.

Again I don't think she much liked the food, as she would meow constantly now even when her bowl was full. I began to have to stand over her for her to start eating. Then I noticed the vomiting start back up. I thought if I mixed in some wet food, it might help. So I went and found a cat food with real ingredients, nothing I couldn't identify, real meat real veggies I could actually see and differentiate. I would spoon a little of this into the bowl with the dry food and it seemed to help a bit. after the occasional wet food mix I noticed her boc and around it was covered in liquid poos. I mean REALLY totally liquid. which I had not noticed before, even when I had fed her the same wet food. So I was getting her to eat, but now she was vomiting everywhere and then having horrific diarrhea. I called the vet. I have to take them a stool sample Monday as i got too busy to do it Friday.

I bought a new super sensitive stomach, high dollar brand of dry food. She seams to be tolerating it better. I haven't had a vomiting or diarrhea episode in the past couple of days. She has shit outside the litter box a couple times. I mean obviously outside the box, but I'm not sure what to think about that.

Now a NEW problem. She fights with Jack. Hissing and leaping at each other. At first I was really dismayed about this. I had heard she fights with other cats and I'm not about to let her treat Jack that way. Now Jack has begun pissing all over the house. The first time I noticed it was about a month ago, but I only saw him do it once and the house was a wreck and I figured he was being annoyed about the mess... he gets that way. In the past week it has become unbearable. I can't even find the places he is peeing at times,just the fowl reek of cat urine so bad it's taking over the house. I started to think it was a protest against this new visible cat, her causing the food to be changed, and she was hissing and fighting with him. However... A surprising development that has me pulling my hair out is that last night when I came in and discovered an article of my clothing had been peed on I threw it out into the hall to try and rinse out. When I cam back to it in a bit, Diyoji was snuggling it rolling on it, and otherwise seeming the most enthralled cat ever.

I'm loosing my mind. I am moving in a week. I CANNOT take a pair of cats who vomit, shit, and piss allover the house into my new roommates home. My sister in law said she would take Diyoji back but didn't want to as she had the baby on the way and cleaning up after Diyoji was going to be a major strain. My mom said she would take Jack months ago, but now she has gone back on that, as my brother Derrick is staying with her and he is severely allergic to cats. I don't know what to do. If I take Diyoji back then Jack will be alone again, although that may not be too terrible as he might be friends with my roommate, I'm going to be out of town for two weeks out of every month and I don't know how Jack will handle that. And now that Jack has begun the pissing on things thing, Will he stop? (BTW one important piece of information here is that Jack and Diyoji are both FIXED) Even if I didn't have the vomit and shit to worry about, I SIMPLY can't have a cat that pisses on things. If it were my house maybe I could find a way to deal, but it's not and I can't let him do that to someone else's house.

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CAT ADVICE

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Jack has been telling you he wants his home back he doesnot want to share Your sister will av to av her cat back Both cats are not happy Jack was deeply saddened by Marco's departure he expected Marco to be always there he was scared stiff of loosing you to hence the clinging Once Jack see's he has got you to himself he will settle down and stop being a water cart - with the pissing he is simply making everywhere his territory his territory alone