A few days after her birthday (June 9), Pepper went into the closet in our bedroom. And, except for three brief trips, and her sneaky trips to the litterbox, she hasn't left. She spends all day and night, in the corner of the closet, under my wife's dresses.
If we go in to see her, she's happy to see us and she purrs and behaves just as she always did. She's eating more than she had been. She gets brushed and is very happy about it. But she will not leave the closet. On the occasions that she has, she spent only a few minutes out and then literally ran back to her hiding spot. She likes to be picked up, as long as we don't leave the closet.
So, she doesn't seem sick or in pain. She's just... afraid of the house.
Cats.
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Update:
Three weeks later, she's out. Over the course of a few days, she started venturing out of the closet for longer and longer stays. And now she's 100% out again. I'd like to think it was because I gently coaxed her to come hang out with me just on the other side of the closet door. But who knows. Cats.
