Babou

Meet Babou
LOVE BUG ALERT!!! THIS GUY IS A CUDDLER!!!

Babou is a GORGEOUS brown spotted Bengal/Cheetoh cat. He is 8-years-old and is currently living with his owner’s Grandmother.

Babou was adopted as a 12-week-old kitten by his owner, shortly after she graduated from college. They have been together for eight years during which she has moved six times and has been developing her career as a professional photographer. Her career has taken off and now requires a lot of travel and work away from home. She and Babou are very bonded, but the increasing separations have caused him great stress.

The owner’s Grandmother has been caring for him and she absolutely loves him (it’s mutual!) but there are other cats in the home and she soon learned that Babou is extremely prey-driven. He was an only child, after all, so that isn’t surprising. He is currently living in an all-glass sunroom - so he can see what is going on in the home but he can’t participate the way that he would like to.

A few years ago, he was diagnosed with FLUTD (Idiopathic Cystitis) that resulted in him urinating outside the box when he was having an episode and causing the associated damage to living areas that accompanies that behavior. When he was initially diagnosed with FLUTD, he was prescribed fluoxetine and was tried on melatonin in addition to working with a behaviorist, but these efforts were not effective, so every subsequent Cystitis episode resulted in more out-of-box episodes.