Thanks for your response TabooKitty. Things have settled down for Mushroom. I have to let her out though. I do live in a small apartment and she goes nuts if I don't let her out and I hate holding her back. I grew up with cats going in and out of the house so its hard for me to keep her in unless she's sick. Over the weekend she had a bluejay chasing her around my apartmnent building. Yes, the bird was chasing her. It would fly up to her and sit in front of her and fly away when she pretended to chase it. It cherped loudly and when Mushroom would walk away with no interest, it would swoop down and dive at her. My neighbours said it did this to her all day Saturday and Sunday. They were laughing about a bird chasing a cat. Poor Mushroom. She's not the sharpest nail in the toolbox.