Need advice, help, opinions, ANYTHING!!!!

[rg_girlca]

I don't know what has happened to Nugget, but something has obviously terrified him. I have noticed for the past few days that he was very skittish.
He seemed to stay in or near my room. If he did venture up to the back end of the house, toward the kitchen area, he would slink and be very, very cautious. He generally was scared. When I would go to pet him he would duck his head like he didn't want to be touched and he is like that with my son and hubby also. Today my hubby picked him up and brought him into the kitchen and you could see how scared he was. When my hubby sat in the chair, Nugget just bolted from his arms, ran up into my room, straight under my bed and has been there since. When I knelt down on the floor and reached to pet him, he pulled his head back and started to smell my fingers. So I just stroked his paws and he started to purr.
He also hasn't been playing with Poppy or Willy like he was either.
I hate seeing him like this and it breaks my heart that he is avoiding my petting him. He is eating, drinking and using his litter box okay and seems well apart from him being scared. I thought maybe one of the cats did something to him, but he isn't avoiding any them when they are near him. In fact he still headbumps them and does his little brrp, brrps to them.
Is there anything that you can think of that will help him overcome whatever it is that scared him?? Should I just leave him be or what??
I would just love to know what happened for him to be like this.

Anything you can give me would very much be appreciated.

[K & L]

Maybe there's something wrong medically and should have him checked by a vet? If he's in some kind of pain this may have him frightened? Once you get the clean bill of health, then I would be watching to see if he is being bullied by one of the others. Has he ever had problems with UTI's?

[Laura's Babies]

Gee whiz, POOR baby! It sounds like something REALLY scared the daylights out of him... Have you look around the house for something that may have fallen on him? I have no advice except to keep things quiet for awhile and keep reassuring him that everything is alright now... Everything scares Chester, especially sudden loud noises.

[jazzcat]

If you don't think another cat scared him do you think any chance that Buddy might have? I know that Disney who had never done anything to a cat got testy when she was so sick near the end. I'm not trying to pin anything on poor Buddy, just trying to help you figure it out.

[jenluckenbach]

Well, something real or imaginary (maybe a memory) is bothering him. There is not a whole lot you can do except keep things as normal as possible. If it continues or worsens you might concider a vet visit to rule out pain of some sort.

[catmandu]

It may have been a Friend visting who scared him.
I showed my Porch off to my Brother and SIL, and the Cats were scared for two days.
Maybe something feel and scared him.
A little Cat Nip will relax him, and Nugget and Karina Angels will visit and calm Nugget down.