Separation Anxiety: I hate it when my mum leaves me alone

I'm not a scaredy cat. Unlike most cats, I do not fear many things. Anything that appears scary at first I like to investigate. But I hate it when I'm alone. Even when my mum is upstairs I start to meow for her to come down. If she doesn't hear me I pick up my soft toy and carry it upstairs in my mouth to give her as a gift.

With the toy I always gift to my mum

Anyone know why I do this? Mum thinks there could be many reasons why I meow and take my toy to her. For example:

• I want feeding. 
• I want attention. 
• I want to play. 
• I'm lonely.
• I want to hunt.
• I just like to annoy her. 
• I hate being left alone.

Luckily, she doesn't like to go out much and she rarely leaves me alone for long because she works from home. But I don't like to be left entirely alone in the house for even an hour. For some reason, I start to panic.

When she took me to the pet hotel  a while ago, I got worse because I felt like I'd done something wrong and that she had dumped me and would never come back for me. Ever since that awful time I've been more afraid of being left alone.

Do other kitties feel the same? How do you handle it when your humans go away? If you're an only cat like me I can imagine it gets scary and you feel abandoned, right? 

 Here is what Jackson Galaxy has to say about separation anxiety.