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bob has 3 cats
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posted 04-03-2003 12:42 AM           Edit/Delete Message
I've got 3 cats
  • Cammie — a 3 year old female grey medium hair
  • Naughty — a 2 year old declawed female siamese mix
  • and Charlie — a 7 month old declawed male grey tabby

We recently brought charlie home to live with the other two. After the initial warming up period, cammie will finally tolerate charlie to the point that they can lay together and not be pissed. However, naughty is a completely different story. He only has to look at her funny and she'll start to growl and hiss. This often provokes him to attack her, commencing in an all out brawl stretching from one side of the house to the next. It's driving us crazy!!!

When I introduced naughty to cammie about 2 years ago, cammie was not very friendly until I gave naughty a bath. The yowling and whining won her over or touched some kind of maternal instinct, I suppose. I hoped the same kind of thing would happen with charlie, but after 6 months or so, it's still out of control. I think he just wants to play with her most of the time - he can only ever really play with me since the other cats get so pissy. And even naughty wants to play sometimes, but as soon as he starts to be the aggressor, she reverts back to the ugliness.

Need some help - any suggestions? Thanks

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bob has 3 cats
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posted 04-03-2003 12:56 AM           Edit/Delete Message
btw, all three are fixed. Also, I did introduce charlie slowly (though only over the course of one week) by keeping him in a seperate room. Maybe not slowly enough...

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Isis
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posted 04-03-2003 08:47 AM           Edit/Delete Message
Just done this introducing a new cat thing myself Bob.
All I can say is it takes time. My vet suggested that we feed them in seperate rooms but as for the fighting some cats will never get on.
The vet also suggested getting a pheromone spray or room deoderiser. This emits scents to your cats which make them 'happy'.
I haven't tried it yet though. After a couple of weeks our three are a little better though if the kitten bugs one of them too much then it is all fur,claws and yowling.
I think the best you can hope for is that they start to tolerate each other.

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