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bob has 3 cats unregistered |
posted 04-03-2003 12:42 AM
I've got 3 cats
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 IP: Logged |
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bob has 3 cats unregistered |
posted 04-03-2003 12:56 AM
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... IP: Logged |
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Isis unregistered |
posted 04-03-2003 08:47 AM
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. IP: Logged |
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jr8sr3 New Member  Posts: 1 |
posted 01-28-2004 09:48 PM
I am having the same problem and its driving me MAD. I brought home Jinx from the pound in September. She is 2 years old. I already had Badger, 7 year old Male, Reese, 3 year old female, and Talon 2 year old female. None of them get along with her and she doesn't try to get along with them either. The 3 of them think they are tag team wrestlers and if I don't watch them it usually ends up that she is trapped under my BED all day long. I'm tired of the fighting, hissing, yowling, etc. I want them to stop. My male has bitten me twice when he has been in the middle of trying to get her and he NEVER had bitten me or anyone else in the 7 years before. If anyone could help me out I would most appreciate it because I have had it with the nonsense! IP: Logged |
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cacey Member  Posts: 32 |
posted 01-28-2004 11:32 PM
Have you guys tried spraying Feliway? It's a "happy spray" like Isis was mentioning. If nothing else they will probably eventually just start avoiding eachother after awhile. IP: Logged |
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Yahdah Member Posts: 75 |
posted 01-29-2004 02:57 AM
its very hard to have many adult cats living in close quarters and expect them all to get along. I bring home a lot of kittens from work and I find my adult cats will accept a kitten under 1 month old, no hissing or spitting, but once they are 6 or 8 weeks old and over, my adult cats will hiss and growl and sometimes give it a smack in the head if it gets too close. Getting an adult cat to accept another adult cat can almost seem impossible. As a general rule, it takes approx 3 months before any kind of tolerance of both or all parties is noticed. I have 4 particular cats that are related (mother, son and 2 daughters )and there are times when there are sibling squabbles, or mother cannot stand one daughter and favours another, and next month visa versa. I find with most cats, if they can't stand eachother, they either learn to tolerate one anothers company, or spend their lives avoiding one another. But there are also times when a cat will never ever be accepted into the environment, sometimes even hunted down and tormented by the other cats. I am sorry to say, in instanced like these, if you want peace back in your home, you have to rehome the troubled cat. I have rehomed/rescued many cats in situations like this. Often they go to homes where they are no other cats, and are happiest when it is just them and their new human. Some cats love the company of another felines, others are born to live alone. Listen and learn from each cat you live with, observe their behaviour, what kind of cat/s do you have ? solo cats ? or company cats ? IP: Logged |
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empressjulz Member Posts: 64 |
posted 01-29-2004 12:30 PM
hi bob, i don't have any particular advice but i noticed that your cats are declawed. did you know that that is a very painful and tortorous experience for them? it's the equivalent of removing a large chunk of their paw. ///ej IP: Logged |
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