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In July we took a 3rd rescue cat into our home, Lucas is a lovely black neutered tom around 3 years old, he was living outdoors with a gang of cats and had 3 kittens, I think he was probably pack leader and was neutered before he came to us. We have a female tortie Roxie aged 7 who is the boss of the entire house (humans included) and a 6 year old male Merlin mostly white with a black tail who is a total softie. Both Merlin and Roxie get along fine and play together (while she allows). We naively thought we could throw Lucas into the mix and everything would be fine. He was aggressive towards both and there were fights. So after 4 weeks of a separated household we got a large cage in the main living room and started from scratch. We covered the cage over, Feliway plug ins, Zylkene all round, cat nip spray all over the cage and slowly slowly pulled back the cover. We now have a situation where they all eat side by side (Lucas in the cage) and Merlin will go up to the cage and talk to Lucas and run past in play ... Roxie is more cautious but they all snooze happily in the same room and the aggression is much less as it stands. In the evening we get Lucas out on a lead and let him have a play with the toys in the room, however on a couple of occasions when he has got close to Roxie/Merlin there was aggression (no injuries just a lot of noise and fur flying). We try and give equal cuddles and play time but there is never a situation at the moment when they are allowed to meet unsupervised or off the lead. We have gotten into a routine with it all but we are now more than 3 months down the line and we are unsure what next steps we can take or how to allow Lucas time out of the cage and what to do if there are fights. We want there to be an integrated household. Rehoming is not an option he is the mostly cuddly adorable boy with me and my hubby, we won't give in, he's here to stay. Anyone got any thoughts on how we can get him out of the cage?? Thank you Jools x