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Hello everyone, I live alone in an apartment with my cat for about 10 years. She’s my baby. She had a cat companion for a few year but he passed away 5 years ago. My cat is pretty shy and skittish. If people came over shed run and hide. She’s a bit braver now but still reacts to every noise. It’s always been just me and her. She’s met a few dogs before but didn’t like them. I started seeing a girl about half a year ago now who has 2 dogs. One is a 12 year old chihuahua and the other is a 7 month chihuahua-pug. My cat and her dogs have met a few times, maybe no more then a half hour. She’s relatively chill around them until they get too close and start sniffing her. suddenly she goes into attack mode. She seems to be pretty comfortable in our apartment but it’s looking like I will be moving into my girlfriend place. My place doesn’t allow dogs to live in the complex.
So I’ll be ripping my cat out of her domain and into my girlfriends place. I’m unsure how my cat will react. When I first moved into my current apartment 2 years ago she practically hid in the bedroom and never came out for 2 weeks. And now she’s going to be in a place with all new stuff, new smells and 2 hyper dogs. I want her to have her best life but I’m concerned how she’s going to react to this. It’s always been her and her 1 human. Now it’s 2 humans and 2 dogs. We are setting up my bed and cat post, and litter in the spare bedroom to hopefully give her some comfort. In the long run I’d love for all 3 pets to exists and all be cuddled up on the couch together. But I’ve been having doubts over there last few interactions of her swiping and hissing at the dogs for getting to close. This also makes my girlfriend uneasy as her young pup got his eye scratched by a cat on her 2nd day of owning him, in witch he recovered fine.
Has anyone gone through this with a senior cat? I feel it would be a little different if we were moving into my place where she’s already comfortable but unfortunately we can’t. Any tip/tricks? I love this cat more then anything. We’ve been through a lot. But I’m 35 and can’t put my life on hold until she bites the dust so I can have a relationship.
So I’ll be ripping my cat out of her domain and into my girlfriends place. I’m unsure how my cat will react. When I first moved into my current apartment 2 years ago she practically hid in the bedroom and never came out for 2 weeks. And now she’s going to be in a place with all new stuff, new smells and 2 hyper dogs. I want her to have her best life but I’m concerned how she’s going to react to this. It’s always been her and her 1 human. Now it’s 2 humans and 2 dogs. We are setting up my bed and cat post, and litter in the spare bedroom to hopefully give her some comfort. In the long run I’d love for all 3 pets to exists and all be cuddled up on the couch together. But I’ve been having doubts over there last few interactions of her swiping and hissing at the dogs for getting to close. This also makes my girlfriend uneasy as her young pup got his eye scratched by a cat on her 2nd day of owning him, in witch he recovered fine.
Has anyone gone through this with a senior cat? I feel it would be a little different if we were moving into my place where she’s already comfortable but unfortunately we can’t. Any tip/tricks? I love this cat more then anything. We’ve been through a lot. But I’m 35 and can’t put my life on hold until she bites the dust so I can have a relationship.