Thanks everyone and sorry for the delay in responding. Sadly my Grandma died on Tuesday and my week has been all about arranging flights, accommodation etc so I can go to her funeral.
I spoke with my regular pet sitter and she assures me she will keep the cats separate while I am away. Fingers...
Hi everyone,
I have posted my cat reintroduction woes previously (following redirected aggression).
They keep having setbacks and now for the past 3 weeks I have kept them separated completely and finally my house has felt peaceful.
Is there anything wrong with keeping them separated...
Thank you. I have just read through all these articles. The description of the territorial aggression in the article about introductions gone wrong is the exact description of what they are doing. Which is weird as they have always lived in this home together.
It’s so frustrating to me to...
Hi everyone. This behavior has continued escalating and now the cats are totally separate once again. Weirdly they ate treats side by side no issues and then shared a wet food treat side by side. Immediately after Ivy looked up at Fiona and started hissing, to which Fiona hissed back and ran...
Hi Everyone, I am back with a need for some advice or reassurance. Since I wrote last, things had progressed very well. The girls slowly graduated to loose together all day, even when I wasn’t home, and separate at night. We got really close to me leaving them loose together at night too. They...
Wow your words could totally be mine. Yes when they are put together I am badly hovering and anxious. Like I get anxious towards the end of a workday as I know I have to come home and deal with this.
I’m like you. There’s no way I can play with them both 30 min a day. I work all day and have...
I feel your pain! I have a cat who does this too. She’s done it the whole time I’ve had her (4 years) and like yours, she looks blissfully happy when she does it. She seems to do it when she is excited and happy. I HATE it. I used to go clap and make her stop but then I realized it was just...
I just thought of something I wanted to mention. I am not an expert at this at all (since I can’t even solve my own situation) but I wanted to mention that I have noticed whenever I introduce the cats to anything new in terms of the introduction that there usually is an outburst.
For instance...
How long has Meep been on Prozac? My cat is very sensitive to noise as well and I have found this is actually getting a bit better on the Prozac. It seems to be helping that. She has been on it since September.
I’m so sorry to hear this! My situation is similar. My victim cat (my cats are 4 year old littermates by the way) has recently peed in fear too.
My situation has some differences in that my cats are generally fine together in the small amount of time I allow it until something “scary”...
Wow, I could be writing this too. I am in the exact same boat. I am exactly 6 months in after a redirected aggression incident too. My aggressor is also on 5mg Prozac a day. My aggressor has not attacked my victim cat since Sept but I am super paranoid to let them together and all their...
Thank you! I kept their interactions short all weekend. They seemed ok but both were a bit rattled by what happened. I started extending their time together again today. They were actually trilling at each other with the basement door between them today so I let them loose together and they did...
We had a bad day today. They spent 2 hours together totally fine. Sleeping nearby etc and zero drama or staring. Later on I happened to glance at Fiona who had been sleeping at the top of the cat tree and noticed she was wild eyed, puffed up and looking panicked. Ivy had gone to the basement and...
An update for you. A few weeks have gone by and we are still plugging away. Things have been going well.
We can now do about an hour together with me minimally supervising them. I find they do best (or is it me doing best?) when we keep moving. I go from upstairs to downstairs doing chores...