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    Reintroduction with cats - moving forward

    We’ve got a new video! Things look pretty good like this. We had to give white cat a break because he gets poop zoomies and was racing around yowling - tabby was weirded out lol. On weekends we are working on several hour long sessions a day like this, where we just chill and hang out as normal...
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    Reintroduction with cats - moving forward

    Thanks for the photos! I understand now that the staring is natural and to let them be cats more. I don't understand cats (I'm a dog person, lol), so it helps to learn more about them.
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    Reintroduction with cats - moving forward

    When do you determine when we can move forward to in-room introductions? When they can be comfortable around each other after an hour? It seems like it always takes them a bit of time to get adjusted and then they'll do their own thing on the opposite side of the gate. I just don't know how to...
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    Reintroduction with cats - moving forward

    That’s some good advice. I think when we do feedings we’ll just walk away and let them do their thing. Tossing treats is a little tough because they will pounce on them and spook each other.
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    Reintroduction with cats - moving forward

    Here is a video of the staring. He will go on like this for minutes at a time.
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    Reintroduction with cats - moving forward

    Yes this was a particularly good session with hardly any staring!! Just the first video I could get. There generally is though, I figured he was a mix of cautious/curious and that's way better than some of what I read, with hissing and growling and such.
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    Reintroduction with cats - moving forward

    Great advice here! I like the cat TV idea. Yes we usually always give dry food and hard treats in feeder toys. One of them likes the feeder toys more than the other, but they will both use them. They are both on prozac and the tabby is also on lorazapam, so I believe it's helped with his anxiety...
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    Reintroduction with cats - moving forward

    From what I remember when it was happening, it did make white cat nervous and tabby would wrestle him and I know white cat didn’t like it. No crying or screaming or ugly cat noises but it didn’t usually last long. He was pursuing him quite a bit, enough for us to be uncomfortable with them being...
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    Reintroduction with cats - moving forward

    Thanks for your response! The white one is about 9, the tabby 7. This was a good interaction between them and really right now the only way it gets “worse” is the tabby stares intently/will sometimes paw at the white cat. The pawing doesn’t seem aggressive, but it does scare the white one a...
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    Reintroduction with cats - moving forward

    Yea! We got a video today. Although no staring or swatting today! I would say this is a great video but I’d love other opinions
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    Reintroduction with cats - moving forward

    Hello, we are in the midst of a reintroduction of our cats after a redirected aggression incident. We are at a point now where we've got a wire gate up and we let them see each other for about 30-45 minutes in the evening during mealtime. However, the aggressor cat won't stop STARING. We feed...
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    A year into two females not getting along—feeling defeated

    How are these kitties doing now, two months later?
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    Jackson Galaxy’s “Eat, Play, Love”

    Hi all, we are reintroducing our cats together again and are almost at the “eat, play, love” stage of Jackson galaxy‘s introduction process. My husband and I are pretty nervous. They’ve been separated a long time and we don’t want things to go wrong. I know we are supposed to separate them in...
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    Reintroduction, 3 years later...

    Hi all. I'll keep this as short as I can, but my cats had a redirected aggression incident 3 years ago now that has altered our lives. This wasn't our first one, and we had resolved it several times before. They have been separated since this last incident in September 2020. For awhile, we did...
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