Recent Content by mluwong

Thank you for all of your help! I will do that with moving the food bowls slowly closer to the door. I had moved them far apart after they wouldn't approach the bowls so close to the door and I never tried to slowly move them back close again. I just skipped right to putting the new cat in the...

What does that mean? It's not time to start visual contact until they stop hissing at each other through the door? And I decided just to board the new cat in a kennel when we go on vacation because I don't want to have to worry about it. I hope all the effort will be worth it in the end.

So, after speaking to the vet, she said the medication was worth a try, so the new cat has his appointment at the beginning of July, and I'm actually going to completely cut off any visual introductions with my other cats until August, because we have a two-week summer vacation coming up and I...

Hi, thank you for the most recent reply about the visual introductions possibly being rushed, so I will consider the option of just completely cutting off visual contact for a while and rubbing them with vanilla and letting them swap scents before trying again. It's not an easy decision as to...

Hi, thank you both for your replies. I did leave a message with my vet's office about possibly putting the new cat on medication, but when they call back I think I will have a discussion about whether this whole endeavor is worth pursuing, because I don't want to further compromise the safety of...

Hi, we took a stray cat off the streets about eight weeks ago, who had been getting into fights outside with my original cat. We already had two cats at this point, an adult male that I had gotten as a kitten from someone giving him away, and an adult female that we took in as a stray. They are...