Hello everyone,
So lately i moved to a new location with my girlfriend and her 2 years old male cat(Guigui).
After few weeks, waiting for him to be comfortable with his new home, we decided to adopt a new cat to broad him a new friend. Indeed, her cat used to live with a dog and was never alone, which is different now and we were worried that he would feel alone now.
So we headed to an animal shelter and we adopted a 5 years old female(Mimo) who just got sterilized. A thing to know is that we have a location with open rooms so hard to separate the 2 cats at the beginning but people from shelter told us it was not a problem ...
So as expected the male cat started to growl at the new coming cat for few days, resulting her to stay hide from us during few days.
Thing is, now Mimo is totally dominating Guigui, she just come with us on the couch and if Guigui comes, she meow at him and attack him, same for others situations when she attack him freely.
Now Guigui is isolating himself, he never come with us anymore. We tried to lock out Mimo in the bathroom for few minutes to let Guigui calm down and let him feel safe with us, but he just stayed behind the door of the bathroom waiting for Mimo.
We are a little bit lost, we don't want to bring Mimo back to the shelter but we are worried about Guigui being so scared since Mimo arrived in our home.
If you have any advice we are ready to do anything to make them happy.
Thank you for your time
So lately i moved to a new location with my girlfriend and her 2 years old male cat(Guigui).
After few weeks, waiting for him to be comfortable with his new home, we decided to adopt a new cat to broad him a new friend. Indeed, her cat used to live with a dog and was never alone, which is different now and we were worried that he would feel alone now.
So we headed to an animal shelter and we adopted a 5 years old female(Mimo) who just got sterilized. A thing to know is that we have a location with open rooms so hard to separate the 2 cats at the beginning but people from shelter told us it was not a problem ...
So as expected the male cat started to growl at the new coming cat for few days, resulting her to stay hide from us during few days.
Thing is, now Mimo is totally dominating Guigui, she just come with us on the couch and if Guigui comes, she meow at him and attack him, same for others situations when she attack him freely.
Now Guigui is isolating himself, he never come with us anymore. We tried to lock out Mimo in the bathroom for few minutes to let Guigui calm down and let him feel safe with us, but he just stayed behind the door of the bathroom waiting for Mimo.
We are a little bit lost, we don't want to bring Mimo back to the shelter but we are worried about Guigui being so scared since Mimo arrived in our home.
If you have any advice we are ready to do anything to make them happy.
Thank you for your time