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It can be so hard to tell with cats ... keep trying ... I'm on month 11 (ish) of trying to get my cats to be civil and we all had a cuddle on the couch last night for the first time! I have never had both cats on my lap together and then last night we had a full night of actual sleep with both...

Definitely worth a shot, especially when I start leaving them out together when I'm at work and they're home to manage their relationship on their own ... For now, I've been separating them but I do want to start leaving them together soon ... they'll have to learn to cohabit at some point!

Quick update ... After that one night of waking up to a surprise cat-attack and I kicked Journey (the brown one) out of the room, things have been better. This is all three of us cuddling on the couch last night. I didn't let Journey into the room the night following the surprise attack...

Nothing really seems to help but I haven't tried calming music. They're so weird. Some days they are fine to share space ... other days the first cat just harasses the second. For the most part, when I am around, I can manage their interactions. I've been wary of leaving them out together when...

Domestic short hair spotted tabby ... not likely any bengal there. This looks like a pretty normal tabby coat pattern from what I can see.

Agree with Lutece. Breeding situations are all really different. I got my one retired breeder from a woman who had 8 cats piled into a tiny duplex. She was getting rid of my cat (Journey) because Journey couldn't deal with the crowding and was apparently getting beat up. Now I've had her for a...

Wow ... I guess my cats are heavily abused then ... I rarely call them by their names ... more often I refer to them as things like "dummkopf" or "dough brain" or ... when they're getting particularly on my nerves ... less innocent things (various curse words) ... I work in construction and have...

I have 3 and yes, they're in different locations. One in the dining room, one in my spare bedroom and one in my main bedroom. Doesn't change anything. They both want to use this one specific box that is identical to the other box ... the third box is a little smaller than the others but has the...

@ArtNJ - I've posted a couple times about my cats so I'll post links to my other threads so you can get up to speed on the "saga" Two Bengals Hate Each Other ... Cat Reintroduction Tips and Tricks for Managing High Prey Drive

I guess I'm just hyper vigilant because they have a history of getting into a fair amount of fur-flying, scab-leaving fights. They are doing SO well now and have been getting along really great compared to what they used to be like but ... I am really worried I will come home one day to...

Hey. As I've moved (slowly) through this, latest reintroduction I've seen incredible improvement in the way my two bengals interact with each other. They have gotten to a point where, when I play with Journey (the "resident" cat and also, generally, the troublemaker) Belle actually joins in (in...

I've been making an extra effort to make sure I play with Journey lots and it really seems to help. There's even been a couple instances where Belle seems to want to join in! She's still a little tentative but she will often have a couple zoomie runs while Journey is playing and Journey stays...

Genius! I'll have to try it ... although I don't get news papers ... I'll have to stop and get some of the free ones. I did find out yesterday that Journey will absolutely run all the way up and down the hallway across the length of my house to get Da'bird so we had a nice 20 minute play session...

They do both have cat trees to watch the birds in the trees out the window. It's definitely not enough for Journey. She needs real, active, running her brains out, play time. I will try a puzzle feeder but I'm afraid the only treats Journey would actually think to sniff out would be too smelly...

LOL Danteshuman. I was so confused for a minute because here, it's pretty well winter already and certainly too cold to be able to count on being able to gallivant outside ... but you're from California, so now it makes sense. I'm in Calgary ... it's cold here in October! I think my heating bill...

All great suggestions. Thank you! It does seem that I am able to distract Journey when she's in "pounce/hunt" mode. I successfully distracted her with Da' bird a few times. A little RC car would actually be great! I'll have to try that. She really does love to play and gets herself all riled...

Hey guys. As I've been going through a lengthy reintroduction process with my cats, I feel I have noticed a real pattern. I only let them both out together when I am around to supervise. I have noticed that, as long as they're both calm, neither has a problem with the other. They pass each...

For my cat, the vet suggested either Fluoxetine (Prozac) or Clomipramine (Clomicalm). The Prozac addresses the anxiety but my cat had a weird reaction to it where it turned her fear off entirely. She got really aggressive as a result. I don't think that's a very common response, but it isn't...

If the vet has no qualms about putting your cat under anesthesia, I'd trust them and do it now, when you can save a couple hundred bucks. Cat dental work is expensive and better to do it now rather than later, when a big problem crops up.

You're right. Those things alone do not indicate bengal. I only mention them as part of a list of possible indicators. You can certainly have tabbies with belly spots but if they have white, probably not a bengal. Maybe you have a cat that has "ticking" and belly spots but not any of the other...