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I actually have never watched whole eps of the show b/c animal planet is expensive to get up in Canada so I’ve only seen YouTube clips. His YouTube channel mostly harps on play.

Thanks for responding! Let me see if I can answer your questions. So yes, if the younger cat is lounging on the stairs, the older cat generally isn't too concerned. It's when she is going up the stairs, particularly running up the stairs, that a chase sometimes happens. Historically, these...

Not sure I completely understand, but I think what you're suggesting is what I was planning - a couple shelves as 'steps' up to some lounge spots higher on the wall above the stairs and then a few more sort of level shelves to take them back to ground level on the upper story. Also maybe a...

:D I super appreciate this POV. We have noticed an increased 'Mojo' in our new cat since putting up some cat shelves, but the level of 'catification' that Jackson Galaxy recommends would require a serious rethink of our whole house. I do want to try and provide alternative routes that have...

Thanks for the response! The idea would be that if the cats have multiple options, they wouldn’t compete as much for the stair space. I got the idea from a My Cat from Hell episode where the hallway was highly contested territory by two cats that weren’t getting along. Jackson Galaxy...

I’m surprised that none of the clarification stuff I’m finding talks about hallways and stairs - it all mostly focuses on rooms. This makes me wonder if I’m on the right track… Here’s the situation: it has taken almost a year to get to the point where our new cat csn hang out with our older cat...

Thanks! I have already read all these articles; they're part of how I found this forum. They are really helpful and encouraging, but it's hard to imagine that this is ever going to work. At this point, I have trouble remembering a time when I wasn't cleaning up cat pee every morning. I'm about...

For some additional context, we did start with scent swapping and progressed to site swapping because it didn't feel fair to keep the kitten locked in a tiny room. We progressed to introductions because Cinder was not showing signs of aggression at the door or through the gate and we were making...

Thanks. We have found most of these tips and have been doing these things, so it sounds like the issue is mainly just that we've been doing too much too quickly, even though we thought we were going quite slow (it's been 3 months and we've been trying to ramp up slowly). It seems like maybe our...

Thanks. I had already been reading this forum a lot before I decided to sign up and post. I have spent hours and hours reading cat behaviour advice over the last few months and will continue to do so. There is a lot of feedback in here about all the things we've done wrong, which is great. I...

We have two 7-year old female cats who are sisters, Cinder and Noire. Recently, a friend found a stray kitten and really wanted someone she knew to take her in. We've been thinking of getting a kitten for a while so that if something happens to one of our cats, our other cat will still have a...