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You all are an awesome community who totally gets it and are so helpful. So glad to find you all. :)

*hug* Thank you for this... he would be 100% happy and we would too, if we were an one-cat household.

Another update: So we've tried integration starting with smells, seeing each other in a safe capacity, and last night we waited until the problem child was laying down on the couch, calm and happy, and then let our elderly cat out to roam with one of us standing guard for his safety. The...

Just wanted to share an update so far. It's been a few days of him being strictly inside, both cats with their own space, and letting them use the common area at separate times and so far the problem cat has been much calmer. He's asked to go out a dozen times, but his anxiety seems to be...

That makes sense to do and that's what we're doing now. How long should this go on for though? It's a bit difficult to keep them separate forever.

Here's a question about integrating him; our only other indoor cat is old (almost 17) and absolutely terrified of him. How can we even try to integrate them when he immediately runs away and isn't food motivated enough to even eat with him with a door separating them?

This is all such great information everyone. I'm reading it all and soaking it up and will follow up with questions. <3

Not sure what to do here. We have a stray cat who adopted us back in December and we got him neutered immediately. He is close to a year old now and lives inside at night and goes out during the day to give our inside cats (and us) a break from him. He asks to go out so it's not like we kick...