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I'm sorry if people are sick of me posting, heck I'm sick of me posting, long story short, we're in month 8 of cat intros and we've moved on to visuals because at this point, it's been 8 months and we've had two behaviorists - one of whom's a vet say it's worth a shot. Long storm short 1.5 year old neutered male and 10 year old female had two tiffs because 1.5 year old male escaped kitty base camp twice (my kitty son is very athletic), behaviorists think it was an age thing - he wants to play she doesn't, etc. etc.
At this point, when we do the blanket neither one has any interest in seeing in the other to the point where she hides and he's under the bed. I've read the CatSite, "How to Successfully Introduce Cats" and "When Cat Intros Go Wrong Articles," I've also gotten some great advice and I do like the idea of ArtNJ's spider analogy/desensitization, I'm just wondering if the blanket method is enough or we need to let them fully see each other, IDK I guess that's why I'm asking? We've been doing it slowly so far, an hour - then two hours, and slowly increasing the time as well as pulling back the blanket, but so far we're on two hours --- maybe I'll be yelled at for being impatient, I'm just trying to figure out how far is too far and how slow is too slow....
At this point, when we do the blanket neither one has any interest in seeing in the other to the point where she hides and he's under the bed. I've read the CatSite, "How to Successfully Introduce Cats" and "When Cat Intros Go Wrong Articles," I've also gotten some great advice and I do like the idea of ArtNJ's spider analogy/desensitization, I'm just wondering if the blanket method is enough or we need to let them fully see each other, IDK I guess that's why I'm asking? We've been doing it slowly so far, an hour - then two hours, and slowly increasing the time as well as pulling back the blanket, but so far we're on two hours --- maybe I'll be yelled at for being impatient, I'm just trying to figure out how far is too far and how slow is too slow....