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I have had Cheetah 14 years. I have had Omypaw 3 years. They were slowly introduced over a span of about 3 to 4 months.
Cheetah is about 7lbs with health issues snd Omypaw is a robust 12 lbs. Omypaw is about 3 to 4 years old. He was a stray. Friendly and outgoing. No fear of anything. Extremely territorial if he sees a cat out side.
Cheetah was many generations feral, living in the mountains. Trapped down a dried up well for 3 days before I got her 14 years ago. She was 4 months old at the time. Cheetah is happy and friendly with me and my significant other, but if someone comes over, you won’t see her. If I walk by her when she is eating, she bolts. This is just her. She is a fearful reactive cat. Although considering how feral she was, she is great.
Two totally opposite cats. Omypaw started chasing Cheetah, and Cheetah started hiding. In Omypaws defense, he thought she is the best squeaky toy ever. Cheetah get terrified and runs for her life. Distracting Omypaw with a toy was working well, but it’s hard to always be ready to distract and it does nothing for Cheetah’s confidence.
I started playing Cat TV for them on my laptop. It took a while for me to find some they liked. I have to turn the laptop upside down so they don’t step in the keys.
This has caused Cheetah to have much more confidence and Omypaw to realize he can exist without chasing her. They now can be very close to each other without any problems. Omypaw did push the envelope a bit yesterday when he saw her watching and came up to say hi with a sniff and she swatted, just once, claws in and went right back to watching the screen. He respectfully walked around to the other side and watched.
I have always known it was a good thing to have cats play together, but this is working even better. It’s not really Omypaw, but Cheetahs behavior that has changed with more confidence and Omypaw just reacts to that.
Cheetah is about 7lbs with health issues snd Omypaw is a robust 12 lbs. Omypaw is about 3 to 4 years old. He was a stray. Friendly and outgoing. No fear of anything. Extremely territorial if he sees a cat out side.
Cheetah was many generations feral, living in the mountains. Trapped down a dried up well for 3 days before I got her 14 years ago. She was 4 months old at the time. Cheetah is happy and friendly with me and my significant other, but if someone comes over, you won’t see her. If I walk by her when she is eating, she bolts. This is just her. She is a fearful reactive cat. Although considering how feral she was, she is great.
Two totally opposite cats. Omypaw started chasing Cheetah, and Cheetah started hiding. In Omypaws defense, he thought she is the best squeaky toy ever. Cheetah get terrified and runs for her life. Distracting Omypaw with a toy was working well, but it’s hard to always be ready to distract and it does nothing for Cheetah’s confidence.
I started playing Cat TV for them on my laptop. It took a while for me to find some they liked. I have to turn the laptop upside down so they don’t step in the keys.
This has caused Cheetah to have much more confidence and Omypaw to realize he can exist without chasing her. They now can be very close to each other without any problems. Omypaw did push the envelope a bit yesterday when he saw her watching and came up to say hi with a sniff and she swatted, just once, claws in and went right back to watching the screen. He respectfully walked around to the other side and watched.
I have always known it was a good thing to have cats play together, but this is working even better. It’s not really Omypaw, but Cheetahs behavior that has changed with more confidence and Omypaw just reacts to that.
