Hi All,
Please help us, we're so confused. Our cats have suddenly turned aggressive towards each other!
The story is the following. Yesterday a stray walked in front of the window where Soshi was sitting (on the inside) and started to taunt him though the closed window. Soshi of course got territorial and started hissing and growling and behaving all macho.With all the noise Akodo came to see what was going on and something happened that made Akodo run away with Soshi hunting him. They started to fight and Soshi even managed to bite Akodo near his testicles (thankfully he only got a tuft of fur, we checked).
Soshi calmed down pretty fast but now Akodo is incredibly scared. He refuses to be at the same level as Soshi and we had to break up 3 fights yesterday (growling, hissing, claws and hair up... all the bad signs). We separated them for the night but today morning it was the same.
Right now Soshi is locked up in our bedroom because under the bed is his only refuge and Akodo is roaming the house. It breaks my heart to see him so scared, he moves slow and with caution, tenses every time we pet him and is scared to eat if we're close to him. He growls if we try to move him so we've resigned ourselves to just slow petting for now. We did it this way because we want Akodo to be comfortable in his home again, and he sees Soshi as the threat.
the strange thing is that this is not the first time Akodo or Soshi see that stray. Usually Soshi hisses a bit, Akodo runs away and the stray flees. Is the first time they have turned against each other and we don't have a way to keep them looking outside, the window looks to the front of the apartment, so the stray is going to keep appearing.
What we can do??? For now we're going to try a re-introduction process, after Akodo feels safe again, but if that does not work??
Please help!
Please help us, we're so confused. Our cats have suddenly turned aggressive towards each other!
The story is the following. Yesterday a stray walked in front of the window where Soshi was sitting (on the inside) and started to taunt him though the closed window. Soshi of course got territorial and started hissing and growling and behaving all macho.With all the noise Akodo came to see what was going on and something happened that made Akodo run away with Soshi hunting him. They started to fight and Soshi even managed to bite Akodo near his testicles (thankfully he only got a tuft of fur, we checked).
Soshi calmed down pretty fast but now Akodo is incredibly scared. He refuses to be at the same level as Soshi and we had to break up 3 fights yesterday (growling, hissing, claws and hair up... all the bad signs). We separated them for the night but today morning it was the same.
Right now Soshi is locked up in our bedroom because under the bed is his only refuge and Akodo is roaming the house. It breaks my heart to see him so scared, he moves slow and with caution, tenses every time we pet him and is scared to eat if we're close to him. He growls if we try to move him so we've resigned ourselves to just slow petting for now. We did it this way because we want Akodo to be comfortable in his home again, and he sees Soshi as the threat.
the strange thing is that this is not the first time Akodo or Soshi see that stray. Usually Soshi hisses a bit, Akodo runs away and the stray flees. Is the first time they have turned against each other and we don't have a way to keep them looking outside, the window looks to the front of the apartment, so the stray is going to keep appearing.
What we can do??? For now we're going to try a re-introduction process, after Akodo feels safe again, but if that does not work??
Please help!