Giorgio the stray Tomcat who seems to be eating a lot of the food we leave out for Lucia and her kittens. He boldly comes to our glass doors and looks in. Not for a minute and then runs. He lounges out there watching us several times a day for long intervals. I even caught him looking in a window. I put out plenty of food but if the food is gone and it is feeding time he comes up to the door.
I think he is the father of Saffron, maybe. But he is after Lucia to mate again.
The problem:
This is causing problems with my indoor cats.
Seldon my Van marked cat looks identical to Giorgio. From a few feet away he could be him. He just doesn't have the sweet gentle face of my Seldon.
This is freaking Mary out.
I have a sun room that was a big plus when I got this house. All that glass and sunshine! But Giorgio has already inspired me put a drop down curtain on all of the windows except for the door that leads to my garden. He has sprayed here because I can smell it.
Mary stalks around the area, she will sleep then go on patrol looking for him. When she sees him they fight through the glass. Then he runs off. But she seems obsessed with him and seeing him.
Already there was one fight where Seldon ended up with a ripped out nail. I found out that she had a ripped out nail too. Very unlike them.
I thought all of this was over as they were cuddled together on a chair.
As I drift off for a morning snooze I hear a catfight. Growling, hollering, spitting, yelling, the whole nine yards. She had cornered Seldon. She was terrorizing him.
It makes me rather sad to see her attack him. She practically raised him as her own. He was a tiny kitten at the time he came. He came to me from a shelter with pneumonia and I have a special place in my heart for my boy that almost wasn't. I was recovering from yet another bout of cancer and we pulled through together. He is now tip toing around, casing a room before coming in...I put her in a room by herself. He is scared and confused.
The other issue is that I was hoping to trap Giorgio and TNR him but now I don't want him around here yet I know he needs to be neutered. I don't want to deter him from the yard because that could cause Lucia to leave too.
What can I do to ease the tension AND trap him too. How can I my kitties to be a loving family again.
I think he is the father of Saffron, maybe. But he is after Lucia to mate again.
The problem:
This is causing problems with my indoor cats.
Seldon my Van marked cat looks identical to Giorgio. From a few feet away he could be him. He just doesn't have the sweet gentle face of my Seldon.
This is freaking Mary out.
I have a sun room that was a big plus when I got this house. All that glass and sunshine! But Giorgio has already inspired me put a drop down curtain on all of the windows except for the door that leads to my garden. He has sprayed here because I can smell it.
Mary stalks around the area, she will sleep then go on patrol looking for him. When she sees him they fight through the glass. Then he runs off. But she seems obsessed with him and seeing him.
Already there was one fight where Seldon ended up with a ripped out nail. I found out that she had a ripped out nail too. Very unlike them.
I thought all of this was over as they were cuddled together on a chair.
As I drift off for a morning snooze I hear a catfight. Growling, hollering, spitting, yelling, the whole nine yards. She had cornered Seldon. She was terrorizing him.
It makes me rather sad to see her attack him. She practically raised him as her own. He was a tiny kitten at the time he came. He came to me from a shelter with pneumonia and I have a special place in my heart for my boy that almost wasn't. I was recovering from yet another bout of cancer and we pulled through together. He is now tip toing around, casing a room before coming in...I put her in a room by herself. He is scared and confused.
The other issue is that I was hoping to trap Giorgio and TNR him but now I don't want him around here yet I know he needs to be neutered. I don't want to deter him from the yard because that could cause Lucia to leave too.
What can I do to ease the tension AND trap him too. How can I my kitties to be a loving family again.