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My partner and I recently moved in together and we both had our own cats.
He’s cat is a male 5 year old and my cat is a female 2.5 year old, they are both similar in size.
we went through the process of a slow introduction and they made good progress with learning each others scents and eventually visually seeing eachother. It took about three weeks to get from hissing and fear to (seemingly) happily cohabitating the same space (they were both free roaming and no more aggression or hissing, but they wouldn’t touch)
My cat was initially very wary and fear aggressive but ended up becoming very curious and playful while my partners cat was initially a little scared but quickly warmed up to her presence. They were sitting next to eachother, walking beside eachother and she would try to play with him under the dresser. As soon as he started to get more confident with her (wasn’t running away and hiding) she became less playful. Neither initiate touching the other and there’s never been a physical fight.
after a few days of them sharing the same space is when they started going backwards. At first she started hissing at him again during the night so we separated them while we slept and let them out during the day.
fast forward two days later and now she is hissing at him constantly again. Every time she sees him she will hiss, every time he walks past her or too close she’ll hiss.
they happily eat close together with no hissing, and will interact with play while the other watches but as soon as she sees him entering her space she will hiss and get angry/ annoyed. They still follow eachother around most of the time they’re together and seem genuinely curious of eachother but she seems to be regressing with the excessive hissing.
When they’re separated by a door they both wait at the door (no hissing) for the other.
He isn’t at all fussed by her and acts as if she weren’t hissing at all, but he is very relaxed and non threatening.
if they accidentally run into each other she will hiss and growl and sometimes even swat at him to get him to back off.
TLDR;
my question is why is this happening? They we’re getting along and being playful and now she won’t stop hissing at him for seemingly no reason. What do I do?
He’s cat is a male 5 year old and my cat is a female 2.5 year old, they are both similar in size.
we went through the process of a slow introduction and they made good progress with learning each others scents and eventually visually seeing eachother. It took about three weeks to get from hissing and fear to (seemingly) happily cohabitating the same space (they were both free roaming and no more aggression or hissing, but they wouldn’t touch)
My cat was initially very wary and fear aggressive but ended up becoming very curious and playful while my partners cat was initially a little scared but quickly warmed up to her presence. They were sitting next to eachother, walking beside eachother and she would try to play with him under the dresser. As soon as he started to get more confident with her (wasn’t running away and hiding) she became less playful. Neither initiate touching the other and there’s never been a physical fight.
after a few days of them sharing the same space is when they started going backwards. At first she started hissing at him again during the night so we separated them while we slept and let them out during the day.
fast forward two days later and now she is hissing at him constantly again. Every time she sees him she will hiss, every time he walks past her or too close she’ll hiss.
they happily eat close together with no hissing, and will interact with play while the other watches but as soon as she sees him entering her space she will hiss and get angry/ annoyed. They still follow eachother around most of the time they’re together and seem genuinely curious of eachother but she seems to be regressing with the excessive hissing.
When they’re separated by a door they both wait at the door (no hissing) for the other.
He isn’t at all fussed by her and acts as if she weren’t hissing at all, but he is very relaxed and non threatening.
if they accidentally run into each other she will hiss and growl and sometimes even swat at him to get him to back off.
TLDR;
my question is why is this happening? They we’re getting along and being playful and now she won’t stop hissing at him for seemingly no reason. What do I do?