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Hi everyone, I hope you take time to read this, I’m desperate
I currently have 4 cats and a dog. They mostly get along, 2 of the cats are friends and the rest have preferences over members of the family, with the older one being the alpha of them all.
Around a month ago, I found a wounded cat bleeding on the street. After multiple vet visits, he fully recovered. We got him neutered and since he was around 3 y.o., no one seemed to be willing to adopt him, so we decided to keep him.
The thing is, he’s extremely shy. Once he was able to stand up, he runs away from anyone he sees, and meows constantly. We kept him in a separate room to keep him safe while he recovered and got used to the hoyse and progressively made supervised exists throughout the house. A few weeks ago he started harrasing on my cats, ending up in a huge fight with the alpha.
I was told that after this behaviour, it was best to catch and put him in a crate or something to teach him that attacking the other cats was a no go, but since he’s impossible to catch and super slippery and fast, this hardly every works.
Today he attacked the alpha again, poor guy even peed out of fear and lost tons of fur. My family is fed up, they say he will definitely not adapt and maybe we should leave him back where we found him.
Is it possible to do something? Is he utterly a feral cat and will never be ok here? Whenever he’s on our yard or he’s in a closed small room he acts like a domestic cat, rubbing agains our legs and such. Otherwise, completely different.
He’s been neutered for around 15 days now, but I’ve been told that since he’s aprox. 3 there won’t be much behavior changes after neutering
Thank you all for your time.
I currently have 4 cats and a dog. They mostly get along, 2 of the cats are friends and the rest have preferences over members of the family, with the older one being the alpha of them all.
Around a month ago, I found a wounded cat bleeding on the street. After multiple vet visits, he fully recovered. We got him neutered and since he was around 3 y.o., no one seemed to be willing to adopt him, so we decided to keep him.
The thing is, he’s extremely shy. Once he was able to stand up, he runs away from anyone he sees, and meows constantly. We kept him in a separate room to keep him safe while he recovered and got used to the hoyse and progressively made supervised exists throughout the house. A few weeks ago he started harrasing on my cats, ending up in a huge fight with the alpha.
I was told that after this behaviour, it was best to catch and put him in a crate or something to teach him that attacking the other cats was a no go, but since he’s impossible to catch and super slippery and fast, this hardly every works.
Today he attacked the alpha again, poor guy even peed out of fear and lost tons of fur. My family is fed up, they say he will definitely not adapt and maybe we should leave him back where we found him.
Is it possible to do something? Is he utterly a feral cat and will never be ok here? Whenever he’s on our yard or he’s in a closed small room he acts like a domestic cat, rubbing agains our legs and such. Otherwise, completely different.
He’s been neutered for around 15 days now, but I’ve been told that since he’s aprox. 3 there won’t be much behavior changes after neutering
Thank you all for your time.