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I kid....sort of. One of our cats is obsessed with attacking the other two.
We acquired our first two female cats, Tortie and Ginger, about 5 years ago. They are semi-feral but bonded with each other. They will allow us to pet them at times, but will not allow being picked up. They are both pretty skittish still.
I was interested in adopting another cat (silly me), and my sister sort of foisted her roommate's cat onto me. This cat's name is Feta, and she's a 2-year old female. She is the opposite of the other kitties in that she is pretty confident around people and doesn't mind being picked up. She joined us about a year ago.
They started out curious about each other when Feta was confined to the upstairs, but it's only gone downhill since we tried letting them see each other. If not separated from the other two cats, she eagerly finds them so that she can attack them. At first it seemed like she wanted to play but had no kitty manners or sense of restraint.
However, now if she manages to get through the door separating them, there is a fight leading to bloodshed. Feta is obsessed with getting to the other cats and attacking them. Strangely enough, Feta seems to get the worst of it. The last fight ended with Ginger's shed claw stuck in Feta's lip, and a scratch on Feta's face. It doesn't seem like Ginger had any damage at all, though it's difficult to know for sure since Ginger won't allow me to examine her thoroughly.
We have a small room with glass-paneled doors that was our sanctuary room for Tortie and Ginger and still kind of is. Feta's favorite activity is playing, which we try to do as much as possible, and this week I managed to play with Tortie in the room with my husband playing with Feta on the other side. We have to constantly try to distract Feta, because all she wants to do is stare down the other cats.
Room swapping is difficult because we can't move Tortie and Ginger without absolutely traumatizing them. So we try to work with the rooms that Tortie and Ginger go to on their own, which is their sanctuary room and our guest bedroom where they hide under the bed. Feta actually has a large area to herself. I would want to somehow get Tortie and Ginger in Feta's area while Feta is in the glass-paneled sanctuary room, but it takes a verrrryy long time for them to get the courage up to go in their and Feta starts pitching a fit because she's confined to the smaller room.
They have all been to the vet and are current on their shots (getting Tortie to the vet is a story for another day). Feta is on Prozac after we had a vet visit to determine if there was a physical reason for Feta's behavior and they found none. We are also using Feliway multi-cat in the central room of our house.
We acquired our first two female cats, Tortie and Ginger, about 5 years ago. They are semi-feral but bonded with each other. They will allow us to pet them at times, but will not allow being picked up. They are both pretty skittish still.
I was interested in adopting another cat (silly me), and my sister sort of foisted her roommate's cat onto me. This cat's name is Feta, and she's a 2-year old female. She is the opposite of the other kitties in that she is pretty confident around people and doesn't mind being picked up. She joined us about a year ago.
They started out curious about each other when Feta was confined to the upstairs, but it's only gone downhill since we tried letting them see each other. If not separated from the other two cats, she eagerly finds them so that she can attack them. At first it seemed like she wanted to play but had no kitty manners or sense of restraint.
However, now if she manages to get through the door separating them, there is a fight leading to bloodshed. Feta is obsessed with getting to the other cats and attacking them. Strangely enough, Feta seems to get the worst of it. The last fight ended with Ginger's shed claw stuck in Feta's lip, and a scratch on Feta's face. It doesn't seem like Ginger had any damage at all, though it's difficult to know for sure since Ginger won't allow me to examine her thoroughly.
We have a small room with glass-paneled doors that was our sanctuary room for Tortie and Ginger and still kind of is. Feta's favorite activity is playing, which we try to do as much as possible, and this week I managed to play with Tortie in the room with my husband playing with Feta on the other side. We have to constantly try to distract Feta, because all she wants to do is stare down the other cats.
Room swapping is difficult because we can't move Tortie and Ginger without absolutely traumatizing them. So we try to work with the rooms that Tortie and Ginger go to on their own, which is their sanctuary room and our guest bedroom where they hide under the bed. Feta actually has a large area to herself. I would want to somehow get Tortie and Ginger in Feta's area while Feta is in the glass-paneled sanctuary room, but it takes a verrrryy long time for them to get the courage up to go in their and Feta starts pitching a fit because she's confined to the smaller room.
They have all been to the vet and are current on their shots (getting Tortie to the vet is a story for another day). Feta is on Prozac after we had a vet visit to determine if there was a physical reason for Feta's behavior and they found none. We are also using Feliway multi-cat in the central room of our house.