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Hi everyone, I am new to this group and I apologize if this is already discussed. I have two cats Simon (9) and Alvin (8). I had to take Alvin to emergency vet Saturday, June 24th. He stayed overnight and I brought him home on the 25th. I was definitely unaware of non recognition aggression but I brought Alvin home (he’s completely fine now!!) and just let him out the carrier until I was met with complete horror. Simon hissed and growled. So I did eventually separate them for a few days and fed them on different sides of a bedroom door. I was also scent swapping for a few days. I then let them see each other threw a screen gate. There was generally no hissing so in decided to let them co exist while I was supervising and put some vanilla extract on each of them to help with the introduction. Everything is all fine until the vanilla extract wears off a day or two later then Simon will be laser focuses on Alvin again and walk up and swat at him but not attack. Alvin is very timid and this scares him so he runs and hides. It breaks my heart. My question is how long can I use vanilla extract? It’s been almost 10 days now and I thought Simon would recognize his brother by now. I am so heartbroken over all of this. Any advice on this is appreciated.