Hello, friends!
I recently saved a very dehydrated malnourished 1 year-old cat off the street, got her shots and brought her home. We immediately kept her safe and comfortable in our small second room. It was an uphill battle as she wasn't comfortable being touched, although she loved being near people. Over the course of two weeks she became very loving and became comfortable with receiving attention and even began to play. However, she became very aggressive when laying eyes on my two other cats. I began following instruction I found online on how to integrate our cats very slowly. I have been feeding them closer and closer to one another every meal. It's now been 1 month and she is just as aggressive towards the cats as she's ever been.
I would be comfortable being more patient, the only problem is that she's very tired of being cooped up in that small room. She cries all night, because she is lonely and desperately wants to be out of the room and hanging out with myself and my husband. The moment someone goes into her room, she stops crying. She picks and pulls at the door for hours trying to get out and it's very sad to think that she's so unhappy in there. Our apartment is only a 1 bedroom and there isn't anywhere else we can keep her away from my other two cats.
Does anyone have any advice on how to make this integration process more comfortable or more smooth for her? Have you found any techniques to ease cat aggression? This cat is so loving, I just can't understand why she's so angry toward my other two very innocent, sweet loving cats!
I recently saved a very dehydrated malnourished 1 year-old cat off the street, got her shots and brought her home. We immediately kept her safe and comfortable in our small second room. It was an uphill battle as she wasn't comfortable being touched, although she loved being near people. Over the course of two weeks she became very loving and became comfortable with receiving attention and even began to play. However, she became very aggressive when laying eyes on my two other cats. I began following instruction I found online on how to integrate our cats very slowly. I have been feeding them closer and closer to one another every meal. It's now been 1 month and she is just as aggressive towards the cats as she's ever been.
I would be comfortable being more patient, the only problem is that she's very tired of being cooped up in that small room. She cries all night, because she is lonely and desperately wants to be out of the room and hanging out with myself and my husband. The moment someone goes into her room, she stops crying. She picks and pulls at the door for hours trying to get out and it's very sad to think that she's so unhappy in there. Our apartment is only a 1 bedroom and there isn't anywhere else we can keep her away from my other two cats.
Does anyone have any advice on how to make this integration process more comfortable or more smooth for her? Have you found any techniques to ease cat aggression? This cat is so loving, I just can't understand why she's so angry toward my other two very innocent, sweet loving cats!