Hi everyone any advice would be appreciated.
Background is~ I adopted a six year old female siamese who has been locked up in an apartment for six years with no interaction with any other animals. She's been on her own during the day while the owners worked.
So thats when I joined this site to learn how to integrate them properly and followed advice to the tee. I put her in a safe room for a month. Brought her carrier out for my two girls to sniff. Did scent exchange with blankets, brushes, etc for 1st two weeks. The door had very little space under it due to carpet. But my girls knew she was there and "Casper" knew my girls were there. After 4 weeks I started letting her out when my girls were sleeping in our room for another two weeks. Then I would put her on our enclosed deck which has several windows off the house. Casper would attack my girls through the glass. I did this for two or more weeks til the attacks and hissing stopped. Then moved her into our office which has a glass door and a good space under the door. I would feed them on either side of door, I put a carpet runner down that would slide under the door and put catnip on either side of door for all cats to enjoy and very close to each other. This worked quite well.
I then started bringing Casper out on her harness, at first she lunged at Singer (also siamese) we got through that and the two siamese seem to get along. We had one incident during the introduction where casper managed to get in our room and attacked singer. Singer seemed to fight back and so I think casper knows not to tangle with her. So all seemed fine for a few weeks. But now casper is going after my other female. She is a docile girl that doesn't want conflict and is quite small and the youngest at 3 years. Casper has been hunting her down on a daily basis until she finds her corners her and attacks her. Clapping, yelling doesn't stop casper the water bottle does. But once I break it up casper just goes for her again til I can separate into different rooms. These aren't little cat spats they are full fledged fights with Zyra's fur everywhere. Zyra is terrified of her. So we have been letting all 3 cats out together when we are home for limited time. Casper and singer tolerate each other.
Everything seems to be going good, I always make sure I know exactly where casper and zyra are, then all of a sudden out of nowhere casper is on top of zyra and they are flying through the house and zyra is trying escape, the last episode was on sat it took three adults to break the fight up. I have to make sure casper is in her room when we go out and at night. When I have them together casper's eyes are always fixed on zyra I usually have to get between them to shoo casper the other way.
Casper is a sweet girl who has been deprived the attention she deserves, she craves attention.She adjusted to our 80lb lab just fine. I just don't know how to get her to stop hunting zyra down. I really am at my witts end. Any thoughts, ideas or advice would be great. Or should I consider rehoming her to a catless home??
Thanks for reading.
Background is~ I adopted a six year old female siamese who has been locked up in an apartment for six years with no interaction with any other animals. She's been on her own during the day while the owners worked.
So thats when I joined this site to learn how to integrate them properly and followed advice to the tee. I put her in a safe room for a month. Brought her carrier out for my two girls to sniff. Did scent exchange with blankets, brushes, etc for 1st two weeks. The door had very little space under it due to carpet. But my girls knew she was there and "Casper" knew my girls were there. After 4 weeks I started letting her out when my girls were sleeping in our room for another two weeks. Then I would put her on our enclosed deck which has several windows off the house. Casper would attack my girls through the glass. I did this for two or more weeks til the attacks and hissing stopped. Then moved her into our office which has a glass door and a good space under the door. I would feed them on either side of door, I put a carpet runner down that would slide under the door and put catnip on either side of door for all cats to enjoy and very close to each other. This worked quite well.
I then started bringing Casper out on her harness, at first she lunged at Singer (also siamese) we got through that and the two siamese seem to get along. We had one incident during the introduction where casper managed to get in our room and attacked singer. Singer seemed to fight back and so I think casper knows not to tangle with her. So all seemed fine for a few weeks. But now casper is going after my other female. She is a docile girl that doesn't want conflict and is quite small and the youngest at 3 years. Casper has been hunting her down on a daily basis until she finds her corners her and attacks her. Clapping, yelling doesn't stop casper the water bottle does. But once I break it up casper just goes for her again til I can separate into different rooms. These aren't little cat spats they are full fledged fights with Zyra's fur everywhere. Zyra is terrified of her. So we have been letting all 3 cats out together when we are home for limited time. Casper and singer tolerate each other.
Everything seems to be going good, I always make sure I know exactly where casper and zyra are, then all of a sudden out of nowhere casper is on top of zyra and they are flying through the house and zyra is trying escape, the last episode was on sat it took three adults to break the fight up. I have to make sure casper is in her room when we go out and at night. When I have them together casper's eyes are always fixed on zyra I usually have to get between them to shoo casper the other way.
Casper is a sweet girl who has been deprived the attention she deserves, she craves attention.She adjusted to our 80lb lab just fine. I just don't know how to get her to stop hunting zyra down. I really am at my witts end. Any thoughts, ideas or advice would be great. Or should I consider rehoming her to a catless home??
Thanks for reading.