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I have 2 cats - a little over a year old from different litters, neutered, indoor and fairly well behaved. 2 weeks ago I took for temporary care one more cat - Ex-indoor male cat, around 6-8 months old, not neutered, normally it behaves quite well, if it wasn’t the part that it went into heat while in my care. Of course my two cats did not take lightly on the new cat, especially the female that had constant attention from the new cat. I did my best to keep them separately, with occasional walk around the flat and under my control. So far so good however the problem comes now - in order to keep the new cat calm and fairly happy I tried to give it some extra attention. That does not help much but during the play sessions he is quite sweet.
However its temperament switches very fast. Its tail plays around like a drum even for what I think is unhappiness that my cats don’t let him do as he wish,I bar his way toward an area that is off limits, my cats go near his sand box and so on. I get it, he is trying to establish territory for himself, but I am unable to establish the ground rules with him. The first day when I got him, he attacked me - quite fiercely. He was at a new place, other cats - ok, nothing to worry about. Since then he has attacked me on multiple occasions, unprovoked - no body language suggesting hostility and first time I wasn’t even paying attention to him. Every time it draws blood and I did trim his nails in one of our sweet quality time sessions, so if I hadn’t I suspect that I would have needed to go to the hospital also.
last note - the previous owners had thrown him because he had scratched a 2 years old child. I suspect that he was taken as a playmate for the child but things did not go right. fact that he was thrown shows that he did not have a deep bond with his owner, so his behavior training must have been quite lacking.
So an overview - I know and suspect the reasons for its behavior. Is there anything that I can do? When a new owner turns up, it will be extra stress for him to switch the environment. The new person should not have other pets or children, he needs to be neutered so the bad behavior can be softened. As for the redirected aggression toward people I suspect that anything that stress it will trigger it and will be extremely hard to get rid of.
Any advice or ideas?
I have 2 cats - a little over a year old from different litters, neutered, indoor and fairly well behaved. 2 weeks ago I took for temporary care one more cat - Ex-indoor male cat, around 6-8 months old, not neutered, normally it behaves quite well, if it wasn’t the part that it went into heat while in my care. Of course my two cats did not take lightly on the new cat, especially the female that had constant attention from the new cat. I did my best to keep them separately, with occasional walk around the flat and under my control. So far so good however the problem comes now - in order to keep the new cat calm and fairly happy I tried to give it some extra attention. That does not help much but during the play sessions he is quite sweet.
However its temperament switches very fast. Its tail plays around like a drum even for what I think is unhappiness that my cats don’t let him do as he wish,I bar his way toward an area that is off limits, my cats go near his sand box and so on. I get it, he is trying to establish territory for himself, but I am unable to establish the ground rules with him. The first day when I got him, he attacked me - quite fiercely. He was at a new place, other cats - ok, nothing to worry about. Since then he has attacked me on multiple occasions, unprovoked - no body language suggesting hostility and first time I wasn’t even paying attention to him. Every time it draws blood and I did trim his nails in one of our sweet quality time sessions, so if I hadn’t I suspect that I would have needed to go to the hospital also.
last note - the previous owners had thrown him because he had scratched a 2 years old child. I suspect that he was taken as a playmate for the child but things did not go right. fact that he was thrown shows that he did not have a deep bond with his owner, so his behavior training must have been quite lacking.
So an overview - I know and suspect the reasons for its behavior. Is there anything that I can do? When a new owner turns up, it will be extra stress for him to switch the environment. The new person should not have other pets or children, he needs to be neutered so the bad behavior can be softened. As for the redirected aggression toward people I suspect that anything that stress it will trigger it and will be extremely hard to get rid of.
Any advice or ideas?