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Hi, We recently took in a foster cat and we already have a cat who is very timid, but great with people. Both cats were declawed by the previous owners.
We did the slow introduction process, we kept the new cat in the bedroom and let the resident cat have full reign of the apartment. She had a few accidents because she was scared and knew he was in the bedroom. We fed them from both sides of the door and we swapped their scents and places after a week and let them see each other through the door. Our resident cat always hissed and ran away.
It's been a month now and we have been letting him out of the bedroom. However, she won't go on the ground to eat or drink or user her litter box. She stays high up and is constantly on the look out for him and is always trembling. Currently he has full reign of the apartment because she will only stay in one spot.
He has attacked her a few times, but she will just run away and never stand her ground. He always chases her when she is on the ground, but when she is high up he will just approach her slowly and try to smell her and when she notices she will hiss and then he runs away. She won't stand up for herself and we tried putting up a doggy gate, to keep them separate but that didn't help either. He just jumps over it.
We are at a loss for what to do now, besides bring him back to the rescue group. We were intending on adopting him if things worked out. We really want to make this work, but nothing seems to help.
We were thinking about taking a few steps back and doing the reintroduction process again, but he has become territorial of the bedroom and we have nowhere else to keep him. We fear that if we keep leaving him in there, that he won't learn to share the room or territories with her.
Any advice is appreciated, thank you!
We did the slow introduction process, we kept the new cat in the bedroom and let the resident cat have full reign of the apartment. She had a few accidents because she was scared and knew he was in the bedroom. We fed them from both sides of the door and we swapped their scents and places after a week and let them see each other through the door. Our resident cat always hissed and ran away.
It's been a month now and we have been letting him out of the bedroom. However, she won't go on the ground to eat or drink or user her litter box. She stays high up and is constantly on the look out for him and is always trembling. Currently he has full reign of the apartment because she will only stay in one spot.
He has attacked her a few times, but she will just run away and never stand her ground. He always chases her when she is on the ground, but when she is high up he will just approach her slowly and try to smell her and when she notices she will hiss and then he runs away. She won't stand up for herself and we tried putting up a doggy gate, to keep them separate but that didn't help either. He just jumps over it.
We are at a loss for what to do now, besides bring him back to the rescue group. We were intending on adopting him if things worked out. We really want to make this work, but nothing seems to help.
We were thinking about taking a few steps back and doing the reintroduction process again, but he has become territorial of the bedroom and we have nowhere else to keep him. We fear that if we keep leaving him in there, that he won't learn to share the room or territories with her.
Any advice is appreciated, thank you!