I just moved into my boyfriend's house with my 2 3-year old female torties, Dinah and Willow (spayed) from across country and he has an 8 year old Somalie male, Ollie (neutered). I took the girls straight to a spare room when we arrived and they were digging at the door wanting to get out by the second day. Ollie spent almost every minute sitting outside their door being super curious. I did scent swapping of their beds which seemed successful (Dinah was laying in his bed within hours) and peeks of Ollie through the cracked door and Ollie was chill. 2 days later we did a supervised open door exchange. Dinah is more sociable and, although she did some light hissing and running away she seemed mostly okay with seeing Ollie. Willow however was less than happy - lots of wide-eyed meowing and hissing. It's a two level home so there's lots of space to avoid each other and we're working on catifying the space with wall shelving. The third day we had everyone roaming, moatly avoiding each other but by night time we had an incident. We heard a commotion of Willow all fluffed up, howling and chasing Ollie across the kitchen running scared. Right then I shut it down and put both girls back in their safe room.
I'm beginning the re- introduction process today but I'm struggling to find a way to get the girls not not be aggressive to Ollie and none of them are particularly food/treat or play motivated. I'm so stressed about this
Any good advice on how to continue?
I'm beginning the re- introduction process today but I'm struggling to find a way to get the girls not not be aggressive to Ollie and none of them are particularly food/treat or play motivated. I'm so stressed about this
Any good advice on how to continue?