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Hi everyone!
I have 3 cats, a tuxedo named Thomas who is about 7 mos., a Mau named Cleo that is one year old, and a calico/Siamese ragdoll named Jinx, who is around 8 years old, who I've had since I was in middle school.
Jinx has behavioural problems of her own, but what I really need help with is Thomas and Cleo. (For the record, both are fixed.)
Cleo is a very strong, agile cat, especially for her relatively small size (she weighs half as much as Jinx), and can climb up doors and windows, and can jump 4ft vertically. What I'm trying to say is that she's the most 'wild' and athletic cat I've had. One thing about her that I love is that she adores people. She sleeps on me every night, and loves to be petted. She has never bitten anyone in the house, not even as play. She only plays with her toys, and loves to chase them around the house. She is the sweetest cat when she's around people, even strangers, and can always be found curled up next to someone.
Thomas is a little different. He's not as sleek and fast and Cleo, but still likes to play and run around the house, of course. He is okay with people, but he has a habit of using people's hands as chew toys - and he bites and scratches hard. He is slowly becoming more gentle, though. He's a very spoiled little fluff ball, honestly. He even gets escorted through the house in someone's arms. But we have a reason for that - he and Cleo CANNOT be in the same room. When we take Thomas upstairs at night, we have to carry him there. When he's in the front room, all the doors have to be latched, and one even has to be barricaded because Cleo knows how to open that door. When Thomas goes upstairs for the night, the doors to that room also have to be at least latched (one has a hook-and-eye on it too) so she can't push them open. When Thomas is upstairs or in the front room Cleo can roam the house, but it's not uncommon for her to sit in front of the glass door and watch Thomas, with these huge eyes..it's actually a little weird. She also does this upstairs. But there is a reason we have to have this system.
Cleo hates Thomas. The very first time she saw him she went after him, and to this day she continues to wait for the opportunity to go after him. (This has been going on for months.) But here's the problem:
She is NOT 'playing' or 'roughhousing'. Cleo is practically a bobcat compared to him. She is much stronger and faster, and she knows how to use her claws. She lunges after him in the blink of an eye and she tears him up. She rips his fur out - after any 'incidents' there is black fur from our little tux everywhere in huge tufts. She attacks him with her whole body to pin him down, he can't escape until someone breaks it up. Thomas will generally hide for a little bit afterwards. When he comes out, he has big patches of fur missing, and often in those areas there are very large and actually pretty deep gashes. One time his eye was swollen shut for a week, and another time Cleo knocked him back so hard that he fractured his pelvis.
I do not understand this at all. Cleo does not act this way towards any other cat or person. It makes no sense to me. As long as she isn't attacking Thomas (which happens maybe twice a month - we've become quite vigilant), she is the least aggressive being I've ever seen. Amazingly well behaved, and very loving. Again, she doesn't attack other cats, like Jinx, or my grandmother's cat, Andy.
Please, someone help me. He was attacked again today. I don't know what to do.
I have 3 cats, a tuxedo named Thomas who is about 7 mos., a Mau named Cleo that is one year old, and a calico/Siamese ragdoll named Jinx, who is around 8 years old, who I've had since I was in middle school.
Jinx has behavioural problems of her own, but what I really need help with is Thomas and Cleo. (For the record, both are fixed.)
Cleo is a very strong, agile cat, especially for her relatively small size (she weighs half as much as Jinx), and can climb up doors and windows, and can jump 4ft vertically. What I'm trying to say is that she's the most 'wild' and athletic cat I've had. One thing about her that I love is that she adores people. She sleeps on me every night, and loves to be petted. She has never bitten anyone in the house, not even as play. She only plays with her toys, and loves to chase them around the house. She is the sweetest cat when she's around people, even strangers, and can always be found curled up next to someone.
Thomas is a little different. He's not as sleek and fast and Cleo, but still likes to play and run around the house, of course. He is okay with people, but he has a habit of using people's hands as chew toys - and he bites and scratches hard. He is slowly becoming more gentle, though. He's a very spoiled little fluff ball, honestly. He even gets escorted through the house in someone's arms. But we have a reason for that - he and Cleo CANNOT be in the same room. When we take Thomas upstairs at night, we have to carry him there. When he's in the front room, all the doors have to be latched, and one even has to be barricaded because Cleo knows how to open that door. When Thomas goes upstairs for the night, the doors to that room also have to be at least latched (one has a hook-and-eye on it too) so she can't push them open. When Thomas is upstairs or in the front room Cleo can roam the house, but it's not uncommon for her to sit in front of the glass door and watch Thomas, with these huge eyes..it's actually a little weird. She also does this upstairs. But there is a reason we have to have this system.
Cleo hates Thomas. The very first time she saw him she went after him, and to this day she continues to wait for the opportunity to go after him. (This has been going on for months.) But here's the problem:
She is NOT 'playing' or 'roughhousing'. Cleo is practically a bobcat compared to him. She is much stronger and faster, and she knows how to use her claws. She lunges after him in the blink of an eye and she tears him up. She rips his fur out - after any 'incidents' there is black fur from our little tux everywhere in huge tufts. She attacks him with her whole body to pin him down, he can't escape until someone breaks it up. Thomas will generally hide for a little bit afterwards. When he comes out, he has big patches of fur missing, and often in those areas there are very large and actually pretty deep gashes. One time his eye was swollen shut for a week, and another time Cleo knocked him back so hard that he fractured his pelvis.
I do not understand this at all. Cleo does not act this way towards any other cat or person. It makes no sense to me. As long as she isn't attacking Thomas (which happens maybe twice a month - we've become quite vigilant), she is the least aggressive being I've ever seen. Amazingly well behaved, and very loving. Again, she doesn't attack other cats, like Jinx, or my grandmother's cat, Andy.
Please, someone help me. He was attacked again today. I don't know what to do.
) Some of them don't get the opportunity because they charge at the cats in the cages, and I imagine they'd do some damage if given the chance!
