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I’m surprised that none of the clarification stuff I’m finding talks about hallways and stairs - it all mostly focuses on rooms. This makes me wonder if I’m on the right track…
Here’s the situation: it has taken almost a year to get to the point where our new cat csn hang out with our older cat (thanks for all the support on this forum for that). During the stressful times, our territorial older cat was doing a lot of marking around our house including on our stair landings. We now have a litter box on each landing. The cats are mostly getting along now. Some of the catification we’ve done really seems to be helping with this as the new cat goes high. The main continued aggression we’re seeing is when the older cat sees the new one go up the stairs. It triggers a chase behaviour. We believe this is because the staircase is a territorial bottleneck. Our theory is that if we create a cat highway in the staircase, it will give the younger one an alternate route. The stairs, however, aren’t exactly a place where we hang out and there’s no vantage to outside. Some spots have a vantage into the living room.
We were planning to put a bunch of shelves up - is this effort (and destruction of my walls) worth it?
Cheers!
Here’s the situation: it has taken almost a year to get to the point where our new cat csn hang out with our older cat (thanks for all the support on this forum for that). During the stressful times, our territorial older cat was doing a lot of marking around our house including on our stair landings. We now have a litter box on each landing. The cats are mostly getting along now. Some of the catification we’ve done really seems to be helping with this as the new cat goes high. The main continued aggression we’re seeing is when the older cat sees the new one go up the stairs. It triggers a chase behaviour. We believe this is because the staircase is a territorial bottleneck. Our theory is that if we create a cat highway in the staircase, it will give the younger one an alternate route. The stairs, however, aren’t exactly a place where we hang out and there’s no vantage to outside. Some spots have a vantage into the living room.
We were planning to put a bunch of shelves up - is this effort (and destruction of my walls) worth it?
Cheers!