Hello and happy Thursday!
We adopted a beautiful 9 month old neutered male cat in early February after losing one of our cats last November. We also have a resident 9 year old neutered male cat. We did the very slow intro process that was extended as our resident cat is a bit skittish, our new boy was found to have a parasitic infection and due to travel commitments, etc... We finally did get them fully together for about a week, but the new guy took to chasing our resident cat and increasingly biting him, and finally ended up in full on cat fight, so now back to the beginning. The vet put our new guy on amitriptyline as he had become very skittish, nervous, pacing, and had developed diarrhea over the blowup between the two. We started the cracked door thing again at the recommended two weeks, and they seem fine, but I am actually afraid that this reintro process could drag out too long and cause more problems. I really think it would have been better to start getting them together a week ago, just gauging their behavior, but am really trying to go with what the behaviorist and vet say. Does anyone out there think that waiting too long to introduce/reintroduce can actually create more problems?
We adopted a beautiful 9 month old neutered male cat in early February after losing one of our cats last November. We also have a resident 9 year old neutered male cat. We did the very slow intro process that was extended as our resident cat is a bit skittish, our new boy was found to have a parasitic infection and due to travel commitments, etc... We finally did get them fully together for about a week, but the new guy took to chasing our resident cat and increasingly biting him, and finally ended up in full on cat fight, so now back to the beginning. The vet put our new guy on amitriptyline as he had become very skittish, nervous, pacing, and had developed diarrhea over the blowup between the two. We started the cracked door thing again at the recommended two weeks, and they seem fine, but I am actually afraid that this reintro process could drag out too long and cause more problems. I really think it would have been better to start getting them together a week ago, just gauging their behavior, but am really trying to go with what the behaviorist and vet say. Does anyone out there think that waiting too long to introduce/reintroduce can actually create more problems?