Ok, I'll try and make this short! ha.
My parents have two cats who are a little over a year old now, siblings, male and female. Spayed/neutered around 6/7 months old. The male is VERY high strung- super territorial, active, and I swear he has the cat version of ADHD (seriously). He's very sweet, too, but nuts. lol.
My kids and I have been around these kittens since they were brought home, they know us well. Even stayed at my house a week when my mom had surgery at some point. We've always had a great relationship with them, even though they are crazy active and not the biggest snugglers.
Anyway... so we are visiting my parents extra house (was my grandparents house), which the cats have been here with them for a month, just fine.
But when we showed up, the male cat got crazy. He KNOWS us, and he rubs against us with his happy tail, but then immediately HISSES and growls and darn near attacks us. He goes into the room we are staying in and just starts attacking the pillows, clothing, etc, anything that smells like our house.
So I *know* he's smelling my cats on our stuff (we now have 6), and he's extremely territorial, so he is *convinced* there are other cats here and he cannot handle it. He is just out of his mind, attacking everything, growling, hissing, even at his sister (who couldn't care less, she's happy we are here).
It's so bad it's to the point I'm afraid he's going to hurt one of my kids, so we have the cats just in a room by themselves, which I hate. He just cannot handle the smell of our cats on us.
We have a Feliway plug in for him, but it doesn't seem to help. He is just going crazy at the smell of us. I know it's not healthy for him to be so anxious all the time and my mom is really worried. As I said before, he is a *very* high strung cat anyway, but this is crazy. He knows us, he loves us, but he cannot wrap his head around it all. Soooooo territorial.
We are not cat novices, but I'm reaching out for any extra helpful ideas, just in case. We still have like 8 more days here, and I don't want him living with such high aggression like this. Not good for him, not good for my mom either!!
ANY suggestions?! I feel SO bad for him (and mom!).
My parents have two cats who are a little over a year old now, siblings, male and female. Spayed/neutered around 6/7 months old. The male is VERY high strung- super territorial, active, and I swear he has the cat version of ADHD (seriously). He's very sweet, too, but nuts. lol.
My kids and I have been around these kittens since they were brought home, they know us well. Even stayed at my house a week when my mom had surgery at some point. We've always had a great relationship with them, even though they are crazy active and not the biggest snugglers.
Anyway... so we are visiting my parents extra house (was my grandparents house), which the cats have been here with them for a month, just fine.
But when we showed up, the male cat got crazy. He KNOWS us, and he rubs against us with his happy tail, but then immediately HISSES and growls and darn near attacks us. He goes into the room we are staying in and just starts attacking the pillows, clothing, etc, anything that smells like our house.
So I *know* he's smelling my cats on our stuff (we now have 6), and he's extremely territorial, so he is *convinced* there are other cats here and he cannot handle it. He is just out of his mind, attacking everything, growling, hissing, even at his sister (who couldn't care less, she's happy we are here).
It's so bad it's to the point I'm afraid he's going to hurt one of my kids, so we have the cats just in a room by themselves, which I hate. He just cannot handle the smell of our cats on us.
We have a Feliway plug in for him, but it doesn't seem to help. He is just going crazy at the smell of us. I know it's not healthy for him to be so anxious all the time and my mom is really worried. As I said before, he is a *very* high strung cat anyway, but this is crazy. He knows us, he loves us, but he cannot wrap his head around it all. Soooooo territorial.
We are not cat novices, but I'm reaching out for any extra helpful ideas, just in case. We still have like 8 more days here, and I don't want him living with such high aggression like this. Not good for him, not good for my mom either!!
ANY suggestions?! I feel SO bad for him (and mom!).
