Thanks for all the great advice. The vet recommended using the Feliway and keeping him away from the "intruder" cat as much as possible. We had already been doing both but got two more diffusers fo a total of four. Things seem to be settling down a bit. Stormy has not attacked Menuet as...
OK, now we've read that pine trees are dangerous for cats to chew on. As soon as we brought our Douglas Fir in, they thought they had brought a feast. Wife then read that it's toxic (mildly) to cats and that the needles can puncture intestines (I wonder if that isn't the sharper pines like...
Our year old + Tortie, Pumpkin, is incredibly finicky. She mostly seems to prefer wet (and we usually serve either B.G. (before grain) or Nature's Variety; she'll eat the dry (same brands), but begs for the wet. Then, if the wet is not ultra fresh, or the exact temperature she desires, she...
Yes all are fixed and my MIL's male cat is also declawed-ours are not. He (Roscoe) is much larger than our three and I guess seems to them to be very menacing. None of them will play with him and Stormy seems to get harder to deal with when he even senses him in the area. Prior to the older...
Well, yes there has been some stress associated with the move in and adjusting to the personalities involved, although there hasn't been yelling at each other, etc. On the other hand, we recently had some roomers who were here from Nov 2010 to late July 2011 whose presence caused a lot of...
Quick background: We got our first cat, Stormy (male) in August of 2010 (not completely sure, but suspect that it might be a Chartreux, or at least part) ; then we got a female Tortie, Oct 2010 (Pumpkin); finally we got a female Tux, Menuet (Mennie for short). They were all approximately the...