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Sigh. Things have gone awry again. Vincent has gotten sick again with tons of crystals in his bladder. Leo and he were doing so well, until the day after the last post. Leo went to play with Vinny and Vinny didn't feel like it and they fought again. Not as dramatic as 6 months ago, fight-wise...

Hi everyone,  I have a 2.5 yr old orange male cat who has bladder crystal issues. This is usually exasperated by stress from our more territorial male in our house, but I suspect he'd have this any way since it seems prominent in orange male cats from what I've heard. My buddy is still at the...

I should mention, Leo figured out how to open his door and Vincent's door! We now have to lock them if one is being left in. Smarties pants!

As I write this, Leo (our more territorial kitty) is up on top of the bookshelf where we placed an old carpet square we were able to get at a home improvement store just by asking of they had some samples they wanted to give away. There's a cat scratcher nearby that he can jump on and then jump...

Update time: it's been a few months, but now we're to the point where my boys can eat their breakfast together in the AM (with minimal swiping from Leo), and then we have structured treat and play time outside of their rooms. I have to keep both their rooms closed off during this time because...

UPDATE: We now have "open door" feeding time and between the crack in the door play time where they can clearly see each other and it's going well. I bought a harness at a local shelter's thrift shop, but it was too small for Leo so I am not ready to try leashing him until I can find one that...

I haven't used the liquid composure, but I've tried the Jackson Galaxy drops. They seemed to work some. The calming collars worked too. I was thinking about trying rescue remedy to see if it worked any better than the Jackson Galaxy drops. Nothing seems to work better than good ole fashioned...

Update: we have been allowing Vincent and Leo to see each other through the baby gates. It's not been perfect but it's also not been bad. They've done some hissing but I think I've been nipping it in the bud some. There's two scenarios: one is when both me and my boyfriend are home one of us...

Here's the new set up. I let vinny out to play for about 20 minutes. I can't really reach the door to close it with this going on so I have a big cardboard piece one of the gates came in to put against the door when I think vinnys had enough. He did hiss at Leo once. He got brave and went up...

I bought two baby gates today from Amazon to put up. I think they arrive Friday, so that starts the new situation in our house. I fed the cats today over by Vincent's door this AM and while they do fine when they are both eating, Leo still kind of looks like he wants to stalk Vincent. It does...

Update: cats have been eating supervised near each other, taking treats and generally doing well with very short frequent supervised visits to each other's rooms and have gone up to several hours supervised in each other's rooms. We hit a snag in the screen door arena. There are none cheap...

Update time again! We have had, what I'm going to call, a huge leap of success in Vinny/Leo world. It seemed small at first, but the more it happens the more I am thinking it's a huge success.  After 2 weeks of room swapping which included both Leo and Vinny spending time in each other's rooms...

Update again: It's been a week since we started letting Vinny spend time in Leo's room without Leo in there. He's done very well. As I type, I'm in this room with him and he's laying on the bed with me. His eyes are closed, he's curled up, he looks calm, comfortable and he's purring.  He went...

It's so nice to be able to give a big update and get encouragement on here. I don't have anyone besides my boyfriend to talk about this with because most people think this is too much work. I mean is it any more work than potty training your puppy or teaching your dog not to chew in your shoes...

Did the same reg above again tonight. Went well 2 x in a row.

Update time:  We've started a sort of faux room swap with the boys. This entails by BF taking Leo into our 'Man cave" room (a spare room that houses our TV and all our media stuff that's right next door to Leo's room which is our spare bedroom) while I stay out in the main part of the house with...

I'm still working on the shelving and once we get that in place we are going to try the wooden screen door approach to re-introduction very slowly. Both of them hate to be cooped up in their respective rooms so we think playing with them through a screen door (my bf and me playing with da bird...

I aka ways thought vinny was a bush dweller but since he's had access to the cat tree he seems like he's comfortable up high and maybe he and Leo fought over that position a little.