ok as some of you might know, my two kitties, peanuts and socks, hate each other.
i'm pretty sure when we got socks that socks was willing to be friends with peanuts, but she's had so much kitty hatred towards him that now he doesn't like her at all.
i got tired of having to constantly keep them separated this weekend, and let them loose. for the most part, they did ok, better then they every have. there were a few swipes at each other and tuffs of hair flying, but like i said this is much better then they've ever done! after a few hours i wanted to get on the computer in the basement so i put socks in my room. when i came back upstairs i almost had a heart attack when i saw socks sitting in the middle of my living room floor. he was sitting a few feet away from peanuts, and they actually looked halfway relaxed. then peanuts got up to see me but socks didn't like that so he followed her. peanuts got all defensive, so socks did too. (have i mentioned that socks is twice the size of peanuts??) suddenly this huge fight
broke out, the kind where they're hissing and spitting and rolling all over he floor. i didn't want to stick my foot in there, so i tryed hissing at them, and with that having no effect, i stuck my foot in and pushed socks away while herding him upstairs. when i came back down peanuts was hiding, but sitting in the middle of the floor was her collar!
this terrifies me, because that means socks was going for her throat.
so now im stuck. im not sure if i should let them be together anymore, if they're gonna try and kill each other! but i dont want to keep them separated for the rest of their lives...
any ideas/suggestions/comments on this will be appriciated!
i got tired of having to constantly keep them separated this weekend, and let them loose. for the most part, they did ok, better then they every have. there were a few swipes at each other and tuffs of hair flying, but like i said this is much better then they've ever done! after a few hours i wanted to get on the computer in the basement so i put socks in my room. when i came back upstairs i almost had a heart attack when i saw socks sitting in the middle of my living room floor. he was sitting a few feet away from peanuts, and they actually looked halfway relaxed. then peanuts got up to see me but socks didn't like that so he followed her. peanuts got all defensive, so socks did too. (have i mentioned that socks is twice the size of peanuts??) suddenly this huge fight
so now im stuck. im not sure if i should let them be together anymore, if they're gonna try and kill each other! but i dont want to keep them separated for the rest of their lives...
any ideas/suggestions/comments on this will be appriciated!