I'll give the entire background:
I have had my siamese cat for a year now. When I adopted her, she was already approximately a 1yr+ old. She is very laid back. She loves to just relax. She plays every so often, she's very affectionate, loves to be near mom and dad, right on top of us all the time. When brought to the vet, I don't cage her. She sits in my arms with no complaints. Dogs and other cats come in, she does not hiss, no ears going back, nothing. She's just all around a great cat.
Here's where the trouble starts. My roomate has been itching to follow in my footsteps ever since I adopted my cat. While sitting outside late one night, she sees this cat walking across our lawn. She snatches him up and brings him inside and decides he's hers. As awful as that is, which has caused issues on it's own ( "it's not right" "turn him in" "put up signs" trust me we've been through all this) we have bigger issues now.
Ever since introducing the two cats, the new cat is awful to mine. He corners her and stradels her on her back and bites the living crud out of her neck, back, and recently he's started to bite her knee joint on her hind leg, very hard. He bites her when she's trying to go in her litter box, bites her while she's eating, and bites her while she's sleeping. He bites her 24/7 and yelling at him and everything else you can think of does NOT help. We've tried squirting him, loud noises, he could care less. On top of all this, his two "fang" teeth are unusually large after his previous fell out (which I have never even heard of) and these new ones are HUGE! I've never seen anything like it! Also, he IS neutered. This did not cause him to call down at all.
He also digs away at the carpet (we live in an apartment, so this is great. he does this when I try to lock him in a room to keep them seperated from fighting), digs in our TRASH can and eats stuff out of it, knocks over plants, eats plants, knocks over anything on counter tops...etc.etc.etc. If you pet him, he bites you, if you hold him, he bites you (except his owner of course). I have NEVER seen any of these behaviors from my cat. Not to say my cat is great, but mine is an angel compared to this cat. Especially after I sit and watch him abuse my cat all day long. The thing that perturbs me the most is how my cat handles it. She cowers down, not defending herself at all except for a moan or scream, and runs full speed to me, as in, "save me!"
I came to my wit's end this past weekend when I was just sitting around the apartment and I noticed a big fight between the two. I ran into the living room as I usually do, screaming the other cat's name. He runs away, and my cat is left limping on her left hind leg. She shakes it off in a few minutes, and it sort of lame, but seems better. A couple days later, I notice she is walking fine, but sort of swinging her leg outward when she walks. I go to the kitchen to feed my cat, then feed him (which he always pushes her out of the way and scarfs down her food in two seconds, to which I then have to snatch him up and go feed him in a seperate room) and I noticed as I put down my cat's food, he bites her back hind leg joint (the tiny ball joint) and she screams. Of course, this has to be what's cause her limp. She continues to walk strangely, and hikes her leg out from under her to keep it straight when she's lying down. I call the vet, and I take her in. I also tell other cat's owner, who is less than happy, tells me she's tired of me always complaining about her cat, says "what do you want me to do? get rid of him?" and is just very defensive. Come to find out after the pet visit, she's developed an abscess and infection from his bite. Her joint is swollen. She is in pain, and she has a high fever from the infection. She gets an antibiotic shot, and I'm given oral pain killers to give her this week. Needless to say, I'm TICKED. This is obviously a new spot he's found that really hurts her, and he's not stopping. He's now stopping biting her anywhere else. He now just likes this knee joint. And obviously it's caused me a large vet bill. I spent over a $100 yesterday, and told said roomate. I told her she needed to come pick up the cat (she's been at her parents house the past week and a half, and I've been stuck with this other cat) and when she came, she did not offer to pay me, give me any money, nothing. Maybe I'm being unreasonable, but I feel as though if my cat inflicted an injury on her cat, I would be more than glad to pay the bill.
I cannot afford this vet bill everytime he bites her and punctures her skin. My roomate is uncooperative when I ask her to give him up, or give him to her mom. She said she is not giving him up or away, and that she will do one of two things. Remove his teeth or muzzle him. Both of which are animal cruelty, in my opinion. I am at my wit's end, I am so stressed out, and I'm worried about my cat's health. I have NO idea what to do, I need advice about trying to get her to give him up, or take him somewhere else. I need advice on how to make this other cat stop! Help!
I have had my siamese cat for a year now. When I adopted her, she was already approximately a 1yr+ old. She is very laid back. She loves to just relax. She plays every so often, she's very affectionate, loves to be near mom and dad, right on top of us all the time. When brought to the vet, I don't cage her. She sits in my arms with no complaints. Dogs and other cats come in, she does not hiss, no ears going back, nothing. She's just all around a great cat.
Here's where the trouble starts. My roomate has been itching to follow in my footsteps ever since I adopted my cat. While sitting outside late one night, she sees this cat walking across our lawn. She snatches him up and brings him inside and decides he's hers. As awful as that is, which has caused issues on it's own ( "it's not right" "turn him in" "put up signs" trust me we've been through all this) we have bigger issues now.
Ever since introducing the two cats, the new cat is awful to mine. He corners her and stradels her on her back and bites the living crud out of her neck, back, and recently he's started to bite her knee joint on her hind leg, very hard. He bites her when she's trying to go in her litter box, bites her while she's eating, and bites her while she's sleeping. He bites her 24/7 and yelling at him and everything else you can think of does NOT help. We've tried squirting him, loud noises, he could care less. On top of all this, his two "fang" teeth are unusually large after his previous fell out (which I have never even heard of) and these new ones are HUGE! I've never seen anything like it! Also, he IS neutered. This did not cause him to call down at all.
He also digs away at the carpet (we live in an apartment, so this is great. he does this when I try to lock him in a room to keep them seperated from fighting), digs in our TRASH can and eats stuff out of it, knocks over plants, eats plants, knocks over anything on counter tops...etc.etc.etc. If you pet him, he bites you, if you hold him, he bites you (except his owner of course). I have NEVER seen any of these behaviors from my cat. Not to say my cat is great, but mine is an angel compared to this cat. Especially after I sit and watch him abuse my cat all day long. The thing that perturbs me the most is how my cat handles it. She cowers down, not defending herself at all except for a moan or scream, and runs full speed to me, as in, "save me!"
I came to my wit's end this past weekend when I was just sitting around the apartment and I noticed a big fight between the two. I ran into the living room as I usually do, screaming the other cat's name. He runs away, and my cat is left limping on her left hind leg. She shakes it off in a few minutes, and it sort of lame, but seems better. A couple days later, I notice she is walking fine, but sort of swinging her leg outward when she walks. I go to the kitchen to feed my cat, then feed him (which he always pushes her out of the way and scarfs down her food in two seconds, to which I then have to snatch him up and go feed him in a seperate room) and I noticed as I put down my cat's food, he bites her back hind leg joint (the tiny ball joint) and she screams. Of course, this has to be what's cause her limp. She continues to walk strangely, and hikes her leg out from under her to keep it straight when she's lying down. I call the vet, and I take her in. I also tell other cat's owner, who is less than happy, tells me she's tired of me always complaining about her cat, says "what do you want me to do? get rid of him?" and is just very defensive. Come to find out after the pet visit, she's developed an abscess and infection from his bite. Her joint is swollen. She is in pain, and she has a high fever from the infection. She gets an antibiotic shot, and I'm given oral pain killers to give her this week. Needless to say, I'm TICKED. This is obviously a new spot he's found that really hurts her, and he's not stopping. He's now stopping biting her anywhere else. He now just likes this knee joint. And obviously it's caused me a large vet bill. I spent over a $100 yesterday, and told said roomate. I told her she needed to come pick up the cat (she's been at her parents house the past week and a half, and I've been stuck with this other cat) and when she came, she did not offer to pay me, give me any money, nothing. Maybe I'm being unreasonable, but I feel as though if my cat inflicted an injury on her cat, I would be more than glad to pay the bill.
I cannot afford this vet bill everytime he bites her and punctures her skin. My roomate is uncooperative when I ask her to give him up, or give him to her mom. She said she is not giving him up or away, and that she will do one of two things. Remove his teeth or muzzle him. Both of which are animal cruelty, in my opinion. I am at my wit's end, I am so stressed out, and I'm worried about my cat's health. I have NO idea what to do, I need advice about trying to get her to give him up, or take him somewhere else. I need advice on how to make this other cat stop! Help!