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Hi everyone,
About 3 months ago my husband and I adopted a 2 year old male (C) and a 4 year old female (B). The shelter told us they already knew each other and got along, but come to find out later, that wasn't true. They had been in the same room there for a day.
Now, since we thought they were already comfortable with one another, we didn't keep them seperated or do an introduction. It was fine for a while, but by the end of the 3 months C was becoming very aggressive with B. He kept pouncing on her and attacking her and stalking her and chasing her out of whatever room we were in.
We decided we needed to do a reintroduction, but we've never done one and we live in a 2 bedroom apartment. It's shaped kind of like an I. There's the kitchen and living room then a small hallways that leads to the bathroom in the middle and the spare room and bedroom on either side of that.
We initially put B in the spare room, but that's not fair to her and she's the victim here. So now we've been switching the cats every morning between the small room and the rest of the house.
C is very loud. Knocks things over and scratches the carpet in the spare room if he's in there by himself for more than 5 hours. It wakes me up every morning he's in there.
Neither cat plays independently so they're bored if we're not with them.
C escaped from the small room this morning, ran to B, sniffed her and then swatted at her. I went up and said "no" and he took of into the living room and wouldn't let me catch him.
So I feel like this is not going well. We've been keeping them seperated for a week, but they do swat at each other under the door.
It's just hard because the small room we put them in is where our tv and video games and couch are, so we do like to spend a lot of time in there.so one cat ends up getting more attention during that time.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what we can do better? We really don't want to have to get rid of C, especially since he has already been returned to the shelter by some else before us. He's a good cat, but I think he may just do better in a home where he doesnt have to share his humans affection .
About 3 months ago my husband and I adopted a 2 year old male (C) and a 4 year old female (B). The shelter told us they already knew each other and got along, but come to find out later, that wasn't true. They had been in the same room there for a day.
Now, since we thought they were already comfortable with one another, we didn't keep them seperated or do an introduction. It was fine for a while, but by the end of the 3 months C was becoming very aggressive with B. He kept pouncing on her and attacking her and stalking her and chasing her out of whatever room we were in.
We decided we needed to do a reintroduction, but we've never done one and we live in a 2 bedroom apartment. It's shaped kind of like an I. There's the kitchen and living room then a small hallways that leads to the bathroom in the middle and the spare room and bedroom on either side of that.
We initially put B in the spare room, but that's not fair to her and she's the victim here. So now we've been switching the cats every morning between the small room and the rest of the house.
C is very loud. Knocks things over and scratches the carpet in the spare room if he's in there by himself for more than 5 hours. It wakes me up every morning he's in there.
Neither cat plays independently so they're bored if we're not with them.
C escaped from the small room this morning, ran to B, sniffed her and then swatted at her. I went up and said "no" and he took of into the living room and wouldn't let me catch him.
So I feel like this is not going well. We've been keeping them seperated for a week, but they do swat at each other under the door.
It's just hard because the small room we put them in is where our tv and video games and couch are, so we do like to spend a lot of time in there.so one cat ends up getting more attention during that time.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what we can do better? We really don't want to have to get rid of C, especially since he has already been returned to the shelter by some else before us. He's a good cat, but I think he may just do better in a home where he doesnt have to share his humans affection .
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