OK about 2 and a half years ago I was given a stray cat that generally was pretty even tempered with people, or at least she was even tempered with the person that gave her to me, and me. At the time I lived alone and she had no problems getting along with me. I also own a rabbit and she has no problems getting along with him either. However when company comes over she is generally unpleasant torwards them completely. Very few people that I know will be ok in her view. The people she is ok torwards doesn't really make a lot of sense either.
One frond of mine has a cat and 2 dogs and she is ok with him, andother has 3 cats and she hates her, and another has no cats and she hates them. Also if cats come near the house she sits in the window hissing at them. Generally this has been behavior that up until now has been tolerable, except that the palce I am living currently a new person is moving in and she is brought another cat, male.
For the first couple days the new housemate kept her cat in her room, and my cat would generally leave the housemate alone. However whenever they were both in the same room togeather my cat would hiss and growl at her. Today i tried to introduce my cat to the new cat and she was pretty ticked. My cat proceeded to growl and his at the new cat. Thankfully the new cat is pretty even tempered and likes just about everyone. My cat however is the exact opposite and would foloow him around or stand her ground and constantly hiss or growl at him.
Is there any way to get my cat to stop doign this? She doesn't hiss ro growl at me unless there is an element in the air that she doesn't like (IE the new cat or housemate) then she hisses and growls at everyone including me. I can't jsut keep the cats seperated. The new housemate can't just keep her cat locked up in her room, it's nto fair to her cat. Also I want my cat to get along with people more and stop being a total meanie. It's getting to the point where if she is going to be this unsocial to pretty much everyone I know including the new people that live here she might have to go away, and I do not want that.
One frond of mine has a cat and 2 dogs and she is ok with him, andother has 3 cats and she hates her, and another has no cats and she hates them. Also if cats come near the house she sits in the window hissing at them. Generally this has been behavior that up until now has been tolerable, except that the palce I am living currently a new person is moving in and she is brought another cat, male.
For the first couple days the new housemate kept her cat in her room, and my cat would generally leave the housemate alone. However whenever they were both in the same room togeather my cat would hiss and growl at her. Today i tried to introduce my cat to the new cat and she was pretty ticked. My cat proceeded to growl and his at the new cat. Thankfully the new cat is pretty even tempered and likes just about everyone. My cat however is the exact opposite and would foloow him around or stand her ground and constantly hiss or growl at him.
Is there any way to get my cat to stop doign this? She doesn't hiss ro growl at me unless there is an element in the air that she doesn't like (IE the new cat or housemate) then she hisses and growls at everyone including me. I can't jsut keep the cats seperated. The new housemate can't just keep her cat locked up in her room, it's nto fair to her cat. Also I want my cat to get along with people more and stop being a total meanie. It's getting to the point where if she is going to be this unsocial to pretty much everyone I know including the new people that live here she might have to go away, and I do not want that.