My fellow cat .. people
I have a problem which has been going on for a a few months, since about December last year, I haven't been able to find any worthy information on how to conquer, so yeah, here I am!
I have two cats, both female, mother and daughter, the mother is desexed, daughter isn't (but soon to be). The mother (Midnight) has is about a year and a half old and I've had her for that long, for as long as I've had her, she's never really hissed or scratched at anything that I'm aware of, she has been the perfect cat. She had kittens in November last year, the month after I got her desexed so it didn't happen again, as you do. Out of all the kittens (litter of four) we kept one, Soxie.
Soxie and Midnight have been best buddies since Soxie was born, no fights or quarrels, apart from the usual 'Youre in my way *slap*' kind of thing that cats do, then one night I heard some very bad hissing coming from outside. When I went out to check it out, I coulnd't find either of the cats. A little while later Midnight wandered in, so I went looking for the other, when I found her, I brought her in .. The second Midnight caught a glimpse of Soxie, she completely flipped out, she was hissing, scratching, and biting my shoes (I was holding Soxie), Soxie pretty much did the same, ended up with sliced up hands because of the affair. After this I locked Soxie in the bathroom so she wouldn't get hurt, Midnight was very jittery but she wasn't angry at all.
A couple of hours after this happened I tried putting the cats back together, the same thing happened, so Soxie was locked in the bathroom (with her own nourishment of course) until morning, when I tried it again. This time it wasn't has bad but they were still a little weary of each other.
This is where the annoyance/angry/stupidity starts! That happened a couple of months ago, and since then Midnight (the mother) gets grumpy really easy, she will growl at anyone if they get too close to her sometimes. Whenever Soxie goes near her, Midnight will growl and swat until Soxie goes away. The main thing is that it is getting annoying being around them, as midnight doesn't stop growling at all while they are together. They can be across the other side of a large room from each other and Midnight will still growl and mumble to herself.
I was just wondering if this has happened to anyone else before, and if so, how was the problem rectified? I have talked to my vet about it the day after the original fight happened, and she said that once Soxie was desexed the problems should go away, she was about two to three months old at the time so I've had to wait, now she's seven months old and can get desexed, I asked again about the problem and the same vet said that it probably wouldn't make a difference, and that the fight is probably over a male cat they both want, which is entirely likely, as I saw a male cat outside when I went looking for my cats on the original fight night.
So yeah, any help would be muchly appreciated, I am in desperate need of a 'Doctor Harry' fix (for you Aussies out there), the cats are really getting on our nerves and it's just a really bad neucence having both of them around.
Oh! A quick note, Midnight gets cranky even when Soxie is nowhere to be found, she will grow/scratch when she is picked up a lot of the time now, when before she loved being picked up and pet. It's like she has just got a short fuse and wont put up with anyones balony.
Well, I thank you all in advance for any help you can provide me, I am afraid I may have to get rid of Midnight if this problem persists, home life is rather unbearable when you can't even look at one of the cats without getting growled at - Also, forgive me for the long post, it is a rather long story
- damian
I have a problem which has been going on for a a few months, since about December last year, I haven't been able to find any worthy information on how to conquer, so yeah, here I am!
I have two cats, both female, mother and daughter, the mother is desexed, daughter isn't (but soon to be). The mother (Midnight) has is about a year and a half old and I've had her for that long, for as long as I've had her, she's never really hissed or scratched at anything that I'm aware of, she has been the perfect cat. She had kittens in November last year, the month after I got her desexed so it didn't happen again, as you do. Out of all the kittens (litter of four) we kept one, Soxie.
Soxie and Midnight have been best buddies since Soxie was born, no fights or quarrels, apart from the usual 'Youre in my way *slap*' kind of thing that cats do, then one night I heard some very bad hissing coming from outside. When I went out to check it out, I coulnd't find either of the cats. A little while later Midnight wandered in, so I went looking for the other, when I found her, I brought her in .. The second Midnight caught a glimpse of Soxie, she completely flipped out, she was hissing, scratching, and biting my shoes (I was holding Soxie), Soxie pretty much did the same, ended up with sliced up hands because of the affair. After this I locked Soxie in the bathroom so she wouldn't get hurt, Midnight was very jittery but she wasn't angry at all.
A couple of hours after this happened I tried putting the cats back together, the same thing happened, so Soxie was locked in the bathroom (with her own nourishment of course) until morning, when I tried it again. This time it wasn't has bad but they were still a little weary of each other.
This is where the annoyance/angry/stupidity starts! That happened a couple of months ago, and since then Midnight (the mother) gets grumpy really easy, she will growl at anyone if they get too close to her sometimes. Whenever Soxie goes near her, Midnight will growl and swat until Soxie goes away. The main thing is that it is getting annoying being around them, as midnight doesn't stop growling at all while they are together. They can be across the other side of a large room from each other and Midnight will still growl and mumble to herself.
I was just wondering if this has happened to anyone else before, and if so, how was the problem rectified? I have talked to my vet about it the day after the original fight happened, and she said that once Soxie was desexed the problems should go away, she was about two to three months old at the time so I've had to wait, now she's seven months old and can get desexed, I asked again about the problem and the same vet said that it probably wouldn't make a difference, and that the fight is probably over a male cat they both want, which is entirely likely, as I saw a male cat outside when I went looking for my cats on the original fight night.
So yeah, any help would be muchly appreciated, I am in desperate need of a 'Doctor Harry' fix (for you Aussies out there), the cats are really getting on our nerves and it's just a really bad neucence having both of them around.
Oh! A quick note, Midnight gets cranky even when Soxie is nowhere to be found, she will grow/scratch when she is picked up a lot of the time now, when before she loved being picked up and pet. It's like she has just got a short fuse and wont put up with anyones balony.
Well, I thank you all in advance for any help you can provide me, I am afraid I may have to get rid of Midnight if this problem persists, home life is rather unbearable when you can't even look at one of the cats without getting growled at - Also, forgive me for the long post, it is a rather long story
- damian