Hello,
Iam new to this site and hoping for some help. My husband and I are taking a "roomate" into our home at the end of the month. She has two male cats,one a maine coon, the other a manx. We have one female tabby and one black male. All are neutered. We decided to move the cats in last night to ensure this is going to work out before we move all of our new housemates furniture in ,etc. It did not go well. The manx was wary and kept to itself but the Maine Coon showed a very cocky attitude to its new surroundings and quite an interest in our female. At first it appeared to not even notice our small male but then it began chasing it, quite aggressively,until we were able to intervene. My husband has a nasty bite today and our timid male has been hiding in the closet for about 12 hours. He has never hissed before but when coaxed him out of the closet he hissed and spit at our other cat who he has lived with for 2 years! He appears very traumatized. The maine Coon seems unaffected by all of it and continues to approach our female(who rebuffs him by swiping, growling and hissing) and seems to be looking for our Male. I am stressing about this greatly and slept barely a wink last night. Any advice
anybody can offer would be much appreciated. Thank you !
Iam new to this site and hoping for some help. My husband and I are taking a "roomate" into our home at the end of the month. She has two male cats,one a maine coon, the other a manx. We have one female tabby and one black male. All are neutered. We decided to move the cats in last night to ensure this is going to work out before we move all of our new housemates furniture in ,etc. It did not go well. The manx was wary and kept to itself but the Maine Coon showed a very cocky attitude to its new surroundings and quite an interest in our female. At first it appeared to not even notice our small male but then it began chasing it, quite aggressively,until we were able to intervene. My husband has a nasty bite today and our timid male has been hiding in the closet for about 12 hours. He has never hissed before but when coaxed him out of the closet he hissed and spit at our other cat who he has lived with for 2 years! He appears very traumatized. The maine Coon seems unaffected by all of it and continues to approach our female(who rebuffs him by swiping, growling and hissing) and seems to be looking for our Male. I am stressing about this greatly and slept barely a wink last night. Any advice
anybody can offer would be much appreciated. Thank you !