Hello. I am a new member to this site. I am not sure if this is where I should be posting this.
We adopted a mom and baby(boy) about 3 or 4 years ago. We decided that maybe we would want another cat for the boy to play around with. So we went and picked one out, she is only 2 years old and very sweet around us. When we first brought her home, we let the other two cats sniff her carrier and they seemed really interested, no hissing or anything. We found out that our new cat had earmites, so we had to quarantine her for awhile, but our two original cats knew that she existed. After the new cat was better, we introduced them slowly...things went pretty good. A little bit of hissing between the two females. Then our male cat would be interested and the new cat would hiss at him and he would run away, but would continue to come to her. It stayed like that for about a week or so, and then the new cat would start to hiss and swat at the male cat...then a few days later she would do it to our female cat. If anything we thought that our original cats would be the ones to hiss and maybe swat at the new cat...but it seems that the new cat is the one starting the fights. She is a sweetheart around us...but now is starting to attack both cats. Chasing them and jumping on them...in our eyes this is not a good thing.
So...we don't know what to do. Take her back, to a no kill shelter or wait and see how things go. Seems like things are getting worse and worse. She is an adorable and sweet cat...and we think maybe she would be better as an only cat.
Any suggestions on how to get them to calm down or advice on what to do would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
We adopted a mom and baby(boy) about 3 or 4 years ago. We decided that maybe we would want another cat for the boy to play around with. So we went and picked one out, she is only 2 years old and very sweet around us. When we first brought her home, we let the other two cats sniff her carrier and they seemed really interested, no hissing or anything. We found out that our new cat had earmites, so we had to quarantine her for awhile, but our two original cats knew that she existed. After the new cat was better, we introduced them slowly...things went pretty good. A little bit of hissing between the two females. Then our male cat would be interested and the new cat would hiss at him and he would run away, but would continue to come to her. It stayed like that for about a week or so, and then the new cat would start to hiss and swat at the male cat...then a few days later she would do it to our female cat. If anything we thought that our original cats would be the ones to hiss and maybe swat at the new cat...but it seems that the new cat is the one starting the fights. She is a sweetheart around us...but now is starting to attack both cats. Chasing them and jumping on them...in our eyes this is not a good thing.
So...we don't know what to do. Take her back, to a no kill shelter or wait and see how things go. Seems like things are getting worse and worse. She is an adorable and sweet cat...and we think maybe she would be better as an only cat.
Any suggestions on how to get them to calm down or advice on what to do would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!