hello
had cats all my life. had multi cat house for the last 20 years. current lineup is (all indoor cats):
#1 9 year old orange female - loves humans, currently attacks #4, gets irritated by #2 at times, confident, independent, treat motivated. cannot pick her up. fully clawed and fixed
#2 6 month old orange male - full of spunk, friendly, pisses off all other gets due to attempting to play with them (jumping on backs etc). very very confident. fully clawed and just got fixed.
#3 10 year old siamese female - #2 irritates her but other than that no issues. no claws and fixed
#4 9 year old siamese female - adopted her when she was about 6 months old, she was farell before that. “scardey cat”. no confidence. hisses and sometimes runs from #2. screams bloody murder when #1 comes after her. fully clawed and fixed
before we got #2 we had a 17 year old orange male that pretty much ran the house in a good way most times. the house had balance. #1 and #4 didnt care for eachother but co-existed without much drama. the 17 year old passed and along came kitten (#2). things started off ok. #2 was put into his own room for a couple weeks with baby gates so the others could smell and see. we finally let out #2, he went after all the cats, jumping on backs, took over #1’s cat tree spot and trying to play. he never backs down, mega confidence. few weeks went on and at night we started hearing horrible high pitched screams. this went on for about a week til we found out #1 was going after #4.
we put #4 in her own room with litter and food. at least once a day we bring #1 in the room and have them eat food face to face with supervision, no problems. ive given treats when they are face to face no problem. after these positive interactions we split them back up. been doing this for 3 weeks. thougt we would try an unsupervised letting her out of the room today. i caught out of the corner of my eye #1 charging after #4 and #4 screaming loud. once they are unsupervised all hell breaks loose.
try playing witn #1 and #4 but they could care less about playing. #4 only associates with me so i try spend time with her. we have 2 cat trees but #1 stopped using them cause #2 chases her away. havent seen any blood draw.
im ready to give up on #1 but i really dont want to. on the other hand i cant keep living like this. vet is ordering cat prozac for #1
help! ideas?
had cats all my life. had multi cat house for the last 20 years. current lineup is (all indoor cats):
#1 9 year old orange female - loves humans, currently attacks #4, gets irritated by #2 at times, confident, independent, treat motivated. cannot pick her up. fully clawed and fixed
#2 6 month old orange male - full of spunk, friendly, pisses off all other gets due to attempting to play with them (jumping on backs etc). very very confident. fully clawed and just got fixed.
#3 10 year old siamese female - #2 irritates her but other than that no issues. no claws and fixed
#4 9 year old siamese female - adopted her when she was about 6 months old, she was farell before that. “scardey cat”. no confidence. hisses and sometimes runs from #2. screams bloody murder when #1 comes after her. fully clawed and fixed
before we got #2 we had a 17 year old orange male that pretty much ran the house in a good way most times. the house had balance. #1 and #4 didnt care for eachother but co-existed without much drama. the 17 year old passed and along came kitten (#2). things started off ok. #2 was put into his own room for a couple weeks with baby gates so the others could smell and see. we finally let out #2, he went after all the cats, jumping on backs, took over #1’s cat tree spot and trying to play. he never backs down, mega confidence. few weeks went on and at night we started hearing horrible high pitched screams. this went on for about a week til we found out #1 was going after #4.
we put #4 in her own room with litter and food. at least once a day we bring #1 in the room and have them eat food face to face with supervision, no problems. ive given treats when they are face to face no problem. after these positive interactions we split them back up. been doing this for 3 weeks. thougt we would try an unsupervised letting her out of the room today. i caught out of the corner of my eye #1 charging after #4 and #4 screaming loud. once they are unsupervised all hell breaks loose.
try playing witn #1 and #4 but they could care less about playing. #4 only associates with me so i try spend time with her. we have 2 cat trees but #1 stopped using them cause #2 chases her away. havent seen any blood draw.
im ready to give up on #1 but i really dont want to. on the other hand i cant keep living like this. vet is ordering cat prozac for #1
help! ideas?
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