hi,
thanks in advance for everyone's help. i checked out your forum and the community here seems very nice...i guess that's a given because you like cats
here's the history:
two male cats named huck and blue. they're both male and they are brothers. they've been together they're whole lives (2 years) and they have never fought. they truly love being around each other.
the problem:
tonight a stray got into the house. huck and blue have never seen another cat (besides at the vet and their other siblings) blue seemed curious for a second and then huck attacked the stray like nothing i've ever seen.
we got the stray out of the house and tried to calm huck and blue down. huck seemed fine, his tail was all puffed out, but he seemed fine. blue went and hid. when blue came out of hiding, huck attacked him worse than he did the stray. it was awful and truly frightening. we seperated the cats into different rooms.
about 2 hours later we let them back out and huck did the same thing. we now have them seperated and we're not sure what to do.
we're terrified that (this sounds stupid) our cats are "ruined" and that they'll never be able to be around each other again.
my wife and i are truly scared for their health. please help with any suggestions or referals.
thank you so much,
jtc
thanks in advance for everyone's help. i checked out your forum and the community here seems very nice...i guess that's a given because you like cats
here's the history:
two male cats named huck and blue. they're both male and they are brothers. they've been together they're whole lives (2 years) and they have never fought. they truly love being around each other.
the problem:
tonight a stray got into the house. huck and blue have never seen another cat (besides at the vet and their other siblings) blue seemed curious for a second and then huck attacked the stray like nothing i've ever seen.
we got the stray out of the house and tried to calm huck and blue down. huck seemed fine, his tail was all puffed out, but he seemed fine. blue went and hid. when blue came out of hiding, huck attacked him worse than he did the stray. it was awful and truly frightening. we seperated the cats into different rooms.
about 2 hours later we let them back out and huck did the same thing. we now have them seperated and we're not sure what to do.
we're terrified that (this sounds stupid) our cats are "ruined" and that they'll never be able to be around each other again.
my wife and i are truly scared for their health. please help with any suggestions or referals.
thank you so much,
jtc