update? all three of them spent almost an entire day in the same room (as far apart from each other as they could be) just staring at each other menacingly.
and then Nox got up and moved, and Barney hissed and ran away.
but it's progress!
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update? all three of them spent almost an entire day in the same room (as far apart from each other as they could be) just staring at each other menacingly.
and then Nox got up and moved, and Barney hissed and ran away.
but it's progress!
We live in a rural area where sometimes city folk dump pets. So to say we've had a lot of cats is a bit of an understatement. The gentle introduction is great, but if that doesn't work there are a few other possibilities. Getting them fixed will lower, but not eliminate, the desire to fight and be territorial. Catnip might help. Time might do it. A sympathetic vet might get you some kitty Prozac to calm down the aggressive one(s), allowing them to be together without heightened response. A blind play sometimes works, where they're playing with each other under a door or through a box - ie, not face-to-face.
And after all that, some cats just don't get along.
Nox doesn't seem to be the slightest bit interested in or affected by catnip, but Sox is a total kitty pothead if we let her. Barney is somewhere in the middle. I've got some "calming treats" but Barney and Nox won't eat them, and Sox will eat them until she's passed out for days. lol she'd be a little kitty drug addict if she could get them on her own, lol
All are fixed. I know it's "only" been a few months, and sometimes it could take a long time, but if they just avoided each other, instead of it nearly always turning into Barney running and hiding in the basement where he can't be found, for hours on end, just from seeing the others...
Even before they were allowed out into the main part of the house, Barney would come to my office door just to hiss at them, through the door.
I feel so bad that Barney seems to be feeling like he's lost his entire house except for wherever he hides at. :| :| :|
.... also @seahorse ... this thread says there's 6 comments, but i only see 5. it's been one off ever since the first reply ... what's up with that? any ideas?