Oh and at the new place I will move Oscar in first, get him settled with NO
other cats around.... hope that his hormones have calmed, and then move
Harley (other boy) in. Both of these cats are good with other cats, and
both were very curious about each other. But Oscar just doesn't know how to
respect personal space (he would keep getting too close to Harley and Harley
would puff up and meow really loud). So certainly a slow introduction
should be no problem with these two. It's just hard because so many new
things will be happening at once and they will both be stressed (especially
Harley with a brand new house and all).

Kelly

"Kelly" wrote in message
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Well Oscar the meowing cat never did stop meowing and howling. I tried
many different things to get him to stop, including sleeping in the room
with him. Turns out what he is really meowing about is that he really
wants to see my other cats. Unfortunately, my cats aren't enthusiastic
about this idea. Oscar did not stop meowing the whole night.... from 5pm
to 7am this morning he never slept (and this is a cat that just had
surgery yesterday!!). I had one, maybe two hours of sleep. Needless to
say I had to call in sick today.

The whole plan with Oscar was to have him live here for 2 weeks, and then
my fiancee and I get our new house March 11 and we were going to move in
and slowly work on the new place and Oscar would come with us and live
there (along with the 4 year old neutered male). Well with the way Oscar
is howling, I'm afraid to report that I took him this morning to be
boarded at the local vet clinic until we gain access to the new house on
March 11. I cannot be kept up like this. I feel that the solution would
be to give him free run of the house, but this is not possible because I'm
my cats will freak and get their noses out of joint. This is not fair to
them. I even tried putting him in our basement, and his howls could still
be heard all over the house. I kept thinking "Okay, he has to stop soon
because he has to sleep". Nope...

This cat was so exhausted that he slept the whole car ride to the vet
hospital this morning. Poor thing. Fortunately, he is familiar with this
vet hospital because this is where he was quarentined for "claim" for a
week before I took him (I wanted to make sure he wasn't someone elses
cat). He gets a very big cage there and all the staff love him and we can
go visit whenever we like. I'm hoping these next couple weeks go quickly,
because boy did I feel guilty bringing him back there.

I talked to the vet and she said his howling could certainly be due to the
fact that he's still technically a Tomcat. It takes a while for all those
hormones to wear off. She assured me he would settle in just fine in the
new house.

sigh

Kelly