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Cat hissing at her brother
On Feb 7, 7:46 pm, ~ narnia ~ wrote:
My cat hisses at her brother when she comes home from the vet. This is really odd, because she's the one who smells from the vet, not him! I even rubbed the two of them with catnip to see if that would help, but it didn't work. These two are littermates and usually get along fine, but when he sees her hostile reaction to him he gets defensive and hisses back, and I have to separate them. Last time this happened it took me weeks to get things back to normal. Has anyone else had to deal with a problem like this? My cats are not littermates, but yes, I have this same problem. One of my cats freaks out when he smells the vet--on him or the other cat. I now separate them after any vet trip. I bring the one who's been to the vet in a spare room and feed him. While he's eating, I shut the door. After a while, I will feed the cats treats on either side of the the door, then open the door and let them see each other's noses and smell, etc. I take it slowly. I've had to separate anywhere from 2-12 hours. I had an incident last year where I had to basically reintroduce them, and it tooks months to get things calmed down, so a few hours is nothing! |
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