Advice needed New Cat (long)

This topic has probably been raised many times, but please help me
anyway. :-)

Cat #1 is six. Cat #2 is 5 years old. They get along well, play
together, etc. Both are somewhat shy females. Cat 1 displays fear
aggression with strays who come up on the porch, throwing herself at
the storm door and wailing loudly, yet accepted cat 2 easily and
quickly about four years ago.

The first week in November a female stray, apparently pure-bred
Persian (according to the vet) showed up one night. She was sick, and
bedraggled. Put her on the back porch for the night with a heating
pad and took her straight to the vet the next morning. When she
tested negative for feline aids and leukemia, I brought her home and
put her in the spare bedroom. Boy, this is not going well. Initially
on first introduction several days later cat 1 hissed and charged
her. I took her back to safety and tried several days later with a
carefully supervised through the baby gate introduction. Cats 1 & 2
both hissed and ran. Tried later same result. Took bedding and cat
beds back and forth so scent would become familiar all around.

Days later took cat #3 downstairs and held her on my lap in the living
room for about twenty minutes. She ignored cats 1 &2 who prowled
around watching curiously. Now comes the surprise (to me anyway). I
brought her and my giant spray bottle of water downstairs and released
her. They all looked at eacher for a momenThen the new little
"frightened" cat took after cat 1, sent her into hiding and turned on
cat 2. Both of them immediately run from cat 3 now and I am
flummoxed. Does the pheromone thing really work? It seems pretty
expensive if it doesn't turn out to be effective.

Suggestions, please?

Thanks,
Ruth

"Mookie" wrote in message
...
This topic has probably been raised many times, but please help me
anyway. :-)

Cat #1 is six. Cat #2 is 5 years old. They get along well, play
together, etc. Both are somewhat shy females. Cat 1 displays fear
aggression with strays who come up on the porch, throwing herself
at
the storm door and wailing loudly, yet accepted cat 2 easily and
quickly about four years ago.

The first week in November a female stray, apparently pure-bred
Persian (according to the vet) showed up one night. She was sick,
and
bedraggled. Put her on the back porch for the night with a heating
pad and took her straight to the vet the next morning. When she
tested negative for feline aids and leukemia, I brought her home
and
put her in the spare bedroom. Boy, this is not going well.
Initially
on first introduction several days later cat 1 hissed and charged
her. I took her back to safety and tried several days later with a
carefully supervised through the baby gate introduction. Cats 1 &
2
both hissed and ran. Tried later same result. Took bedding and
cat
beds back and forth so scent would become familiar all around.

Days later took cat #3 downstairs and held her on my lap in the
living
room for about twenty minutes. She ignored cats 1 &2 who prowled
around watching curiously. Now comes the surprise (to me anyway).
I
brought her and my giant spray bottle of water downstairs and
released
her. They all looked at eacher for a momenThen the new little
"frightened" cat took after cat 1, sent her into hiding and turned
on
cat 2. Both of them immediately run from cat 3 now and I am
flummoxed. Does the pheromone thing really work? It seems pretty
expensive if it doesn't turn out to be effective.

Suggestions, please?

Thanks,
Ruth

It becomes a matter of don't knock it if you haven't tried it. I
used it for several weeks when we first got Molly. I think it
helped. At that point they seemed to be OK with each other and it
seemed to be making Jake anxious so I stopped.

Reason it this way. It is unlikely that they could market something
that expensive if there weren't quite a few folks who do think it
works.

(And for the life of me can't think of the name of it right now)

Jo

On 1/11/2010 4:42 PM, Jofirey wrote:

"Mookie" wrote in message
...
This topic has probably been raised many times, but please help me
anyway. :-)

Cat #1 is six. Cat #2 is 5 years old. They get along well, play
together, etc. Both are somewhat shy females. Cat 1 displays fear
aggression with strays who come up on the porch, throwing herself at
the storm door and wailing loudly, yet accepted cat 2 easily and
quickly about four years ago.

The first week in November a female stray, apparently pure-bred
Persian (according to the vet) showed up one night. She was sick, and
bedraggled. Put her on the back porch for the night with a heating
pad and took her straight to the vet the next morning. When she
tested negative for feline aids and leukemia, I brought her home and
put her in the spare bedroom. Boy, this is not going well. Initially
on first introduction several days later cat 1 hissed and charged
her. I took her back to safety and tried several days later with a
carefully supervised through the baby gate introduction. Cats 1 & 2
both hissed and ran. Tried later same result. Took bedding and cat
beds back and forth so scent would become familiar all around.

Days later took cat #3 downstairs and held her on my lap in the living
room for about twenty minutes. She ignored cats 1 &2 who prowled
around watching curiously. Now comes the surprise (to me anyway). I
brought her and my giant spray bottle of water downstairs and released
her. They all looked at eacher for a momenThen the new little
"frightened" cat took after cat 1, sent her into hiding and turned on
cat 2. Both of them immediately run from cat 3 now and I am
flummoxed. Does the pheromone thing really work? It seems pretty
expensive if it doesn't turn out to be effective.

Suggestions, please?

Thanks,
Ruth

It becomes a matter of don't knock it if you haven't tried it. I used it
for several weeks when we first got Molly. I think it helped. At that
point they seemed to be OK with each other and it seemed to be making
Jake anxious so I stopped.

Reason it this way. It is unlikely that they could market something that
expensive if there weren't quite a few folks who do think it works.

(And for the life of me can't think of the name of it right now)

Jo

Feliway?