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One cat stalking, attacking other cat F/F
My cat, Gracie, is a pretty hefty and muscular female, about three years old. My new roommate's cat is considerably smaller and about the same age. My cat, of course, is the aggressive one. The thing is, she has been around other cats, introduced into their environments and had one introduced into her environment without incident (other than the typical 2-3 month hissing and swatting adjustment period). Most of the time, all the cats involved were female, since I prefer females to males. The new situation is totally different. When I moved in with my new roommate back around the middle of July, I introduced my cat by keeping her movements restricted to my bedroom for the first couple of weeks, to let the other cat get a whiff of the new arrival. However, my cat didn't spend a lot of time near the door to that bedroom, since she was pretty nervous about the new surroundings. Eventually, the day came to let Gracie, my cat, have the run of the house. That's when the trouble started: Gracie would attack my roommate's cat, Samantha, whenever she saw her. Being much bigger and stronger, she always gets the better of it. These are full-fledged cat fights with extremely loud howling and fur flying (nobody has been injured yet). Samantha has one area, way up high on a ledge where Gracie cannot get to her, so she spends the majority of her time up there. Of course, from the beginning, she has spit at Gracie whenever she sees her approach (but I consider that pretty natural). Gracie just waits for her to make a move and then the same thing happens. How can a cat that showed no aggressive tendencies with other cats (at least one of those cats was female and much smaller, just like Samantha) how can she then turn into such an aggressor? More importantly, how can we deal with this? We've tried Feliway and several other pheromone formulas with no effect. We've tried getting my shirt with my scent and the scent of my roommate's cat combined and then putting that shirt where my newly aggressive cat Gracie normally sleeps. And vice versa. No effect. We've tried spraying my cat with water whenever we can catch her in the midst of attacking: no effect. We've kept them in separate rooms, but that's not a long-term solution. Our next plan is to get them both in cat carriers and gradually move the cat carriers closer together, but we have no idea if that will help or hurt the situation. Ideas urgently needed. Please reply in the group, as I don't check the email address given (for obvious reasons). Thanks in advance |
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