Two-week update on savage Lenore

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Josh Feltman

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She's a handful. Very sweet personality, but very sharp claws as well. Kitty, our other cat, is miserable unfortunately. Anybody have any tips on helping cats get along?

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You know, Josh, it's good to see you around. I missed you when you were gone.

John
 
Josh, cats adjust. We had multiple cats at a time when I was a kid. Stray kittens would just sort of fall into our laps. The older cat generally hated the youngsters for a couple of weeks. However, over time, they grew to tolerate and sometimes even like each other. There is something to be said about another warm body to curl up next to. Just don't force them on each other. They will learn their roles and pecking order on their own. The last thing you want is an older cat that feels its place is threatened. It won't end well for you, your cat, or your kitten.

Kitty will adjust either by begrudgingly accepting little Lenore or ignoring her totally. This is a cat's specialty:p

Now, for some internet cat pics
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Jake
 
Jake, that last picture is cracking me up!
 
Cats do adjust. That reaction is pretty typical.
Even if they are never friends, which would be unusual but not impossible, they will work around the other.


munk
 
Any chance you get , get them both onto your lap. They both want to be there but they have to tolerate the other for the limited space. Only do this if they are not actively battleing for dominance. You don't wanna be the battle ground.LOL
 
Nip.

Lots of it. Fresh catnip.

It addles their little minds. If they trip together, they forget they hate one another- until they suddenly remember and fight, only now they're intoxicated.

Ah. That may not help, but it's fun to watch.

Cold weather reminds cats who their next of cat kin really is. Mutual hatred of being cold will force brotherly cat love to the surface. Truces are made in the cold.


Mike
 
Well, part of the problem is kitty is 16 or 17, and Lenore is 11 weeks. Kitty has never been what I would consider a really social cat, and this is the first other cat she's had to deal with living in the house. Kitty is old, and though she's in decent health, she's really, really old. My wife is in complete denial about this of course. I thought maybe having another cat around when she goes might soften the blow for her.

Great cat pics by the way!
 
Josh Feltman said:
Well, part of the problem is kitty is 16 or 17, and Lenore is 11 weeks. Kitty has never been what I would consider a really social cat, and this is the first other cat she's had to deal with living in the house. Kitty is old, and though she's in decent health, she's really, really old. My wife is in complete denial about this of course. I thought maybe having another cat around when she goes might soften the blow for her.

Great cat pics by the way!
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I for one think having another cat around probably will soften the blow when Kitty goes off to play in kitty heaven. She'll probably just learn to tolerate the little Lenore. She'll find a spot to sleep that is too much trouble for the kitten to reach her. Kittens basically being little furry ADHD machines, will get bored with stuff that isn't in their field of view. Just keep and eye on Kitty and make sure she feels the love she has always had, or she might end up like my mom's cat Jingles. Jingles was the only cat save for her daughter for many years, then we moved to the country where we aquired a new cat pretty much every season for several years. Poor Jingles (or Jing Jing as my mom called here) simply went insane and hid behind the water heater for the next 5 years. Of course, Jing Jing completely lost her mind in her old age.

I think is only so much a poor cat can take before it snaps. Birth of her own children, birth of an adorable fur-pulling scamp (ah-hem..me;)), leaving the house she was raised in to move to the country, and then getting a gaggle of kittens thrown at her every year.;) That crazy old thing made it 18 before she just kind of wore out.

Kitty will be fine. Once the lines are drawn and pecking order established, then Kitty will get to the point where she couldn't care less if there was another cat in the house.

Jake
 
In spite of being a kitten, Lenore is dead set on learning how to play the piano. Unfortuntely, my wife has a bunch of breakable stuff up on top the piano, so she doesn't want the kitten up there. So, the evening runs something like this:

*discordant piano music*
"Lenore, get down from there."
ten minutes later...
*eerie chord*
"Lenore!"
five minutes later...
*non-euclidian riff, loud meow*
"LENORE!"
and so on.
 
They'll usually adjust over time, at least in my experience. The adjustment period can be, uh, interesting though.

Steely, those pictures are hilarious! Thanks for sharing. :thumbup:
 
I finally have pictures of Mongo the Fearless Furball, alternatively known as Fuzzball or brat. She's about five months old, has an exceptionally large tail for her size, and she fears almost nothing. As a tiny kitten she would stare down my mother's Great Dane and sleep next to a running Shop-Vac. She's also extremely smart; I tried getting her to play with a laser pointer a while ago and she figured out within a few minutes that she couldn't capture the little red dot, so she left it alone. As a challenge I decided to teach her a few tricks, she'll now sit and come consistently, but we're still working on sit up and speak. She's a lot of fun.
 

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