We recently moved to a new house and there is a cat two doors down that is literally twice the size of my little scrap.
I haven't yet got round to installing a cat flap but have been letting her in and out a couple of times a day (she rarely goes out when it is cold anyway, but in the summer is usually out for about seven hours a day!)
My husband forgot to let her in the day before yesterday and when I rescued her six hours later she had clearly been in a fight - she was all puffed up and the very edge of her ear was bleeding slightly.
Given her extreme phobia of boxes and vets I decided to clean it up myself and see how she got on. She is fine, it is healing nicely, but today RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME she went and sprayed on the kitchen door.
We went through a terrible episode of stress incontinence (her, not me!) several years ago so I have gone straight back into Boot Camp regime (she is confined to barracks unless I specifically take her out of the room and allow her into my space blah blah blah) I'm confident that a few weeks of this and she will be reassured that I am Alpha Cat again and she doesn't have to spray. But what am I going to do long term? This cat is so massive, I am not confident that a tag-magnet catflap would keep him out.
Should I inform DH that litter tray is here to stay? Or raise issue with neighbour (I suspect from his behaviour that tom is not spayed)
Or do you think that eventually they will reach some sort of truce? My girl is tiny but very (ahem) scrappy, I have seen her start fights with other cats before so I don't think the blame is solely with him.
Has anyone else had any experience with this sort of thing? How long do you think it normally takes for cats to sort out territory etc (or is this too optimistic?)
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Grumpla · 09/03/2011 19:14
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