Hi all, Im new here. Let me tell you about the issue I am having. I have 2, male orange tabby cats. Both of them are 2 years old. Chester is a fairly relaxed cat and very easy going. His brother Cheetos, is either calm and collected or very grumpy.
I recently moved in with someone whom has two cats as well. A big dominant male cat, Coda (5 yr old) and a submissive female cat, sam. Sam is also very skittish at times. The problem lies with Sam and Cheetos. Coda is the dominant male cat in the house hold. Cheetos is trying to become the dominant cat. Coda, will not have this and sometimes holds Cheetos down until he submits.
The three male cats get along otherwise, usually just by ignoring each other and giving each other space.
Cheetos and Sam usually swat each other when they cross paths. Cheetos occansionally chase sam after these swats. Other times they are content with lying a few feet apart on the same couch or bed. They sleep almosst every night on the bed together both on different sides of my boyfriends body.
Sam, in response to Cheetos tormenting sam outside the litter box, has been peeing on the stove. So this has been going on about six months. In the beginning the frequency was not very often, once or twice a month. Sam also gets occansionally chase by Coda as well, but mostly by Cheetos. We have caught cheetos sitting out side the litter box waiting for sam to finish and then chase her away. Sam has now been doing this weekly.
The stress in the household has seemed to increase this frequency lately. Chester has just had major cat surgery, and cheetos seems very irritable by this fact. He hisses and spits at chester (they are very close brothers and inseperable until this surgery). I assume this hatred currently is because Chester smells funny from the vet and he looks funny with a half shaved body.
We have tried adding more litter boxes. We have tried moving litterboxes to other areas of the house with no luck. We tried the feliway plug ins for a while. No drastic changes with that either. Sam pees no where else that we can find besides the stove. Sam and Cheetos both went to the vet last night for a check up. No medical issues. We have tried the "rub" one cats check to gather cat phermones and then rub it on the other cat so they all "smell" the same. No major luck here either. Been doing that for a couple months now. The problem has been getting worse not better.
Cheetos is now on prozac as of last night, to hopefully help him mellow out. Hopefully, this will stop his from chasing sam.
Does anyone have any other ideas in which we could try to resolve this problem? Seperating the cats does rid the problem. But in an apartment, locking cats in a bedroom all day isnt a very good or desirable solution. I am not overly thrilled to be medicating my cat, but it is a better option than giving the cat away.
I recently moved in with someone whom has two cats as well. A big dominant male cat, Coda (5 yr old) and a submissive female cat, sam. Sam is also very skittish at times. The problem lies with Sam and Cheetos. Coda is the dominant male cat in the house hold. Cheetos is trying to become the dominant cat. Coda, will not have this and sometimes holds Cheetos down until he submits.
The three male cats get along otherwise, usually just by ignoring each other and giving each other space.
Cheetos and Sam usually swat each other when they cross paths. Cheetos occansionally chase sam after these swats. Other times they are content with lying a few feet apart on the same couch or bed. They sleep almosst every night on the bed together both on different sides of my boyfriends body.
Sam, in response to Cheetos tormenting sam outside the litter box, has been peeing on the stove. So this has been going on about six months. In the beginning the frequency was not very often, once or twice a month. Sam also gets occansionally chase by Coda as well, but mostly by Cheetos. We have caught cheetos sitting out side the litter box waiting for sam to finish and then chase her away. Sam has now been doing this weekly.
The stress in the household has seemed to increase this frequency lately. Chester has just had major cat surgery, and cheetos seems very irritable by this fact. He hisses and spits at chester (they are very close brothers and inseperable until this surgery). I assume this hatred currently is because Chester smells funny from the vet and he looks funny with a half shaved body.
We have tried adding more litter boxes. We have tried moving litterboxes to other areas of the house with no luck. We tried the feliway plug ins for a while. No drastic changes with that either. Sam pees no where else that we can find besides the stove. Sam and Cheetos both went to the vet last night for a check up. No medical issues. We have tried the "rub" one cats check to gather cat phermones and then rub it on the other cat so they all "smell" the same. No major luck here either. Been doing that for a couple months now. The problem has been getting worse not better.
Cheetos is now on prozac as of last night, to hopefully help him mellow out. Hopefully, this will stop his from chasing sam.
Does anyone have any other ideas in which we could try to resolve this problem? Seperating the cats does rid the problem. But in an apartment, locking cats in a bedroom all day isnt a very good or desirable solution. I am not overly thrilled to be medicating my cat, but it is a better option than giving the cat away.
