Not UN-Happy Cats, if A Bit Tense
Oct. 27th, 2022 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Rhubarb in foreground (left), Buttercup (orange) attempting to model relaxed posture, and Willow background (middle.)
We are currently trying something new. All the articles we've read about cat introductions are really insistent on this whole continued separation thing, but they also seem to want us to have screen doors in the interior of our house so that the cats can get used to the sight of each other. Well, we can separate, but only with solid doors. This has been leading, we think, so a lot of anxiousness. Where did that interloper go? Did I chase her off? Rather than, "Ah, yes, the annoying look-alike that lives here with me is still here being annoying and looking exactly like me only smaller/bigger."
So, we decided to devote the day to supervised observing. We are only isolating briefly if there is actual teeth out, claws scratching fights. And, even then, we are only closing off the attacker for a few minutes before reintroducing them.
This seems to be working better.
It helps that Buttercup is LITERALLY putting himself between them during tense stare downs and flopping around as if to say, "What? It's chill here. I'm chill. How are you?"
Image: Rhubarb, Buttercup, and Willow. Two tense ladies and one chill boi.
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