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  1. LOL, I will warn you. Separation may help, but when you return it may be like starting from the beginning again.

    We have two cats who have been raised together, but we had to take one to the vet. When we brought her back home, only after about 3 hours of absence, the other started having hissy fits, growling, hissing and slapping. The sick kitty is a tabby, and the other a calico. It took four weeks for them to settle down, and stop the craziness.

    She stayed under the bed for the first four days after arriving home. I could not even get out to give her medicine, because of the craziness. Nor would she come out for food.

    When I finally did manage to coach her out. I had to shut the door, when I feed the sick cat, or the other would chase her under the bed, and eat her food, which did not work, because it had medicine in it.

    Even after the cat was well, I had to feed them seperate for about 2 months. I am happy to report they are back to normal, and are cuddling and eating together again.

    Anyway just wanted to say, I enjoy your cat stories.

    • We do the back and forth like this quite often, so they adjust reasonably quickly. I think the new troubles with Floyd and Tarzan is more a male pecking order thing than anything. Unfortunately, Rossie seems to be on the bottom of the kitty pecking order, not sure if it’s because she’s aloof, or whether she’s aloof because she’s at the bottom of the pecking order. To us, she’s a beautiful gentle kitty, but progress in socializing her has been so incremental. Lots baby steps forward and larger steps backward.

    • I’m really surprised you had such a dramatic impact from such a brief separation (as I’m sure you were, too!).

      • It surprised us to the extreme reaction. We had not seen that, since we made the big move from Texas to Florida. That is when we discover our sweet, loving calico could be a little witch, and for several weeks. I do not think she likes change.

        However, in this instance, we think maybe it was the smell of the other animals from the clinic, and the medicine the Doc rubbed on Sarah our tabby.

        The calico does not like it when the outside neighbor cat comes to her door either. If we pet him sometimes, she acts hissy for an hour or two. He is very friendly, and likes us. He would come in the house if we would let him, but cannot because of Harley the calico.

  2. Aww, I love hearing cat stories! It’s so intriguing how they all have different ways of interacting. Our two will get along fine for days, maybe play fight a little, and then one day go bonkers fighting and making outlandish noises – and then ten minutes later they’re all settled down again 🙂