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How to Fix Bad Cat Behavior?
My two cats and I have recently moved in with someone who has two cats of his own. The process of getting everyone settled has caused some bad behavior that I need help breaking.
1. There are two litter pans for the four cats. I'm fairly certain that the downstairs one gets three cats using it, as it fills up extremely fast. I didn't realize how quickly, and it was soon so full that they pooped on the floor right in front of the box. I can understand that, so resolved to clean the pan daily. However, I came downstairs to a spotless fresh pan and poop on the floor, for no reason. How can I discourage this behavior?
2. With three male cats and one painfully shy female, there has been some tension. Luckily my two males assimilated within a week, so there have been no problems there. However, my roommate's territorial male is now bullying the very shy female. What should I do about this behavior? My instinct is to shoo him away, but perhaps that's not right. Unfortunately she is extremely thin, as she is scared of men and won't eat with them around, and his bullying her away from food is not helping.
1. As for the litter pan thing, I no longer think it's a protest on lack of clean environments. Yesterday I came downstairs to four piles of poop on the floor with nothing at all in the litter pan; this morning, two (wet) piles, also an immaculate litter pan. It's like they refuse to go in the pan at all now.
2. Both the tom and the shy female are spayed. The tom bullies to the point that he would rather leave his food and go after hers. I feed the three males together and the female away, protecting her food if need be. When the bully tom leaves his food to try to get hers (which is the exact same thing!) his food gets eaten- he would rather not eat and bother her.
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- chrusotoxosLv 610 years agoFavorite Answer
For the litter: you can't blame the cats. In their opinion, first they had one bathroom each, and now they have to share with horrible new roomates. They also noticed that it's often dirty, as you said. Cats hate this sort of stuff. The only thing to do is to keep it extra-clean, and soon they'll notice it and go back to the litter box. If you want to speed up the process it could help to get a third litter box - extra worl for you, but the cats will notice that everything is cleaner much faster.
As for the other problem, I don't think that you have many options here. Cats get less aggressive when they are spayed, which I would advise in any case, but if your lady is so shy, the other tom will probably continue to bully her. There are three things you can do: punish this behaviour by spraying water on the tom (but only when you notice him doing it, and immediately!), ensure your lady is eating by feeding her apart from the other cats, and possibly trying some Back flowers remedies - not very reliable, in my opinion, but friends have used them on their cats and situations have been improved, so why not give it a go.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
We do the squirt bottle element too. It would not harm the cat, it in basic terms annoys them. it form of feels to help each and every now and then yet in many situations i detect the cat won't get down from the table until eventually I incredibly have the squirt bottle in my palms. in basic terms ensure they are getting adequate cat food and supply it a while. Our cat has gotten greater ideal. as quickly as we first have been given him he were underfed so he became into consistently searching for food on the counters. Now he knows of he gets fed so he's greater probably to get on the counter for the view incredibly than the food.
