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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

2239.0. "Cali (alias "first class grouch!)" by SALEM::DEFRANCO_J () Fri Feb 17 1989 09:00

    I know that I have read about this somewhere else in the notes file
    but I just wanted to share my frustration!
    
    Sweetie went to the vets on Wed. to be spayed.  We brought her back
    home yesterday and since then Cali has been treating her terribly.
    Cali is hissing, growling, moaning and groaning and even waging
    small attacks on both Sweetie and Sam.  
    
    I don't think she really intends on hurting Sweetie, but she takes
    great pleasure in backing Sweetie up against a wall or corner, giving
    her a few swats on the head while making all these terrible hissing
    sounds.  As I have been stepping in to rescue Sweetie, Cali has
    also been taking out her frustration on Sam.  Poor Sam, he just
    doesn't know what's going on!  I'll bet he wishes he had a male
    companion instead of this tempermental B%*#%H.  I'm so disgusted
    with Cali.  I used to think she was so sensitive and fragile but
    instead she turned out to be an old "stick in the mud" grouch!!
    
    Thanks for listening!!
    
    Jeanne, Cali, Sam and Sweetie
    
    
    
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2239.1The smell?SUCCES::PEAKEFri Feb 17 1989 10:1841
    This same thing happened to us. When I lived at home we had
    2 persians, Bubbles and Sammy. They had 2 litters of kittens
    together which were beautiful. After the 2nd litter of kittens
    we decided to get Bubbles spayed. She was real thin and we
    were worried that having kittens was wearing her out. At that
    time we didn't know about having male cats neutered. We just
    thought that females were the only ones that mattered.
    
    When we brought Bubbles home from the Vets after being spayed,
    Sammy, who was a very hefty cat, attacked her viciously. They
    fought and fought, hissing and growling. Unfortunately, they
    were incompatible, and everytime they were together it would
    be the most hellacious fight. They would actually injure each
    other and because of this we were forced to place them in cages
    at night and let one out at a time. This was terrible. It 
    disrupted the house. This arrangement lasted for over 5 years.
    
    After I had left home, my mother got fed up with it. And one
    day just let the two cats out and go at each other. The fight
    was awful, but after it was over with, Bubbles started licking
    Sammy and they were a loving couple all over again.
    
    To this day, we don't know what caused the problem. I always
    thought it was the lack of a female smell on Bubbles. And Sammy
    must have thought of her as a different cat invading his 
    territory. 
    
    I notice now that when I bring one of my two cats to Vets for
    a vaccination or something, when I get home with it, the smell
    is strange to the other cat, and momentarily there's a real
    bad fight. I solve this problem by taking a small blanket that
    both sleep on and rubbing it all over the Cat that went to the
    Vets. Either I'm rubbing the Vet scent off, or I'm rubbing the
    Cat scent back on. Whatever...it works...  And all is well.
    
    Try this, it might help. It could just be the smell is different.
    Try rubbing it on all the cats, and maybe they will all smell the
    same to each other and stop fighting...I hope.  Good Luck!
    
    lp