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tom - 12 Feb 2008 18:42 GMT
A very dear friend of mine has five cats in the household.

There are two older spayed females, and two three year old neutered males.
These four cats get along basically
fine.  The male cats do pick on the females a bit though.

There is also a stray female cat that the male cats really pick on.
These cats live in a house in the city.  The owner lets the stray female
outside since she is so fearful of the the male
cats.

So this cat spends half of its life inside and the other outside.  This cat
cries at the door when it wants to come
in the house for food and shelter.  The owner then
locks the two male cats in the basement or another room
or the cat will not come in.

Why are the male cats so intent on picking on this
one cat while leaving the other two older female cats
relatively alone?
Ira - 12 Feb 2008 19:50 GMT
> Why are the male cats so intent on picking on this
> one cat while leaving the other two older female cats
> relatively alone?

I think the problem is that they are not used to the newcomer. They are
just protecting their territory from the "intruder". Something of the
kind has happened to a friend of mine: he has had two males (both
neuter) for years and when a new cat (non-sterilized female) arrived she
had to hide from the two brutes all the time. But now, as a couple of
months have passed, she's become brave and has found her place in the
hierarchy. She can even chase one of the males (who is by half as big as
herself) to take a better place or his piece of sausage but keeps a
respectful distance from the other (the bigger and dominant one). So I
think the treatment the male cats give to a newcomer must change in the
course of time. Maybe your friend should try to help the street cat to
establish her relations with the males one by one and not with the two
of them at once, beginning with a gentler one.
Baldoni - 12 Feb 2008 21:12 GMT
tom brought next idea :
> A very dear friend of mine has five cats in the household.
>
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> one cat while leaving the other two older female cats
> relatively alone?

Too many cats and there will be fallout.

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Ted Davis - 13 Feb 2008 00:45 GMT
> A very dear friend of mine has five cats in the household.
>
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
> Why are the male cats so intent on picking on this one cat while leaving
> the other two older female cats relatively alone?

She doesn't actually live there.

I have a parallel in my 15 cat clowder: Snowball disappears for up to
three weeks at a time - when she comes back, she gets mauled.  When's
she's home most of the time, there is some tension since she hates the
males who attack her, but all in all, things are peaceful enough that she
can sleep, eat, and wander around the house without being bothered.

When I had only a few cats, introducing a new one took a lot of time and
patience: the resident cats were pretty hostile for a long time.  Now,
with a large clowder, the introductions take only a day or so for my cats
to settle down.

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William Graham - 13 Feb 2008 06:39 GMT
>A very dear friend of mine has five cats in the household.
>
[quoted text clipped - 16 lines]
> one cat while leaving the other two older female cats
> relatively alone?

Try putting one of the males outside, and letting the other male and the
female learn to get along with each other......Perhaps the different dynamic
will change things.......

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