We adopted a new cat 4 months ago. She's an adult cat who had little experience with other cats but we figured we would try it out because she needed a home and the owner had been looking for awhile. We have 3 other cats so we have been through this before. She was introduced slowly to each cat. They are all female cats as well. At the time the new cat was fixed and 2 of ours were fixed and 1 was not. The introductions went pretty well at first. We kept the new cat in her own room with her own food, water, box, and toys. This is still her space and only allow the cats she gets along with to be with her. She adjusted pretty well, one of our cats she doesn't mind, one of them is now her best friend but the last one is very aggressive towards her and she wasn't at first. We ended up getting our last cat fixed and after that it got bad she now will attack the new cat on sight no matter what and it's always instant we have to fly to break it up. We keep them separate at all times at this point. But its getting harder to do and we also think its very unfair to our new cat. We have tried slowly introducing them again starting with scents, treats, and supervised visits but nothing is working our cat is relentless on attacking our new cat. None of the cats have gotten hurt yet but we don't want it to escalate and one of them eventually hurt. We currently keep putting them in each others spaces so they can get used to each others scents, we don't do face to face because it doesn't work. Even through a door our cat will attack the new cat by shoving her paws under and hitting the door, if we try to give them treats for good behavior they won't eat them. They used to be able to sit in the same room together and now they can't. Also the new cat never attacks, she just runs away but our cat will chase her down and attack her. We're at the point of contacting her old owner to see if we can figure something out because we don't want her stressed like this but she's already very attached to my husband and my one cat. We are open to all suggestions or opinions, maybe we're doing something wrong or maybe they just can't get along. I've tried doing research but it all says the same things about reintroducing and we're trying it all. We want to find out how to fix this so no one has to be separated. Thank you in advance.
We have looked into the feliway plug in but see such mixed reviews so we're a little hesitant. We've looked into collars but are also hesitant because of chemicals.
More information on our cats: Female, fixed, 6 years old, had since she was a kitten. Female, recently fixed, 5 years old, had since she was a kitten. (The aggressive one) Female, fixed, 3 years old, adopted her when she was a year old. Female, fixed, 1 year old. (Our new cat)
Our cats have never had a problem with each other so this is very new to us. The only problem is with our 5 year old and the new cat other than that there are no other problems.
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