I am still trying to find a good new home for my cat. He has some problems at current foster family as follows as noted at my first note.

Now I have to disclose the problem more in detail. Because I would like to be fair to the potential adoptor and to my cat. Can he still have a chance to have a new good home?

Part 1 :
My cat, Tigger, is 5 yrs old, medium size, male, neutered, Japanese bobtail. He is very playful, and still like a baby, loves to be petted, and loves attention.
We adopted him with his brother when they were a few weeks old. We already had one medium size cat which was a few years older than him. We had a baby boy. He grew up with cats. We all had lived together with no problem. Unfortunately, my husband was transferred to Australia October, 2003. The quarantine for Australia is very strict (6 months), and we he got transferred we knew that we would be in Australia for less than a year. We had no intention to give cats away. So, we looked around and found 3 families to look after each of our cats, while we are gone. Tigger went to one of my very good friends, Kathy, who also loves animals. She has 2 cats and one dog, and 3 children. Unfortunately, Kathy says Tigger is not getting along well with her cats. Especially, one of them is 14-15 years old, and she does not like �grough�h play. In an effort to try and deal with the situation, she took him to the vet. The vet felt that Tigger was probably nervous and not happy at her place. Also, I wonder if I had pampered him too much, and that at my friend�fs house he wasn�ft getting enough love and attention.

Part 2:
I hate to disclose these facts, as noboy will take him if the potential adoptors know these....
Kathy says that Tigger has litter problems. He is soiling everywhere in her house. (He never ever had this problem before with us.)
He tears up the curtain. He tears up his blanket when he was put in his cage. (I know he is upset, but I have never seen him that upst before.)
He eats dog food and gets sick.
And, he attacked the dog, which Kathy has adopted form a sheltor just about the same time as Tigger. The size of the dog is bigger than him. (I can not imagine. Plus, we did not have any dogs.)
Tigger has been given antidepressant for 2 weeks, but Kathy says it does not work.

Now, Tigger totally ruined Kathy's welcome. I asked Kathy to put Tigger in a kennel.

Do you think still he has a chance to find a new home?
Is his reaction too agressive to be called normal upset?
Do you still think he can be a playmate with a younger male cat?
What about the home comes with 2 cats not one? Can this be a stress?
Can there be any chance that he goes to a home with a dog?
If so, what breed/sex/size/personality would be possible?

He is very special to me. I would like to find him a good home, with minimum stress as possible.

Thank you very much for putting up with the long story.

Yasuko

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