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RE: intro of new cat into TINY apartment

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Posted by: NYC_NYIfan at Sun Sep 17 18:32:25 2006  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by NYC_NYIfan ]  
   

I live in a tiny studio apartment .... when I adopted Justin (an adult male fixed cat), he showed that he was a bit of a bully. Before Cathy could truly assert her TUDE, I did not realize that you should not put both LBs close enough that the more aggressive cat could close off both of them at once.
Now it is possible that Cathy would have had a bad stones episode anyway ... she had had cystitis before Justin, and her family tree included a male littermate who developed struvite crystals that caused him to be blocked (he was successfully treated for that). But I mistakenly put the two LBs close to each other at first, only to have her develop a very bad stones episode that ended up needing surgery. I do believe that Justin harassed Cathy enough that she held off using the LB and precipitated stones as a result (Cats were also eating dry fud at that time; have been converted to eating canned fud since her surgery last summer).
So now I have the two LBs at opposite ends of the apartment ... even though one of them is in the main room next to the HSCB. OK, that's my experience, FWIW. Faye


   

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