Our 18 yr old cat (very tolerant of our kids btw) is in denial about our new addition of 1 week. She is mostly sleeping and pretending it hasn't happened, although she has now deigned to sleep in the same room.
We keep Scampi crated or in her ex-pen and I am fairly sure the cat is too arthritic to jump into it. However, she keeps hissing at the puppy and once when we had the two of them restrained on our knees on the floor, she took a swipe at Scampi's face - luckily only resulting in a squeal.
Any advice on how to get them to assimilate? They will obviously need to sort it out themselves, but I am anxious that Scampi doesn't get her eyes damaged.
I can see it will be tricky to make cat retreats high up because she has v stiff knees.
We keep Scampi crated or in her ex-pen and I am fairly sure the cat is too arthritic to jump into it. However, she keeps hissing at the puppy and once when we had the two of them restrained on our knees on the floor, she took a swipe at Scampi's face - luckily only resulting in a squeal.
Any advice on how to get them to assimilate? They will obviously need to sort it out themselves, but I am anxious that Scampi doesn't get her eyes damaged.
I can see it will be tricky to make cat retreats high up because she has v stiff knees.