Fuzzy experiment #3

[joflasher]

Results - not good. Fight, bath, more fighting, Midori getting her butt kicked. Midori retreating under a towel for over an hour, defending it from all comers, including me. Midori becoming a shaking, screaming, psychotic ball of fuzz when touched by any living creature. Midori getting sick and throwing up all through Tira's cage.

Midori just isn't having a good time at this. Before, Midori was always the aggressor and Tira would just defend herself. Now Tira is attacking Midori and Midori is running away and doing the above. I think Tira has decided that Midori is mean and should be beaten up or something. I'm pretty sure Midori getting sick last night was a result of furballs, since she's had 4 baths in 3 days and each bath is followed by massive amounts of licking.

Future plans - keep switching them between cages so they get used to one another's smell. Make sure that they each get plenty of time to run and play before I put them together so neither of them is especially energy filled. Give them both lots of furball remedy. *sigh* I want my happy, friendly, playful fuzzies back. And I don't want to have to break Midori's little brain with fear to do it.

Comments

[jnanacandra.livejournal.com]

A similar thing happened with my cats last year. Mithril went to the groomer's to get some nasty mats cut out, and when she came back Dingbat didn't recognize her anymore. By the time Dingbat got used to her again, Mithril hated Dingbat and would hiss and swat any time she came near. It took over a month before they acted completely normally again, but they did figure things out eventually.

Granted, these were cats, not ferrets, but I still think there's hope :)

[flasher.livejournal.com]

Hissing I can handle...its the all out war that's getting to me. I think it sounds worse than it is, though. I just can't seem to let them fight it out without interfering. I'm too afraid one of them will get hurt.