Aggressive Cat(very long)
So 3 years ago i got 2 cats. Both very sweet. 1 year ago my roommate(im in a college housing set up) got a kitten, she got along well with my cats besides a few fights here and there, but nothing we couldn't handle. But the thing was the guy didn't take care of this cat at all. I ended up being the one the fed her and cleaned her litter box. She was mean to people besides me and my fiance and pooped all over her owners room and peed. It was gross but he never let her out of the room unless i let her out. Eventually he was kicked out of the house for many reasons but a big one was he never paid rent. He left her with us because he was homeless. The short amount of time she was with just us she became a different cat completely. Shes was thw nicest girl around. She got along with our Other roommates dogs and our cats and she loved people sooo much. The guy never came back for her. Well this past April my fiance and i had a stillborn. And when i was pregnant she started being more agressive. I chalked it up to the changes and what not and hoped she would settle down more. We got my ESA(emotional support animal) Dog shortly after the stillbirth.
We had a course on integrating the animals, trainings for in case the DOG had issues with the cats.
Also came to find out im pregnant again,very happy and thankful, jusy scared and have really bad anxiety overall. My first 2 cats have no issue with the dog what so ever, the dog has no problems with them either. At first the girl cat didntreally bother with her but over the course of a few months she now attacks the dog for no reason. The dog will be in the living room and the cat will run at her and start clawing her and biting her. We had to take the dog to the vet once because of how bad it was. And we brought the cat with us too to see what was going on. The dog stayed the night for observation and the cat as well. Were im from no matter the attack or species the animals need to be kept overnight if possible for rabis and behavioral reasons even with all their shots.
The vet simply told me sometimes animals don't get along and that there was nothing wrong with the cat. The dog had to stay a bit longer because some of the scratches were very deep.
I tried keeping them in seporate areas most of the time but its not fair to keep them confined like that, i can't find any cat trainers aplenty dog ones but the dogs not the problem. I talked to the vet about anxiety meds for the cat or maybe blankets or vests for her. He said that theres no signs of anxiety at all. Makes no sense to me. There has to be a reason shes attacking the dog. I looked into it myself but cant find any reason that the vet hasnt ruled out. And all the animals get plenty of exercises and loving each. For a bit things were calm but thats because i was able to have constant supervision of them and stop the cat before she would hurt the dog.
Last night the cat got into the dogs room idk how and hurt her very badly. I woke up to yips and wimpers and i walked into a bloody sene. I was lucky because it was only a cut on her head and head cuts bleed a lot. I got the bleeding to stop and my fiance and i cleaned all the blood up everywhere.
Then my fiance said the worst thing he every could about our animals. That we should find a new home for the cat. My sister agrees.
This cat never attacks the other dogs(that are my roommates) and has never hurt the other cats like this, just this dog. And the dog never retaliated ever.
I have never wanted to rehome any of my animals and still don't, but if we had to it would have to be the cat because the dogs a pitbull (say what you want about them you wont change my mind shes a sweet baby and after being attacked over and over has never harmed anything)
And with the stigma of pits i just know something bad will happen to her. Im also afraid the cat would try to harm the baby when it comes or that if we aren't too careful that the cat could get the dogs eye or big blood vane. And the thing is we both work and then a baby coming along.... The point is IF rehoming were to happen it would have to be the cat.
But i also want to go through all my other choices first so dose anyone have any advice or anything that i haven't done yet? Please all of these animals are my family and i don't want to do that to anyof them but if i cant figure something out....
Also im posting anonymously because i very much so am ashamed of even thinking of rehoming. But please nothing too mean?
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