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Hey, i hope there is someone who can help me and give good advice about my cat Flea.
Flea was a stray kitten and was in very bad shape when we found him on the street. He hardly had any hair and was such a little scruff ball, that's why we named him Flea. Shortly after we took him in he became this playfull, cute little friendly kitten who loved playing hide and seek, and would basically play with anything we gave him. He grew a beautiful coat of pitch black fur and became shiny and fluffy.
Then about 1½ years later we took in another kitten who we though was a female, because that's what we were told, and were none the wiser.
Flea and Joker were fine with eachother almost instantly, but then as time went by, Flea started to become very unfriendly towards Joker.
Joker is extremely playful and very lovable, and just wants to play with Flea all the time, but Flea keeps attacking him.
Flea has changed towards us as well and won't even come near us anymore. When we try to give him attention and play with him he hisses at us and runs away. He spends most of his time under the couch or outside.
This has seriously broken my heart, because i love him so much and i really don't know what to do to get him back to normal again.
Can anyone please help??? (link)
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It sounds like flea is jealous. I would suggest locking joker in a room while you spend a little time with flea. try taking some tuna to him while he is under the couch he will eventually learn to trust you again and hopfully he wont feel as left out since he is getting 1 on 1 attention and joker isnt. and then go to the room joker is in and quitly give joker some attention so he doent feel left out
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You won't believe it, but since we got Flea neutered and started giving him a lot of attention he's personality has started to change back he's old self again. We also got a lot of cat nip toys and a big bag of cat nip to sprinkle all over the house. We bought another thing called feliway, that you plug into the wall and it lets off possitve pheromones and that has helped a lot as well. Flea is no longer spraying on everything and is actually getting along with Joker. But he still lets Joker know who is boss. We had to keep joker in our room for a while to give flea some space and let him come out of his shell, and that worked out great. Thank you for your advice. I was really get worried that i was going to have to give one of my angels away. And that would've killed me!!!
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