by treazure » Dec 5th, '08, 01:08
Na, you don't want to take them back. They might find their next home inside a large snake because the snake's owner is too cheap to buy rats for the reptile. Keep the girls in another room with food and water and litter box for a few days and let the three of them curse and hiss at one another under the door. About the time you cannot take one more yikking hissing or yowling one more minute, open a can of the best cat food you have, put it on a plate in three piles and deposit the cats in front of it. It might take a few tries or days to get them to accept one another, but once the male discovers that his new harem has come with canned tuna, I don't care how long he's been without ....er....um....the boys, a male cat is a male cat is a male cat. You wouldn't believe how the neutered boys and spayed girls will occasionally ...........er......... cohabit without possibility of kittens.
Now, the male may revert to spraying (even if he is neutered). This is just a dominance thing. (Kind of like why some men buy fancy cars since they cannot go driving around with something hanging out for all to admire. And why some men start wars....pi$$ing contest) In the twenty plus years of running a no kill shelter here, it is usually a lot easier to get opposite sexes to accept each other than same sex. Usually, not always, usually.
Ah yes, the dog person or persons living there with you. In our domicile are 4 large dogs. Gunny weighs in at a little under 120, about the height of a Great Dane. Since he was born here and all the queens in this house have a bad habit of robbing the nests of other cats (or dogs) for more babies, Gunny used to get dragged to Mamma Katz's nest when he was a baby. It was cute at first, becoming less so when he got large enough to lick slurp suckle mamma while pushing her across the floor.
Sooooooooo one night we had company and one of the new females was in heat and she was in isolation in the living room until she was spayed and had her shots. She was yowling and flopping on the floor and rolling around and all of a sudden Gunny was stradling her, with her entire head in his mouth and she was yowling and he was pushing her around the living room, trying his darndest to mate with her.
Then our shepherd mix pulled the afghan off the couch, wadded it up and started humping it.
The pastor and his wife left soon after that.........I never new why....and the cat and Gunny went in for surgery the next day.
So you might just want to go ahead and get the girls done pretty soon. You never know when the inlaws or your minister might show up.
Jeanne - I never met a tea pot I didn't like.
