Originally Posted by Sunnydayz  Gizmo is actually pretty good other than responding to Lucy's taunting by barking at her. Lucy the cat is the major issue haha. I hand raised her from 2 days old, and I think because of that for 10 years she has never actually seen herself as a cat. I think that's the major problem here. She is not like an ordinary cat, she rides in the car, walks on a leash, when she could walk further she loved going to the dog park :-) she also jumps in my bath with me and wants to be involved in everything. What is really funny, is I have raised six litters of feral kittens and she's always been the mom to the babies, but with the full grown cats, she does not interact with them at all, she totally ignores them, like she is not one of them.
When I first got Gizmo she was great at being nice to him and running around playing with him. Once one of the other cats, bruiser, started showing interest in getting to know Gizmo, she stopped it by teaching Gizmo how to bark by taunting him, which scares bruiser to death. I think she thinks Gizmo is her puppy, even over us lol. It's like she's trying to overturn my training of Gizmo, with her own training of him. Gizmo was doing awesome, and still is when she's not around :-) he does know how to play fetch, sit and stay, use his potty pads (as long as Lucy has not stolen them from the holders). But it's like I have to keep retraining Gizmo because she gets in the middle and diverts his attention, so I have to chase Lucy upstairs to stop her :-) I can say, if you google, you won't find much info on how to teach your cat, that the puppy is not hers :-) I really can't use anything that makes loud noise, as Lucy is not afraid of anything, she will even go after the biggest dog at the dog park fearlessly, the noise also gives Gizmo the zoomies and makes him even more excited and playful, and loud. While on the other hand it scares the other 2 cats to death, to where they will only come down stairs to go potty in their box and eat, otherwise those 2 stay upstairs.
As I write this, Gizmo is sitting politely in his pen, with a toy in his mouth waiting for me to let him out, as I just got home from the doctors. Lucy is also waiting for me to let him out sitting right at the bottom of the stairs haha. The good news is I tested Lucy while I went to the drs, by leaving a potty pad out on a holder, that Gizmo had went potty on, and I came home and it was still in its holder. Another funny thing is this morning when I squirted Gizmo with the water bottle, Lucy was the one o leave him lone, almost like she did not want her puppy to get in trouble? Very strange lol. Hopefully Lucy will be good if I show her the water bottle and she won't want her puppy sprayed again lol. You really would need to meet Lucy o now what I mean when I say she is not a normal cat haha. Hopefully things get better, they seem to be right this minutes:-)
Thanks so much everybody for the help :-) |