What is wrong with my Cat?

Question

Ok, I have a 1 year old cat named Mackenzie and we adopted her when she was 3 months old, 4 months later we adopted Darwin and he was 2 1/2 months old at the time. They started off really rough and fought all the time. Before Darwin came into the picture Mackenzie was very affectionate..she loved to sit on our laps and be petted, and sleep with us. Her and Darwin have managed to coexist with each other and even play together..They still can get pretty rough with one another but Mackenzie is often very skittish or paranoid. She doesnt sit with us much or sleep with us. She is loving still at times but not they way she use to be. Her and Darwin sleep together sometimes and can be loving to one another....What is wrong with her?

They are both spade...

She is Female and he is a Male.

Answer 1

Cats are sensitive. They don't like there territory being invaded. she was the only cat for 4 months and she got all the attention.. you ad another cat to the mix and you create Jealousy. Give her more time and she should warm up to everyone again!

Answer 2

I went thru the same thing with a cat I had after I adopted a kitten. It was like she had an overactive thyroid or something after the new kitten came into my home. She actually grew a little bigger even though she was already full grown, and she went from being a sweetheart to always being aggressive and high strung. I've learned in life that indoor cats develop psychological problems sometimes because it's so un-natural for them to be restricted to the indoors.

Answer 3

I used to have that same problem. I had a cat named Fluffy and we have had her since she was a little kitten. When she was about 5 we got another cat named Cocoa. They fought all of the time and Fluffy stopped showing affection toward us. We asked the vet about it and she told us that Fluffy was used to getting all of the attention, and when we brought Cocoa into the family she felt like her territory was being invaded. She hated Cocoa for that and was mad at us for it. Finally after about a year she stopped hating us, although she is not as affectionate as she once was toward us. She still doesn't like Cocoa very much after 7 years but she doesn't hate her as much. I would say just to keep giving her attention and just give her time. Good luck!

Answer 4

Sounds like Mackenzie was your "dominant female" and she might feel that she was supplanted, in a sense, so things are not the same to her as far as her feelings towards you.

It's great that's she's learned to co-exist with the new guy but she can't be forced to act like she did before.

It's sort of like getting a new baby. Nothing is ever the same after that, for the parents...and the siblings. Relationships change.

Answer 5

cats are very teritorial animals it sometimes can take a very long time and sometimes they wont like each other. and the one cat that was already there well guess what shes pissed off at you for putting another cat in the picture. I have one cat that every time i came home from the hospital with my babies he would take off for a week or more.

Answer 6

cats are really teritorial they dont like other cats in their house i had the same problem when i had all of my cats the afer a while they started to love eachother

one thing that really helped was i locked them in a room alone together with food water and a cat litter and they learned to like eachother

Answer 7

She is feeling left out. Try to give her lots of attention and she'll go back to normal. This happened to one of my cats.

Answer 8

She feels that you have taken that cat in and love him more than her. She feels that your are putting her at a lower level, than when she was alone.

Best,
David