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Originally Posted by htismaqe
By the way, don't forget about yourself in trying to get them to get along. One of the ways you can help is to show them both attention and love so they're focused on you and not each other.
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It's always a balancing act. I don't want to show so much attention to the new one that he gets jealous, although there's probably no way to avoid it. Before Apollo died I'd often get all three of them jockeying for position next to or on top of me when I went to bed, and sometimes they'd all get pissed off that the others were there and all three would jump off the bed. Cats are kind of selfish by nature.
But this new cat is mainly for him, not us. His behavior has changed over the past couple of weeks and I don't want that to devolve into anything negative/destructive. The idea of having multiple cats is for them to entertain each other, but it doesn't always work. I just hope I don't end up with three standoffish cats, because I really don't want to ramp it up to four again.