One dominating cat (mother of gone Buttje) is still chasing our 2 other darlings.

We've kept all kinds of menageries too, so I will take the liberty of addressing this. IMO Buttje's mama is just being herself within the hierarchy they have agreed to maintain. Cooperation doesn't always look like we human beans expect it to look. If she chases (challenges) and they scuttle (yield), that's their form of cooperation. Non-cooperation would be if she chases and they spray or fight back or otherwise mount a major challenge. And that too would yield eventually to an agreed hierarchy, unless the human beans intervene in such a way as to keep it from settling down.


TRUBRIT, it sounds like you have all the right pieces in place. The challenge is keeping the boundaries that start off so well from becoming blurred boundaries of how it used-to-was.

~Susan