# How long before you decide your cats will not get along? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 21, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-you-decide-your-cats-will-not-get-along/450042 "2008-05-21T00:38:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-you-decide-your-cats-will-not-get-along/450042/21 "2008-05-21T23:56:07Z")
Well, we ain’t waiting no eight years, and we ain’t putting up with no prima donna pets. They exist in this house because _we_ enjoy their company. (Stokie is the sweetest cat imaginable to people, I must admit.) I will, however, give them a few months. ---
**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-you-decide-your-cats-will-not-get-along/450042/22 "2008-05-21T23:58:33Z")
We just stop what we are doing and watch them, I usually cheer them on. The cat fighting growling dropped from 3-4 a day to occasional bitchslaps . Cee-cee has always been the aggressor, but both cats find being cheered on too, too, demeaning. ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-you-decide-your-cats-will-not-get-along/450042/23 "2008-05-22T13:18:15Z")
I don’t necessarily condone this, it seems kind of cruel, but my sister’s boyfriend got her two cats to get along by locking them in a cat carrier together. Before that, the cats hated each other, frequently getting into knock-down, drag-out fights with fur a-flying. After about a day in the carrier, they came out as friends and will sleep together and groom each other. These are two males, I don’t know their ages. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-you-decide-your-cats-will-not-get-along/450042/24 "2008-05-22T17:14:19Z")
[QUOTE=WVmom] I don’t necessarily condone this, it seems kind of cruel, but my sister’s boyfriend got her two cats to get along by locking them in a cat carrier together. Before that, the cats hated each other, frequently getting into knock-down, drag-out fights with fur a-flying. After about a day in the carrier, they came out as friends and will sleep together and groom each other. These are two males, I don’t know their ages. [/QUOTE] Hmm. A carrier seems kind of mean (especially since Eddles is such a fatty) but a bathroom, on the other hand… I’ll give it some more time but consider this. Although I suppose it could make matters worse. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-you-decide-your-cats-will-not-get-along/450042/25 "2008-05-22T17:19:32Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] Hmm. A carrier seems kind of mean (especially since Eddles is such a fatty) but a bathroom, on the other hand… I’ll give it some more time but consider this. Although I suppose it could make matters worse. [/QUOTE] Now that I think on it, we’ve moved twice since aquiring the second cat, and each time we move, they get along a little better. And each time we move, they spend at least a couple of days together in the bathroom while we get the boxes unpacked (the male will pee in boxes and the female tends to run out of doors - neither is easy to deal with during a move!). I wonder if their time in the joint together makes 'em more friendly like. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-you-decide-your-cats-will-not-get-along/450042.md?page=1)