What should we do?

[lvpets2002]

Yup tried that with my second intro babie & Well need I say more I didnt buy two gates to stack & the next thing I knew they had jumped over & were battling it out on opposite sides hey at least they got introduced real fast I wrote it off as a learning experiance..

Do have a couple of baby gates? Perhaps you can put them on top of eachother making a rather tall baby gate. That way they can see eachother and smell eachother but they can't attack eachother.

Just a thought.

P.S. I would watch over the cat bite since cat bites are pretty serious.

Good luck.

[catnapper]

Oh no! I can tell you from experience that cat bites are very serious! Please urge her ot get a tetanus shot and it looked at by a doctor - she might need intraveneous antibiotics.

As for introductions - letting them sniff at each other under the door will help them acclimate to the smell of each other. LEt them play footsies under the door. It might take a few weeks, it might take a few months, but it usually does eventually work. There is the rare occaion where one or both kitties just refuse to like the other.

[Barbara]

I am no help on the introduction side but I definitely recommend Alexa gets her tetanus shots and antibiotics.
However I know I would tell I wanted to catch a stray and he bit me- you know that Tuna is inside and I guess he's up to date on his shots- so bacteria from dirty cat claws is all you can get- no rabies.

[caseysmom]

Most likely the things they would do for a dog bite they won't do for a cat but I am not sure. I definetely would not avoid medical treatment thought that sounds like a bad bite.

[barncat]

I caught a bite from one of my own indoor only cats.... it infected and I went to the ER... The nurse reported it and the sheriff was called to the ER to investigate. Both the sheriff and I thought it was idiotic (the rule is to prevent animals from being a danger to the neighborhood and I just got bit in stopping a spat between my own pets).

Fortuneately my vet let me be my own "isolation" but did have to see the cat again in 2 weeks to say he did not develop any symptoms.

The sherriff and I decided in the future to blame all wounds on wire fencing.

You may end up having to go through legal hoops....

[catmandu]

Thats sad that thier reaction was so negative.
Tubby 2 and the Males have tangled but certainly not to that extreme.
We are Praying that you can get your Cats to at least tolerate and eventually like each other.
We wish you the Best Of Luck.

[Uabassoon]

The bite isn't looking too bad, Alexa went and saw her mom and she was given some antibiotics for it.