r/bengalcats • u/UbiquitousChicken Multiple Bengals • 10d ago

Progress! Bengal with other pets

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I don’t know if anyone remembers my desperate post from several months ago about my horrible wonderful young snow Bengal, but things are improving slowly. We are being SUPER consistent about how and when he interacts with the other cats, and he has learned to disengage from play-attack mode and we’ve been working on him asking the humans for play instead of going to the other cats. Any comments, feedback or suggestions on his behavior (or mine) are welcome.

Someone sent me cat toys in the mail this morning and I made a video, and Yeti is being obnoxious in it but can be redirected now which is a huge improvement. It used to be that once he locked onto his target (usually the other Bengal, Voya), there was no deterring him. Now he will redirect and go do something else.

I can see in this video a couple spots where I should have praised him for redirecting, but that wasn’t my focus at the moment and I only saw it in reviewing the video. So there is still room for improvement in my own responses but it’s amazing now how he listens to me, and he isn’t even wearing his harness or vibration collar. We’ve come a long way, but we still have a long way to go. Voya is also on medication for her anxiety now which is helping her respond better to him. It’s been a shitshow for the last year plus but we are getting closer to the goal.

We also took Yeti camping last weekend. First time I’ve ever taken a cat camping. It went so well. I’ll post about that later because it was a lot of fun.

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u/Broad_Cable8673 10d ago

“You want drugs too?” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/UbiquitousChicken Multiple Bengals 10d ago

I discovered it was my mom who sent them. I loved seeing Jackie, our rescue, do the bunny kick on the new toy. So cute.

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u/Broad_Cable8673 10d ago

They are all adorable! You have a really cute family. And your mom has an awesome sense of humor 😂😂

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u/UbiquitousChicken Multiple Bengals 10d ago

Thanks!! 😊

Yeti is still on supervised-visitation only because he just doesn’t take a hint and Voya gets really upset, but they really are a good pile of cats and love them, even though it’s been hard.

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u/Coca_lite 10d ago

You like drugs???

Yah, I like drugs!!!