AboutNorman Auspitz Expertise I can answer most non-veterinary questions about cats. My particular expertise is pedigree cats, breeding and showing. However, I am versed in feline behavior, cat breeds and their characteristics, general feline husbandry, and the like.
Experience I judged for the Canadian Cat Association from 1975 until 1982. I am currently an approved allbreed judge for the Cat Fanciers'' Association (the world''s largets cat registry), and have been judging for them since 1991. I have been breeding pedigreed cats since 1971 and have been exhibiting pedigreed cats in shows since 1970. I obtained my first pedigreed cat in 1970 and have never looked back. In 1971, I obtained my first Abyssinian which has become my primary breed. In addition, I have bred Manx and Persians. Currently, besides the Abyssinians, I am also breeding Maine Coons.
Organizations Cat Fanciers'' Association, inc. (CFA) and the Manx, Maine Coon, and Abyssinian breed councils. I am currently Abyssinian breed council secretary.
Publications Cat Fancy Magazine, The Abyssinian Chapter in The Cat Fanciers'' Association Complete Cat Book, and Articles for various editions of The Cat Fanciers'' Association Yearbook
Education/Credentials I received a B.S. from Drexel University in 1968, a M.Math from University of Waterloo, in 1970, a Ph.D. from University of Waterloo in 1975, and a MBA from McMaster University in 1980. I received my approved allbreed judging status in the Cat Fanciers'' Association in 1999.
Awards and Honors We have produced a number of Cat Fanciers'' Association (CFA) National winning Abyssinian and Maine Coons. We have produced a number of Abyssinian and Maine Coon Distinguished Merit females (an award for a top producing cat), including the first Distinguished Merit Abyssinian in the red (sorrel) color. I am the CFA Abyssinian breed council secretary and belong and/or hold office in a number of cat clubs. I am also a member of the CFA Judges Association.
Question We adopted a rescue cat 3mo ago, we just adopted another one. Our problem is...the first one feels the need to eat all the time, the other eats only when hungry. The first eats his food and then proceeds to eat the other. Can this relationship work? We tell him no, take him away, but nothing so far works. This is stressing us out.
Thanks, maybe you know how to make this relationship work.
Answer Catherine,
First of all NO is meaningless to cats!!!!! Cats also do not do well with negative discipline.
The only way out iof the problem is to get them on the same feeding time table.
Usually, by not doing anything, it might all work out as the cat sho is used to grazing discovers that he is going hungry because he is not getting his share. Usually, the first one should figure out he has to speed up eating to get his proper share. It also may behoove you to feed the separately and anything left over after the second one finishes gets tossed! This way the first one will learn that to get his fill, he will have to eat a bit more quickly. Anyway, you get the idea.
