Uncle Augie
It's been a month of conflict and uneasy peace since one-year-old Creamy earned his indoor privilege alongside my longtime 8 year old indoor/outdoor cat Augie, and they were both given a cat door (which took about 2 weeks of training to get them to use, first with a fully open flap) to go indoors and outdoors into the fully enclosed back yard at will. This is a dream for both cats! Creamy to come in and Augie to freely go out, and both enjoy the new privilege more than anything. It has always seemed to me that Augie has been less aggressive, though he has apparently held on mostly to declaring the bedroom areas as his territory. Creamy claims the living room and kitchen now, though for a brief moment they were both sleeping on the side couch in the living room (which had been my goal, though I allowed alternatives). There was only one day or so after the beginning (when Creamy had seemed sick from a fight elsewhere and the heat and perhaps neighbor's rotting tras...