cimorene

We thought they were getting better and decided to allow him to approach her when I was just holding her in my arms and Wax was walking beside him. I was just saying "It's okay, he can't get you because my arms are in the way!" because she was constantly growling when he launched across the gap faster than he could be grabbed and pounced and bit her head, which was the only part of her not covered by my arms and hands. My hand got scratched in the process, but they both seem relatively unharmed. And now they're in total isolation, not even allowed to meet through gates or bags or crates, for the weekend at minimum. We've talked to the breeders about it, and they say we were doing everything right and not to be discouraged. Two of their other cats, (Anubis's former best friend and Tristana's ...babysitter?) Sipuli and (Tristana and Anubis's uncle) Nokke, took even longer to become friends than this, so we just have to keep trying (and sleeping in separate rooms etc etc... one of them actually slept in a separate room for months with Tristana when she was an infant and Sipuli).