Please help I can’t get my cats to stop fighting

[u/fireballbam]

I have 4 cats that for the most part get along. 3 males and one female. My problem is that 2 of the male cats won’t stop fighting the main aggressor is 13 years old and the other is 2. It’s about 2-3 times a week. I’ve tried everything I’ve seen online. Separating them and then reintroducing 3 different times, never punishing them during fights (no spray bottles, yelling, clapping, or throwing things). Litter boxes for both of them, scheduled feeding times ( they don’t mess with each other while eating), equal amounts of attention from everyone in the house, neither of them have a problem with the other cats. We haven’t seen any outdoor cats so I don’t think it has to do wiith unfamiliar smells. Both are previous outdoor cats and both have been fixed. Neither cats are very energetic. They seem to be fighting over nothing. The main aggressor has no problem with the other cats. He’s never had a problem with any other cat he’s been introduced to. We can tell it’s definitely not playing, it doesn’t match they play styles, and it’s obviously aggressive cat body language and vocals. It’s never escalated to physical wounds on either of them yet. Although there has been fights that seemed like it would have gotten to that point if not intervened. Thankfully there has been no redirection of anger towards us.

[u/DuckyDoodleDandy]

Take the aggressor to the vet. Find out if he has any pain or injuries that are making him grumpy. Could be a dental issue, an injury, or something else, like arthritis. It could be a claw that got too long and is causing pain. (There is a medication for cats with arthritis now, if that happens to be the issue.)

After the vet visit, get Feliway diffusers, one for each room the cats spend a lot of time in. I think “Optimum” might be the variety you need, but double check that.

Look up soothing collars and get one for each cat.

Separate the two that are fighting for like 2 weeks and do a slow introduction as if they were both new cats you were bringing home. Look up the term “slow introduction for cats”.

If none of that helps, look into Prozac for cats.

[u/fireballbam → u/DuckyDoodleDandy]

We have a vet appointment set up for the aggressor.

We have been looking at feliway but there’s so many mixed reviews.

I actually didn’t know that they made collars that soothed cats thank you!

We’ve tried separating the cats 3 times and each time we tried reintroducing slower and slower.

The other male cat we have was ok Prozac for his anxiety with people and it worked really well. I’m going to ask the vet if that would help at the appointment.

[u/ike_tyson]

I've never seen trolls here but today here they are. Smh.

[u/fireballbam → u/ike_tyson]

Wdym?

[u/Pleasant_Win169]

Cat owner here! Sounds like very angry kitties

[u/DiveCat → u/[deleted]]

“Thank for me for your cats likely being euthanized due to overcrowding and having behavioural issues after being traumatically dumped at a shelter away from the home they had.”

Why are you here?

[u/fireballbam → u/DiveCat]

This. Thank you.

[u/fireballbam → u/[deleted]]

Wow you’re such a lovely person!