Jaspurr

We're having some trouble with Jaspurr... :/

I think we didn't really think things through properly when moving him into our house and introducing our other cats to him. He's huge in comparison with the other two, my sister wondered if we were sure he wasn't half tiger! *lol*

When he first came to us we gave him shelter in the building-site that is to be the kids room, our bedroom (down stairs) and the small hallway in between the rooms. After he'd been checked out by the vet we let him out into the rest of the house and to meet the other cats...in hindsight we should have kept him where he was initially and brought our cats into his space.

Neither one of the Ossie or Charlie have fought overly hard for the down stairs which Jaspurr now is "claiming" as his....problem is...the cats toilet is downstairs! :/ And the fact that the other two don't put their paws down about it means that Jass is turning into a bit of a bully about his "territory"...

I knew Ossie was going to be a bit difficult to begin with, Charlie seems fine with Jaspurr most of the time, will share his food bowl etc. BUT he'll not use the toilet down stairs... He'll go outside or...in the bathroom cupboard! Oss on the other hand has used Erin's bed!! :[ So, little miss is now sharing her bed with her mum and dad because we haven't yet decided if it's worth getting another mattress for the crib she's in or if we should just go ahead and get her a big-girl bed.

The "final" straw was last Thursday, just before we were off to the "cabin" for the weekend...when we had a wet mattress AND a wet patch in the bathroom...AGAIN! We put a toilet for the cats upstairs and put J back into his first "area" in the basement...even when J's not out bullying the others they didn't use the down stairs toilet.

After the weekend, we've kept the cat loo upstairs (in the bath tub, out of kiddies reach) and we've not had any more "accidents"...but...I'm not sure we can keep this up... :/

What can we do to "un-territorise" Jaspurr? What's he going to be like when we all move down stairs into "his" space?? I've been twisting and turning this in my head and I'm not sure we can keep him...but we must find him another home, putting him down is out of the question! He's not to blame...and it's such a shame...'cus he's lovely really...

E.