My husband, 15 yo daughter, and I were asked to take a 4 year old Bengal female, Mooshy. She belonged to a friend of my sister. We were told she was completely crazy and the owner couldn't stand her destroying his apartment. He even had her de-clawed, something I find reprehensible. We got her two months ago and during that time she has come to love me, my husband, and has a weird love/hate/tolerate relationship our non Bengal cat, HeeWhoo. She tolerates our daughter but isn't thrilled about her. We also have four dogs. Having had many animals over the years, we know how to introduce them. She has her own room (in our master bedroom so she is with us at night) and was slowly introduced to the cat first then the dogs. She was curious about the dogs and met them all individually then as a group. When we were ready to let her explore the house, she went right downstairs to investigate. Because HeeWhoo is feisty and fearless, the dogs are used to just walking right up to him so they did that to Mooshy. Mooshy got scared and hissed and one dog, Koda, barked, resulting in Mooshy retreating upstairs, never to go back down! Mooshy is not thrilled with the three dogs anymore, but will tolerate them upstairs, however, upon seeing Koda now she growls, hides, and doesn't come out of the room for days. Any advise? Also, we cannot find one toy Mooshy will play with!! She will chase the laser pointer for less than a minute, couldn't care less about any balls, feathers, catnip, anything. Ideas are appreciated.
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