The Peacemaker

I got the very interesting task the other day to make 2 cats that hate each other make peace. I have actually had this task before in my life and it worked that time, so of course I have started to think of myself as "the animal peacemaker" (would be a great show on Animal Planet :)) Anyways the ritual started with the clipping of toenails, which is a very crusial part of the peacemaking process. Then the cats were put in the bathtub together (no water) and prevented to get out (any confined space will do). The idea was that eventually they would give up the grudges and make peace, and in the case of a cat fight nobody would actually get injured. The outcome on the other hand was not that they actually made any peace, they just hissed at each other for about an hour, they also realized that we were not allowing them to go anywhere so needless to try that. Eventually they both decided that no point in doing anything at all and closed there eyes and pretended to sleep. In that mode still every sound would produce a hiss from either of them and when one hissed the other one hissed too. This is still a work in progress and a few more "sessions" are needed for progress to show or for the whole thing to be deemed a lost cause.