Reply #87: I hope he can offer you some useful advice.

[okasha]

I know it's easy to say from a thousand and half miles away, with a year-old Siamese the wildest thing in my own house, but try to hang in there with Ashiki. He's been a an affectionate house cat, and that means he can be one again. His behavior isn't all that different from that of a Siamese my dad brought home when I was--I think--in seventh grade. Her Air Force humans were being transferred to Germany and couldn't take her. She was fine in the car coming home, but when she got through the door and caught sight of one of her new sisters, she turned around and nailed him right in the upper lip. That was the end of his mustache, and the beginning of almost a week growling and snarling under my parents' bed and clawing at any feet that happened by. Didn't eat for two or three days that we could see, though may have come out at night to raid the other cats' dishes. The upshot was that she did aclimate, found her place in the hierarchy and settled down to be an affectionate if very demanding kitty. Now, she didn't weigh 25 pounds and wasn't fit to take your hand off (just a piece of my poor dad's face), but she did work out.

Here's continuing to hope the best for you and Ashiki.