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Thank you for the suggestions!! We will start treat training them today with the beds and hopefully 2nd cat can have her bed back!

Hello all! Everything has been going pretty well in the household now that we are about a year since we introduced the 2nd cat. The resident cat still shows dominance behavior like walking up and smacking the other in the face for no good reason. But they do chase each other around and play and...

We introduced a 3 year old to our 1 year old cat. Not quite adult adult but not kittens either! The 3 year old took probably I would say 3 months or so before she was really comfortable in the house. She would spend anywhere from 2-3 weeks in a new hiding spot as she slowly progressed her way...

Hello everyone! I wanted to chime back in here as an update with cat intros plus share some pictures. It’s been about 10 almost 11 months now with our two cats. M1 resident cat who is almost 2. M2 is new cat who is about 3.5 years old. (their real names are Mango and Melon but I’ve always...

We are at about month 6 of introducing the two cats. They play practically daily (chasing each other back and forth). They will lay in the same vicinity but not snuggled. I would say the closest they’ve laid together was recently on our bed at night about a foot away from one another. Previous...

Good luck with you reintroductions!!

So those photos are now at the 4.5 month mark. We kept the new cat completely secluded in her room for the first week. After that we spent another 2 weeks site swapping with supervised time together. Then they pretty much had 24/7 access to each other. Our resident cat was a bullying a bit too...

Yes we are beyond happy it's gotten to this point! It can seem pretty bleak when people first start out with introductions, especially I feel like if neither of the cats are little kittens.

Have you tried playing with Radish in the room while Ulu is there? That's how we first introduced our resident kitty to our new cat. We opened the safe room door and then tried distracting her with play.

I had a previous post on here asking for help with our two cats M1 and M2 (Mango and Melon). We got M1 first as a 6 month old kitty and after half a year we brought in M2 who is about 3 years old. Integration was rough to start. But things have improved steadily and slowllyyyy. Just as...

Be patient! It'll be a slow slow process especially if the cats are not kitten age. We are currently almost at 4 months since we brought our new cat home. The two of them have sort of an understanding. They can sleep at the same time on dining chairs across from each other. They can take turns...

The best thing that worked in the beginning was double sided tape. After feeling the stickiness, she stopped for a while. It took FOREVER for us to get all the sticky residue off our counters... One portion of the counter where she can reach the fridge, we just put a bunch of things on there so...

You could try keeping Stormy with you at night in the bedroom and letting Sammy roam around the rest of the apartment? (I'm assuming it's one bedroom and not a studio, sorry if I misunderstood!) What personally helped for ours was letting the new cat have time to explore without the threat of...

I have a post about introducing my two cats if you want to glance through. I have M1 (Mango) who is about 1.5 years old now and M2 (Melon) is our new cat who is about 3. M1 also loves chasing/stalking M2 and M2 usually hisses/growls with her ears flat. Recently she's been standing up for herself...

I just wanted to give probably my final update for anyone dealing with cat introductions! 11 week mark. M2 now regularly hangs out in the living/kitchen area. She’s even climbing up on M1’s cat tree by the window fairly regularly. They touch noses more often and we feed them side by side. M2...

Ours does this too. Our resident cat will wait until the new cat is not looking and she sneak attacks. She doesn't always swat but runs up and "stands tall" like making herself taller. We think like danteshuman says it's a mix of dominance and boredom. Ours has a lot, a lot of energy so we have...

HUGE update! M2 has been hanging around with us in the living and kitchen areas the last three days. She’s found some new hiding spaces and defensible spots. She still slinks mostly along the edges but she’s definitely gaining more confidence! M1 seems to have accepted her more in this area as...

I want to say I think so but I’m not sure. We still keep them separated at night and M2 does poop in another box every night so far; we see it in the morning. I’m not sure if we’ve seen a huge difference but they have both been using the new box.

Thank you everyone for your personal experiences and reassurance! All great things to hear. We will definitely continue to monitor both of them.

If you know my previous post, we are introducing our two cats. Our new cat M2 has been getting braver overtime. She’s come downstairs on her own more often and will hang out on the stairs more often when we are home versus hidden in our bedroom. We still have several instances where our...