They both have a lot of energy, but RC takes a lot of time to warm up to new cats, while NC do not it seems. We know it is not a perfect match. But we don’t really want to return her as of now, they have not been given a proper shot yet I feel like, and progress has been made. It will probably...
So last week we just did interactions by the baby gate. Lots of playing, which they both loved. I think RC is a bit more secure now, there has been no hisses. When NC turns her back or RC sees that NC is not looking, RC will come all the way up to the gate. NC will usually go back to the gate...
Thank your for your perspectives! I guess that is what we tried for, just let them interact, but it might have been a bit early. And RC just hid, so it was not that much progress. It was only a couple of evenings we tried though.
NC do have crazy play drive. She runs around playing, and loves...
Thank you, will absolutely do that when trying without the gate again! <3
We are not ready to give it up just yet. We have had SOME (smaller) progress the last 7 weeks. And RC seems OK after they have had not so great interactions. After NC is put in another room, it takes maybe 5-10 minutes...
We will definitely stop NC from approaching RC after meal times. She will not ALWAYS go to her after the meals, one time, RC was finished first and then started to eat from NC plate, and then NC just backed off. Not always easy to understand them!
Thank you for your reply! Maybe I was a bit unclear, we did not continue fostering. We returned our last foster cat (who attacked RC) in August. Then we did not have any cats, until our now adopted New Cat, which we adopted in December. She was not our foster, but was in a different foster home...
Hi, we decided to stop fostering so that she would not need to go through a lot of introductions, because the are the introduction periods that are hard on her. So yes, we could keep fostering, until the right fit came along, but that could also give her a lot of stress, with many introductions...
Hi!
We (my boyfriend and I) have two cats, I’ll reference to them as resident cat (RC) and new cat (NC). Our RC is a 1 1/2 female and NC is a 2 year old female. RC was our foster cat who we ended up adopting. She has been around other fosters we have had, and it has usually been good, except...