Hi there,
We have had our lovely boy George for 6 years now and we recently brought home our kitten, Larry. He’s been with us for 2 weeks now.
We slowly introduced them over the course of a week after Larry had been in his own room for a few nights but was desperate to explore the rest of the house. To start there was lots of hissing/growling from George but that has almost completely gone now.
George will swat Larry quite a bit and will sometimes charge at him and swat, then walk away. My only main concern is that there has been a few occasions when I think they are getting too rough (nervous cat mom), this seems to be when Larry has his zoomies and runs around, George runs at him and then there is a bit of hissing and tumbling around (this is the only time George hisses or gets annoyed at him). George’s back is never up/tail isn’t big so his body language seems okay.
I am just wondering if we are on the right track or if George actually hates Larry :-( neither of them seem stressed and have even slept in the same room together with George lying flat out on his back with tummy out. They even both sat on the sofa today!
I will try and put a wee video up too of when they have played on scratcher together, which to me seems okay.
Any advice would be much appreciated as I am feeling quite anxious I am doing something wrong.
Thanks,
Erin
We have had our lovely boy George for 6 years now and we recently brought home our kitten, Larry. He’s been with us for 2 weeks now.
We slowly introduced them over the course of a week after Larry had been in his own room for a few nights but was desperate to explore the rest of the house. To start there was lots of hissing/growling from George but that has almost completely gone now.
George will swat Larry quite a bit and will sometimes charge at him and swat, then walk away. My only main concern is that there has been a few occasions when I think they are getting too rough (nervous cat mom), this seems to be when Larry has his zoomies and runs around, George runs at him and then there is a bit of hissing and tumbling around (this is the only time George hisses or gets annoyed at him). George’s back is never up/tail isn’t big so his body language seems okay.
I am just wondering if we are on the right track or if George actually hates Larry :-( neither of them seem stressed and have even slept in the same room together with George lying flat out on his back with tummy out. They even both sat on the sofa today!
I will try and put a wee video up too of when they have played on scratcher together, which to me seems okay.
Any advice would be much appreciated as I am feeling quite anxious I am doing something wrong.
Thanks,
Erin
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