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I'm new here, and looking for some advice. We currently have 2 kitties in our home - we adopted them from a shelter last year after our long time cat was attacked and killed by a raccoon.
They are mother and son. My female is a torti, spayed. She just turned 2 in September. She is super sweet and just adores us (especially my son) but she's kind of a stalker LOL - follows us around the house, meows/cries loudly if she sees one of her humans leave, and loves to lay in bed with any one of us, cuddling as close as possible. Her favorite thing is to be picked up and held like a baby while she gets kisses on her head. She is very much the alpha cat and demands attention from us a lot.
Our male cat will be 2 in April and is an orange tabby. When we got him, he was still a little kitten who was nursing. Fast forward a year, and he's now a big boy (meaning he's a little chunky and just big...big paws, very long tail) He is very laid back and mellow...a super lazy kitty who really just would prefer to nap more than anything else. He has a very sweet disposition as well...he will come to us for pets and chin scratches a couple times a day but he is no way near the level of "high maintenance" that his momma is. He is perfectly content just laying in a chair in my office all day...all I have to do is call his name and pet his head a little and he has major purring going on.
Now, here's the dilemma. We rescued a little kitten who is around 5 months old - he was attacked by either a larger cat or a dog and had a gash on his little face...it was heartbreaking. Nobody knows where this little guy came from - he showed up in our next door neighbor's yard, just wandering around, hungry and meowing. She cannot keep it because her child has allergies and asked if we could somehow help either find it a home or something and there was no way we could say no. One of the things that really tugged at my heartstrings is that this new little kitten is all white - and he looks like a mini version of our other kitty who died last summer. Her death left a huge hole in my heart which is still not healed, to be honest.
Anyway, so we decided to take our new kitten to the vet and get him checked out...so far so good. The kitten was also neutered while he's been at the vet, so when we get him back that will be all taken care of. (We are supposed to get him back in the next day or two...they were trying to get a fecal test done and couldn't get a good enough sample yet). This was all a big financial investment that I wasn't really prepared to make so close to the holidays, but we decided as a family that we HAD to take care of this poor baby.
We really want to keep this new kitten...but I am very nervous about how to introduce him into our current cat family. So I am hoping that someone can give some suggestions, tips, advice or is willing to share a similar experience of bringing a kitten into a similar home. I've heard lots of advice that females take to kittens easier some times, etc...but I honestly don't know what to expect here.
Can someone share some advice on how we can make this as painless as possible? Thank you in advance!
I'm new here, and looking for some advice. We currently have 2 kitties in our home - we adopted them from a shelter last year after our long time cat was attacked and killed by a raccoon.
They are mother and son. My female is a torti, spayed. She just turned 2 in September. She is super sweet and just adores us (especially my son) but she's kind of a stalker LOL - follows us around the house, meows/cries loudly if she sees one of her humans leave, and loves to lay in bed with any one of us, cuddling as close as possible. Her favorite thing is to be picked up and held like a baby while she gets kisses on her head. She is very much the alpha cat and demands attention from us a lot.
Our male cat will be 2 in April and is an orange tabby. When we got him, he was still a little kitten who was nursing. Fast forward a year, and he's now a big boy (meaning he's a little chunky and just big...big paws, very long tail) He is very laid back and mellow...a super lazy kitty who really just would prefer to nap more than anything else. He has a very sweet disposition as well...he will come to us for pets and chin scratches a couple times a day but he is no way near the level of "high maintenance" that his momma is. He is perfectly content just laying in a chair in my office all day...all I have to do is call his name and pet his head a little and he has major purring going on.
Now, here's the dilemma. We rescued a little kitten who is around 5 months old - he was attacked by either a larger cat or a dog and had a gash on his little face...it was heartbreaking. Nobody knows where this little guy came from - he showed up in our next door neighbor's yard, just wandering around, hungry and meowing. She cannot keep it because her child has allergies and asked if we could somehow help either find it a home or something and there was no way we could say no. One of the things that really tugged at my heartstrings is that this new little kitten is all white - and he looks like a mini version of our other kitty who died last summer. Her death left a huge hole in my heart which is still not healed, to be honest.
Anyway, so we decided to take our new kitten to the vet and get him checked out...so far so good. The kitten was also neutered while he's been at the vet, so when we get him back that will be all taken care of. (We are supposed to get him back in the next day or two...they were trying to get a fecal test done and couldn't get a good enough sample yet). This was all a big financial investment that I wasn't really prepared to make so close to the holidays, but we decided as a family that we HAD to take care of this poor baby.
We really want to keep this new kitten...but I am very nervous about how to introduce him into our current cat family. So I am hoping that someone can give some suggestions, tips, advice or is willing to share a similar experience of bringing a kitten into a similar home. I've heard lots of advice that females take to kittens easier some times, etc...but I honestly don't know what to expect here.
Can someone share some advice on how we can make this as painless as possible? Thank you in advance!