hello! i'm new to the site, i just registered. greetings! i am the happy owner of a siamese mix and a mutt (half persian, half i'm not sure?). they are named thing 1 and thing 2, from the characters in the dr. seuss book! they are a little over a year old.
my boyfriend just brought home 2 bengal kitties. we live in separate apartments, but he is at work often and we were hoping i could have all four cats at my apartment to attend to.
unfortunately, thing 2 has always been a VERY timid cat. she startles easily, and spends a lot of her day hiding. she is NOT happy about the kittens. she hisses and growls at them, and she refuses to do anything in the house while they are there but scamper from hiding place to hiding place. she makes a deep, low growl and won't let me touch her. the kitties spent five or so hours at my house yesterday, and she spent the time hissing, growling, and hiding. once the kitties left, she seemed to be fine.
i was hoping to have the kitties at my house often, is this not going to be possible due to the way thing 2 handled their arrival? is there anything i can do to make the cats get along? the kitties seem to have no problem with the cats! thing 1 seemed to be a bit frightened of them in the beginning, but nothing as problematic as the situation with thing 2.
ANY advice on how i could get thing 2 to warm up to the kittens (or even just to come out of hiding and tolerate their presence without growling)? i was really hoping to spend time with all four cats!
THANKS SO MUCH!
<3,
kali
my boyfriend just brought home 2 bengal kitties. we live in separate apartments, but he is at work often and we were hoping i could have all four cats at my apartment to attend to.
unfortunately, thing 2 has always been a VERY timid cat. she startles easily, and spends a lot of her day hiding. she is NOT happy about the kittens. she hisses and growls at them, and she refuses to do anything in the house while they are there but scamper from hiding place to hiding place. she makes a deep, low growl and won't let me touch her. the kitties spent five or so hours at my house yesterday, and she spent the time hissing, growling, and hiding. once the kitties left, she seemed to be fine.
i was hoping to have the kitties at my house often, is this not going to be possible due to the way thing 2 handled their arrival? is there anything i can do to make the cats get along? the kitties seem to have no problem with the cats! thing 1 seemed to be a bit frightened of them in the beginning, but nothing as problematic as the situation with thing 2.
ANY advice on how i could get thing 2 to warm up to the kittens (or even just to come out of hiding and tolerate their presence without growling)? i was really hoping to spend time with all four cats!
THANKS SO MUCH!
<3,
kali