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We have a resident male cat, fixed two year old. He was a semi-feral that has come along wonderfully in the past eight months, but has a boredom problem. He's incredibly social and loves cat videos on Youtube, so we thought he'd benefit from a companion.
Yesterday, we brought in a fixed one year old female rescue. New mom with weaned babies. She is separated in a room of her own and it took our resident cat about twelve hours to notice something was up.
Now that he's noticed though, we can't pry him away from the new cat's door. He's not aggressive, he's just curious. Sitting outside, looking under the one inch gap under the door, and occasionally meowing.
The new cat is not too happy about this. New cat is already very, very sweet to us humans, playing, using the litter box and generally doing well, but hisses at our resident cat under the door when alone in the room. Resident cat does not respond to hissing, which is good. New cat is not eating yet and we're a little worried resident cat is stressing it out.
Our goal is to take these introductions SUPER slow. But I have two questions about what we should be doing right now:
1. Should I try to pry our resident cat away from the door and put him in another room? Or is it okay for him to be basically staking it out?
2. Should I cover the gap under the door with a towel so they have less of a view of each other right now? We can do scent exchanges later, but I'm worried the inch gap is too much of a visual for both of them.
Thanks for any suggestions! I'm sure we'll have many more questions as we go... Hopefully we can create two kittie friends.
Yesterday, we brought in a fixed one year old female rescue. New mom with weaned babies. She is separated in a room of her own and it took our resident cat about twelve hours to notice something was up.
Now that he's noticed though, we can't pry him away from the new cat's door. He's not aggressive, he's just curious. Sitting outside, looking under the one inch gap under the door, and occasionally meowing.
The new cat is not too happy about this. New cat is already very, very sweet to us humans, playing, using the litter box and generally doing well, but hisses at our resident cat under the door when alone in the room. Resident cat does not respond to hissing, which is good. New cat is not eating yet and we're a little worried resident cat is stressing it out.
Our goal is to take these introductions SUPER slow. But I have two questions about what we should be doing right now:
1. Should I try to pry our resident cat away from the door and put him in another room? Or is it okay for him to be basically staking it out?
2. Should I cover the gap under the door with a towel so they have less of a view of each other right now? We can do scent exchanges later, but I'm worried the inch gap is too much of a visual for both of them.
Thanks for any suggestions! I'm sure we'll have many more questions as we go... Hopefully we can create two kittie friends.