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I have three cats at home, all male and all adult. While at college, I adopted another adult male cat, and now that I’m home for the summer, I need to introduce him to the other three so that they can all coexist peacefully for the next three months. I’ve been home for about 5 or 6 days now, and during this time he has stayed in my room with me, so that he can get used to this new environment and smell and talk to the other cats under the door before they meet. After about 4 days home, I started taking the new kitty and one of the older three into a different bedroom for about a half an hour at a time, just to see how they all react to each other, and to make sure I can easily intervene if needed. At this point, new kitty has met all three of the older ones, and it went like this:
1. first older cat hissed whenever new cat came near, hid under a desk and just watched the new cat walk around the whole time, not moving and just hissing when the new cat came close to the desk.
2. second older cat lay on the bed and watched new cat walk around, hissed about 3 times the whole half hour only when newer cat walked right up to him, but they did sniff each other for a couple seconds with no hissing, and for about 5 minutes both laid on the bed about two feet apart with no hissing.
3. third older cat hissed whenever new cat got within 5 feet of him, hid under a chair in the closet and was absolutely not having it.
However, through all this none of the older cats have shown any signs of aggression besides hissing, and the younger cat hasn’t hissed or shown a sign of aggression once. So now my question is, what is the next step? They’ve now all met but I still definitely do not feel comfortable just letting the new cat free in the house. I would love any advice or suggestions!! Thank you in advance
I have three cats at home, all male and all adult. While at college, I adopted another adult male cat, and now that I’m home for the summer, I need to introduce him to the other three so that they can all coexist peacefully for the next three months. I’ve been home for about 5 or 6 days now, and during this time he has stayed in my room with me, so that he can get used to this new environment and smell and talk to the other cats under the door before they meet. After about 4 days home, I started taking the new kitty and one of the older three into a different bedroom for about a half an hour at a time, just to see how they all react to each other, and to make sure I can easily intervene if needed. At this point, new kitty has met all three of the older ones, and it went like this:
1. first older cat hissed whenever new cat came near, hid under a desk and just watched the new cat walk around the whole time, not moving and just hissing when the new cat came close to the desk.
2. second older cat lay on the bed and watched new cat walk around, hissed about 3 times the whole half hour only when newer cat walked right up to him, but they did sniff each other for a couple seconds with no hissing, and for about 5 minutes both laid on the bed about two feet apart with no hissing.
3. third older cat hissed whenever new cat got within 5 feet of him, hid under a chair in the closet and was absolutely not having it.
However, through all this none of the older cats have shown any signs of aggression besides hissing, and the younger cat hasn’t hissed or shown a sign of aggression once. So now my question is, what is the next step? They’ve now all met but I still definitely do not feel comfortable just letting the new cat free in the house. I would love any advice or suggestions!! Thank you in advance