Hi all!
I have a 1 year 10 month old persian cat and she has been the only cat in the house since we got her. I am about to foster/possibly adopt a rescue kitty who was really mistreated and sick but has since been healed and looked after by his rescuer. He is roughly 6 to 7 months old and looks slightly bigger than our cat in the pics (though we are gonna go see him tomorrow).
We have fostered some cats before in (2 females and 1 male) at separate times which our cat kinda freaked out even after slowly introducing (keeping separately etc) - she was starting to tolerate the male just before we finished fostering. The next cat we wanted to foster/adopt was a much smaller kitten so our cat can be less intimidated but this bigger cat really needs a home and I followed his story since he was rescued, my heart goes out to him.
I am wondering if a larger male, even though he is younger, will completely intimidate my cat? Right now she is obviously the boss of the house and very bossy etc which just adds to her character, we love her so much and I am worried she will just submit to the new cat.. Maybe this sounds silly, I'm not sure!
Need to add they are both spayed/neutered also!
Anyways any advice would be most welcome. Thanks
I have a 1 year 10 month old persian cat and she has been the only cat in the house since we got her. I am about to foster/possibly adopt a rescue kitty who was really mistreated and sick but has since been healed and looked after by his rescuer. He is roughly 6 to 7 months old and looks slightly bigger than our cat in the pics (though we are gonna go see him tomorrow).
We have fostered some cats before in (2 females and 1 male) at separate times which our cat kinda freaked out even after slowly introducing (keeping separately etc) - she was starting to tolerate the male just before we finished fostering. The next cat we wanted to foster/adopt was a much smaller kitten so our cat can be less intimidated but this bigger cat really needs a home and I followed his story since he was rescued, my heart goes out to him.
I am wondering if a larger male, even though he is younger, will completely intimidate my cat? Right now she is obviously the boss of the house and very bossy etc which just adds to her character, we love her so much and I am worried she will just submit to the new cat.. Maybe this sounds silly, I'm not sure!
Need to add they are both spayed/neutered also!
Anyways any advice would be most welcome. Thanks
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