Hi all. We got a new addition to our family yesterday. We've named him Ghost. He is appropriately 2 years old. He was found outside and is considered a stray. A concerned community member called the SPCA.
He was neutered about 2.5 weeks ago, and has been quarentined since then. He had FIV/FELV testing at the beginning of May which was negative. He's very social but also just odd with what he doesn't seem to know about.
Resident cats:
Magnus: 3yrs old, we've had him since he was 5 months. Nervous but bounces back quickly.
Calcifer: almost 2 years old. Mojo king-of-the-house cat.
We would not have started intros right away but he was already quarentined and he settled very well. He ate, drank water, used the litter and used the scratchers and took a few hours of a nap before we tried anything.
Intros: Ghost settled quickly yesterday. All the cats sniffed under the door with no growling or hissing. We also brought out Ghost's box and there was no Hissing on smell. We allowed some distanced sight with a gate and there was some hissing. Magnus also hissed at Calcifer and Cal hissed back so we ended that promptly. We got Magnus and Cal settled and they played last night and this AM and ate together.
Cal did distanced sight visit on his own (we just open the door with the gate and let our cats approach without bribe). Magnus decided to opt out. Some mild hissing. By bedtime everyone was overtired and Ghost got hungry and cried. Cal started hissing at the door so we put two pillows in front to give him a better visual of being blocked off. That solved the issue. (Overtired cats are hissy
)
This morning we did sight again. Magnus opted out. Ghost and Cal sniffed through the gate. Cal hissed when the sniff got too intense so I tossed a kibble and he backed off. Both Cal and Ghost have taken turns rubbing their whole bodies against the gate.
Every time we are keeping them busy with toys and getting them to back away from the gate with kibble toss or toy toss. Calcifer goes to the human bathroom or down the stairs to calm down at points and Ghost retreats in to the room further to decompress. I love this for them and it's the perfect behaviour so always rewarded.
Everyone is getting back to baseline after interactions. Magnus and Cal are wrestling and grooming one another still. Calcifer has also left introductions a few times because birds.
Feliway and cat purrs music are running 24/7 here.
He was neutered about 2.5 weeks ago, and has been quarentined since then. He had FIV/FELV testing at the beginning of May which was negative. He's very social but also just odd with what he doesn't seem to know about.
Resident cats:
Magnus: 3yrs old, we've had him since he was 5 months. Nervous but bounces back quickly.
Calcifer: almost 2 years old. Mojo king-of-the-house cat.
We would not have started intros right away but he was already quarentined and he settled very well. He ate, drank water, used the litter and used the scratchers and took a few hours of a nap before we tried anything.
Intros: Ghost settled quickly yesterday. All the cats sniffed under the door with no growling or hissing. We also brought out Ghost's box and there was no Hissing on smell. We allowed some distanced sight with a gate and there was some hissing. Magnus also hissed at Calcifer and Cal hissed back so we ended that promptly. We got Magnus and Cal settled and they played last night and this AM and ate together.
Cal did distanced sight visit on his own (we just open the door with the gate and let our cats approach without bribe). Magnus decided to opt out. Some mild hissing. By bedtime everyone was overtired and Ghost got hungry and cried. Cal started hissing at the door so we put two pillows in front to give him a better visual of being blocked off. That solved the issue. (Overtired cats are hissy
)This morning we did sight again. Magnus opted out. Ghost and Cal sniffed through the gate. Cal hissed when the sniff got too intense so I tossed a kibble and he backed off. Both Cal and Ghost have taken turns rubbing their whole bodies against the gate.
Every time we are keeping them busy with toys and getting them to back away from the gate with kibble toss or toy toss. Calcifer goes to the human bathroom or down the stairs to calm down at points and Ghost retreats in to the room further to decompress. I love this for them and it's the perfect behaviour so always rewarded.
Everyone is getting back to baseline after interactions. Magnus and Cal are wrestling and grooming one another still. Calcifer has also left introductions a few times because birds.
Feliway and cat purrs music are running 24/7 here.
And good luck with the intros. 
Magnus becomes more interested soon.
When you have a 15 lb cat climb two gates, pop out cardboard and sail over your head to go to the litter box in the new cat's room, I think I'm outnumbered. Two weeks is usually a minimum, so I don't like them to be on the same side of the gate for the first week. Calcifer didn't scale the gate when he was a kitten. 
