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Hello everyone!
My boyfriend and I recently got a new cat (Dr. Goblin, M.D. 3y6m old) and have been introducing her to my cat, the resident cat (Amaretto 2y7m). We live in a small one bedroom apartment, so we did our best to give them their own space so far, but for a bit there didn’t seem to be any hissing or other issues through the door to our bedroom so we let them meet. However, now Dr. Goblin follows Amaretto around intensely whenever she can (we have been keeping them separate with Amaretto in the bedroom bc it’s where she is comfortable), even going as far as completely chasing her, which has happened 4 times since we got her 3 days ago and it scares Amaretto badly every time. We are trying our best to keep them separated and have limited monitored time of them interacting, which like 70% of is just them silently staring at each other. Is this behavior normal? What should we do to help? And when do you think they will chill out so that we can just let them mingle? (my boyfriend has been sleeping on the couch to keep his cat company so we are sad about sleeping in separate places )
My boyfriend and I recently got a new cat (Dr. Goblin, M.D. 3y6m old) and have been introducing her to my cat, the resident cat (Amaretto 2y7m). We live in a small one bedroom apartment, so we did our best to give them their own space so far, but for a bit there didn’t seem to be any hissing or other issues through the door to our bedroom so we let them meet. However, now Dr. Goblin follows Amaretto around intensely whenever she can (we have been keeping them separate with Amaretto in the bedroom bc it’s where she is comfortable), even going as far as completely chasing her, which has happened 4 times since we got her 3 days ago and it scares Amaretto badly every time. We are trying our best to keep them separated and have limited monitored time of them interacting, which like 70% of is just them silently staring at each other. Is this behavior normal? What should we do to help? And when do you think they will chill out so that we can just let them mingle? (my boyfriend has been sleeping on the couch to keep his cat company so we are sad about sleeping in separate places )