I apologize as I’m sure this has been asked a million times, but I could use some advice and/or reassurance.
One week ago we adopted a 14 week old kitten, Luna. At home we have 2 resident cats - Tommen (7) and Maggie (4). We’ve spent the last week doing slow introductions as recommended. Things were largely going fine aside from the odd hiss and growl from Maggie, so we started supervised visits.
Tommen has pretty much taken to Luna already. He’s not hissing and they’ve bumped noses and briefly played. Maggie, not so much. At first she was just very cautious and avoided/watched Luna, only hissing/growling if she came too close. Then she starting swatting with the hissing/growling. Now she will seek her out and chase her, hiss/swat, and walk away. I don’t know if she’s doing this intentionally but Maggie will occasionally also sit in the hallway and then growl and hiss at Luna if she tries to get past. A few times she has even hissed at Tommen for no discernible reason (she’s never done this before).
They have all napped in the same room, ate within a foot or two of each other, and played near each other all without incident. Maggie is able to be distracted when she’s “stalking” Luna and doesn’t do it all the time. I guess I’m just really confused and not sure if this is all a normal part of the process, or if we should re-introduce or what. I’m mainly worried the chasing will escalate into full on fights. Thank you in advance for reading all this!
One week ago we adopted a 14 week old kitten, Luna. At home we have 2 resident cats - Tommen (7) and Maggie (4). We’ve spent the last week doing slow introductions as recommended. Things were largely going fine aside from the odd hiss and growl from Maggie, so we started supervised visits.
Tommen has pretty much taken to Luna already. He’s not hissing and they’ve bumped noses and briefly played. Maggie, not so much. At first she was just very cautious and avoided/watched Luna, only hissing/growling if she came too close. Then she starting swatting with the hissing/growling. Now she will seek her out and chase her, hiss/swat, and walk away. I don’t know if she’s doing this intentionally but Maggie will occasionally also sit in the hallway and then growl and hiss at Luna if she tries to get past. A few times she has even hissed at Tommen for no discernible reason (she’s never done this before).
They have all napped in the same room, ate within a foot or two of each other, and played near each other all without incident. Maggie is able to be distracted when she’s “stalking” Luna and doesn’t do it all the time. I guess I’m just really confused and not sure if this is all a normal part of the process, or if we should re-introduce or what. I’m mainly worried the chasing will escalate into full on fights. Thank you in advance for reading all this!