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Hi! So we recently brought home a new addition to our family. A tiny calico 8 week old kitten. We have a resident cat who is 3 yrs old and has been an only cat her whole life.
We started with the kitten in a safe room, but with a recent heat wave/regular behavior for our resident cat (she doesn’t like overly soft things/beds/blankets/towels/the couch) and will only eat food at her designated dish placement, we couldn’t do the switch blankets or food on either side of a door.
After a little over a week we started to allow the kitten out to roam with supervision and now allow her out all the time.
Our resident cat is still posturing and hissing. She doesn’t want the kitten near her. They have relaxed in the same room as long as the kitten isn’t engaging her. She isn’t hiding constantly but she is spending a lot more time in the basement where the kitten doesn’t often venture yet.
As long as our resident cat isn’t avoiding eating or changing it’s bathroom habits should we be concerned? It was honestly just too hot overall to keep either cat in one room for any longer but I’m worried that at a week and a half in the home total the posturing/hiding from the resident cat is still happening. Am I just impatient? Is this normal?
We started with the kitten in a safe room, but with a recent heat wave/regular behavior for our resident cat (she doesn’t like overly soft things/beds/blankets/towels/the couch) and will only eat food at her designated dish placement, we couldn’t do the switch blankets or food on either side of a door.
After a little over a week we started to allow the kitten out to roam with supervision and now allow her out all the time.
Our resident cat is still posturing and hissing. She doesn’t want the kitten near her. They have relaxed in the same room as long as the kitten isn’t engaging her. She isn’t hiding constantly but she is spending a lot more time in the basement where the kitten doesn’t often venture yet.
As long as our resident cat isn’t avoiding eating or changing it’s bathroom habits should we be concerned? It was honestly just too hot overall to keep either cat in one room for any longer but I’m worried that at a week and a half in the home total the posturing/hiding from the resident cat is still happening. Am I just impatient? Is this normal?