How to Introduce 2 Cats in 5 Proven Steps
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0:00 Forest Meowing!
0:18 Introduction
1:29 Step 1: Preparation
4:06 tuft + paw Sponsor Shoutout
4:39 Step 2: Homecoming
6:18 Step 3: Scent Introductions
7:31 Step 4: Dinner Dates
8:58 Step 5: Making Eye Contact
11:03 Additional Tips to Help Cats Get Along
13:03 Conclusion
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I didn’t know this before I adopted my second cat and now they’ve been fighting for 3 years 😞 😔 😢
Now what can I do???
@@vienicestyles6122 reintroduce and follow all these steps!! It’s never too late! Cats generally WANT to get along with their roommates:) but they have a lot of animal behaviors and sometimes just need another chance. Best of luck pal!
@@localchumb thank you 😊 ☺️ I will try it. I’m a gal 😊 👩🏽 ☮️ 🌻
EVEN WITH THE PROPER INTRODUCTIONS SOME CATS MAY NEVER GET ALONG. SEEMS LIKE YOU FORGOT TO MENTION THAT...
Thanks for the advice and video 👍❤❤❤
It’s like introducing the Montagues and Capulets to each other
Cat-pulets
So a small informal gathering with light beverages, maybe a meat and cheese tray or fruit and veggie tray is out?
Funny.
Fish sticks.
@@jennifer9047 BRILLIANT!
I’ll be there
I think they'd welcome the meat, maybe even the cheese, and some good water, catnip tea, low lactose milk, and low sodium broth for drinks.
Gosh If I’ve new how hard was going to introduce a cat to another I would have listened to the lady at the shelter when she told us to adopt 2 kittens
Should have listened to her in the first place 😬
Its not this hard. I have had cats for over 30 years. Take them with me to friends houses with other animals. As long as your cat trusts you then its easy. If the cat dont trust you 100% then its hard to meet other animals for a cat.
@@fabilichusaquaman4263not true
Yes!! Now I know better.
I adopted two kittens together and now at one years old they don't get along anymore and i do not know what to do anymore🫠
Last year I adopted a 7 yr old male who is truly the Ghandi of cats. An 8 week old female kitten decided to adopt us by showing up in our yard until the neighbor said we should keep her. My big boy welcomed her with open paws. He grooms her, protects her, plays gently with her. I’m so proud of him.
That Gandhi reference was awesome. Gandhi did indeed groom many young children :)
@@Fastskull that sounds really sick, sicko. This is about a cat.
do they use the same litter box? I have only space for one box in my house
@@hipmoma I have two litter boxes and both use both boxes
@@Fastskull😂
We adopted a 3-yr old male just yesterday and brought him home to our 2-year old brother/sister bonded pair. Of course, we had no clue how to facilitate the introductions but we were so lucky that our new boy is just so mellow and well-mannered. He immediately knew that he was the new cat in town and he set course to be respectful and non-threatening. Just over 36 hours later, our 3 babies are living in peace. Sometimes, you get lucky but also just use common sense to have a successful introduction: expect hissing and growling; have a place where the new arrival can be safe, give your current babies lots of love, watch everyone carefully (adopting during the holiday weekend worked to our advantage), definitely have separate feeding and litter box areas. And calm down the energy in the house; if the humans are keyed up, the cats will be, too.
lol perfect example of when the cat is ready to leave, your actor is clearly ready to get out of the bathroom and back to the rest of the house
I put a small towel, that smelled like my kitten, down where our other two ate. I put their plates on top of the towel so they would associate the kitten smell with good things. My kitten was ready after 3 days and they all get along great! Im watching again as we are adopting my kittens younger brother. Exactly one year younger! Im allergic to cats so I treated myself to a Siberian. I live high in the Rockies so it's a good choice for the nasty weather we can get. I made him a great cat.
That’s a great suggestion. My resident cat is not food motivated and not interested AT ALL in eating outside the door of the new kitten’s sanctuary. No food/ treat will convince him otherwise. I will try the towel tip asap 😊
Great tip! Thanks for sharing!
Let me know if all it did was make your resident cat want to eat the kitten. Lol@@katherinestojanovski6734
My boyfriend and I are about to move in together and introduce our cats to each other. I found this very helpful! Thank you so much! fingers crossed!🤣
Update?
Update please?
update?
Update pleaasseeee
Didn't work for my girlfriend and I at all.
Thank you for sharing this post! The methods mentioned do take time and patience, but worked for us. I don't think you can rush the process and expect positive results. Backing up the steps may also be necessary and is ok. We took on my sister in law's deaf, 12 year old cat. We introduced him to our 6 year old male (who 6 months before lost his best cat buddy) very slowly. We followed the steps as described and supervised. It took some time, but both cats eventually accepted the situation, one another and learned to coexist, even sleeping together. There were points along the way when I did not think we were going to be successful, but our vet said "time is simply your friend" and we found this to be true. Please don't give up trying. We all need a place we can call home. Best cat wishes!
How long did it take you Paige? I’m struggling at the moment, it’s been 3 weeks. Am I being inpatient? 🫣
Everyone says it 'takes time' but nobody ever gives you a time reference. Paige, how long did it take for your cat family to settle down?
I'm also curious about the timeline? With all of this I'm starting to think 2 cats aren't meant to be in the same apartment :/ if in the end the scenario to be looking for is them to tolerate each other :/ I want to get another cat so my resident cat wont be so lonely....on the other hand, maybe shes better off alone?..
I think from start to finish it was about 3 months.
I needed to read this comment. Time is definitely your friend
My new kitten immediately wanted to go explore the rest of the house. We actually had to change the sanctuary room we originally decided on because he wanted to be with someone
I foster cats and always stress a slow introduction whenever one of my fosters goes to a family with a resident cat. A lot of time things don't go as planned - the new cat snuck out of quarantine and the two cats saw each other. I suggested walking back to the previous step and a lot of people just decided to forego the rest of the process and wing it. They ended up making the integration a lot more difficult than it has to be.
Mine had gotten along for years, then the younger one went crazy. My guess is it was the older ones are food obsessed and he’s a nibbler so they ate his food. Feeding them separately helped but he still went crazy and when he flips he gets on a shelf or under the bed and lung fu noises all of us if we go in the room. The cat he fights with will mostly ignore him but if he starts something that can’t isn’t having it so I get a ball of screaming merged tabby that I can’t separate. As a result, I’m down to time sharing the house. One cat is a lover, not a fighter, so he is the one allowed out all the time. I don’t know what else to do. Funny thing is if I feed them close to the door, the food obsessed cat will grab the other cats food from under the door and either pull it under or flip it over. So here we are in timeshare, feliway cat purgatory.
@@bmiles4131if they’ve gotten along for years prior and then all of a sudden one of them has an issue with the other cat. It could indicate a health complication and you should talk to your vet to make sure.
Very helpful! Thanks for sharing this.
omigosh Forest being chatty in the beginning was so cute, thanks for including that! And ofc demonstrating all the steps thoroughly :)
Great tips!
Thanks love you’re videos 🌷
Thank you so much for this excellent video! This information is wonderfully helpful. It's exactly what I needed to know. I'm so happy I've found your channel 😊
These are some great tips! I have a friend moving in with me soon and she will bring her cat so it helps to have a process so both cats feel safe while adapting to each other.
We recently adopted two kittens after losing our dog to cancer. We have a senior male 12 who is very sweet, affectionate and mellow. He has always been apart of a multi-pet household and since our dog passed showed signs of being lonely. Hence the two kittens. We are slowly introducing them and he took to our dog right away when we brought him home. First visual with one the kittens he was hissing a bit, so we are slowing down introduction again. thank you for the tips!
Yes a slow transition is key. I didn’t know that when I brought my new kitty home but they are both pretty good now together♥️💜
Hello kubi
How long has it taken for them to meet? I'm introducing a small cat to my old cat but its the new cat that's making this scary sound.
WOW PERFECT TIMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GREAT VIDEO!
Absolutely loved your program!! Thank you!!
Well thought out and presented.
Just adopted an abandoned young orange Tom I found wandering the streets starving.
Wish I'd seen this before but they are getting on pretty well after 2 weeks and generally seem at ease with each other and I actually think that the new cat looks out for my older Tuxedo ❤
You're love for cats exudes 💕🌹
Great Video, lots of Information, Thanks for Sharing.
♥️💚🖤🐈
This was the best advice….. especially the feeding in front of each other introduction….worked for mine!!
Thank you ☺️
I've gotten a new cat/kitten recently, and she's got a tiny little voice and only ever meows when I'm about to feed her. The vocal one you had at the beginning, reminded me of my last cat who would "talk" to me for ages☺️
Hello Loretta how are you doing today How's everything?
thanks very useful
Kudus to all the effort you are putting into making our cats' lives easier..love from lebanon
This advice was so encouraging to me for my indoor cats. I will attempt this over the winter....for my sake and theirs. I will get the Feliway also. Ahna
7:48 awww Forest 🌳 is so cute
I would highly recommend Feliway cat spray also, this stuff is absolute magic for keeping cats calm and happy ☺️
Very helpful. We're at day five and we did our intro a little different. Our 1st cat saw the new kitten on day one and has seen her every day since. We keep the kitten upstairs and she has her own room with food, toys and litter. We have a pet gate at the top of the stairs to keep them separated by still able to see each other and get used to each other. We'll give treats and play with both of them around the gate and we just introduced feeding them around the gate at their dinner and breakfast today. It went pretty good. The older one was a little on edge but she did eat about half her food, so we moved her dish back to her regular spot so she could finish. So far things seem to be progressing nicely. Hoping to be able to get the gate removed for good within a week. Fingers crossed🤞
How did it go in the end?
Heck yea!!!! Great to see ya again :)
You too, Chum! Feels like it's been a long time. :)
I had 2 cats - brother and sister (Tobi and Patchi) we lost Tobi them in August last year.
Decided to rescue a younger cat, and we picked up Percy a week ago. Patchi is 4.5, and Percy 4 months.
We set up a base room for Percy, and I’ve been sleeping in there with him, thought it would be a good way to get his scent on me.
1 day my partner kept Patchi in the main bedroom, to allow Percy to move around the house, before returning him to his base area.
Next day, Patchi was out for her usual exploring and we allowed Percy to go into the bedroom and he had a wonder around.
They did bump into each other though when returning Percy back to ‘his’ room - & Patchi did hiss at him.
I’m worried I’ve unintentionally messed things up & won’t be able to salvage things
This video is really good as you are using actual example of cats and practical advice! We have a kitten and 2 resident cats who we adore.
They are currently at the stage of them eating either side of the door.
Thanks for the video. I have 1 cat Sami who I trapped last year and now have 2 more I trapped in May and will need to slowly do intros. The new cats have their own rooms right now and get spayed & neutered next week.
I am excited to start once they are healed and hormone free.
Great tips on introducing 2 cats🐈
Hello sherry how are you doing today How's everything going?
Awesome🎉thankyou
I'm having a new female cat over tonight and want to introduce her to my resident cat (a male) , I found this information very helpful! Thanks! Will update you in this~
It is a big deal.Thanks for the great vidio.Its respectful to everyone .Very helpful.
Thanks
It's such an interesting process, I've sorta done well with keeping them distant. The new cat is way to sweet and thinks everyone is her friend. Mine is really serious, going to take time but luckily they have their own space
Thanks for the video. All your videos are helpful.
Would you review cat collars, regular collars, breakaway, breakaway with elastic. I read mixed reviews on breakaway collars.
Thanks😊
Thanks!
Thank you!! ♥️
Thank you so much i just had my first cat and the resident already here feels treatened. Lots of good tips that reassured me on the situation great video :)
Thanks ...dear
The earrings, the watch....ohmygod you are so cool!
I’m planning on adopting a stray kitten that’s been basically glued to my side. I’m planning to quarantine him from my resident cat while we get his vaccines and other vet stuff. Hopefully they get along, my resident cat was an orphan and had to be bottle fed.
Informative. But I really can't ignore the fact that she is absolutely beautiful ❤
Love hearing you mention Jackson galaxy as a source for you. I was never sure if his practices were good or bad but hearing you mention him makes me feel better about continuing to watch him lol
Omg samee!😂
Relevant to my life right now. I'm moving on Friday and I've been plotting how to introduce my boy to my partner's. Glad to see I'm doing it right according to the experts.
Thank you poster, I feel more confident bringing together my 2 year old. To my 17 year old fully friends.
How are they getting on? I’m introducing a 1.5 year old to a resident 12 year old, both males
love your paid actors!!! lol
non-paid 😆
Wessie, Forest, its time for role-playing kitties!
Whoa! Just a coincidence! I just adopted a kitten this weekend and I'm starting the introduction process now
I adopted a 1 year old male cat last October and my 6 year old resident cat doesn't like him. I've tried everything from rubbing their chins and faces with towels and swapping it to their respective rooms, to having 2 baby gates stacked on top of each other so the 1 year old doesn't jump over. I've tried the nice smelling scented collars and sprays and nothing has worked over the last 11 months. I literally am at a loss right now.
I'm in the same situation 😵💫😵💫😵💫
Thank you so much for this video, its the clearer, best video I've found on this topic thus far. I tried to introduce them the fist time ERRONEOUSLY by literally putting them in the same room (because I was ignorant) and although nobody got hurt, it was TERRIFYING.
I'll start following this tutorial slowly and update once I get some results 🐈🥰🐱
Also, my male cat is not neutered yet, but my female has already gone through that process. I'll have him undergo the surgery first before beginning this tutorial for better results and consistency.
Any update on your babies?!
My wife and I are introducing a new cat to the house and we actually found for our two girlies the food behind the door was a better first step. Our resident cat Noodle is not comfy going into our new cat Beep’s sanctuary. So instead of pushing her into stress, we found starting with smell intro via food first has helped. After a few days of this we tried a scent swap again and Noodle made it fully into Beep’s space for the first time! 🥳 MANY HISSING but still progress.
Also Beep has lived with cats before and genuinely doesn’t seem bothered by Noodle. They haven’t had a visual intro yet so we’ll see if that lasts. 😂
I love this chick and her channel
Hi Mallory, thank you for all the videos and information you share with us! I recently brought home an eight-month-old kitten. We created a base camp for her, and she settled in pretty quickly, with-in a day or two, she was playing and exploring all parts of the space. I have a three-year-old resident cat we adopted a year ago, and since our kitten's arrival, she has been very curious. We swapped rooms with both cats to get each other's scent. I was trying to follow the steps. However, I went a bit too quick and allowed them to be in the same space together, and my resident cat became defensive and hissed at the kitten. Is it ok to go back to the scent swapping and continue working the steps because just the sight and hissing was a terrible experience for us.
Thank you for the detailed guide. It's likely we will be getting a companion for our timid 6 year old girl soon and want very much to have both cats become friends.
im at day 5 with my scaredy-cat of 6yo and a kitten. im very curious how your story goes! :D here we are happy but I am getting tired of the amount of work!
@@TruPunx89 Sorry, my wife has not chosen a cat yet.
I wish you and your cats well. From what I've read it just takes time and if they don't make friends you may start all over again and make it work.
Heyy @@Geoduck. it goed very well! Last night was our first night with all the doors open and they slept with me amd in the morning we went to the livingroom together haha! One day they will rely less on me i hope!
Food luck with your journey with cats! You can always help your wife choose one ;)
Booooom! Liked and shared!
Thank you, Mark. Much appreciated.
we recently found a blind, emaciated kitten. I currently own 3 cats, two of which took to the kitten right away. surprisingly, my third cat, who is the sweetest of the three, does not like the kitten at all. we're taking it slow. 😊
So glad that you are providing a home for the stray kitten. I hope it all goes well.
we have 6 cats. One of the cats we adopted after we moved to Texas 3 years ago. One of the cats, Pearl decided she hated Luke and now they hate each other. I think I need to reintroduce and hope for it to be better. We also recently had a foster fail. 2 bengals. They now live with us and the little girl gives Pearl grief all the time. I'm hoping if I follow your directions of reintroduction, it will be better. I've had cats all my life and have never had so many dominating, territorial cats at once. It's been a bit tough. Right now 2 of our older girls stay in our master bedroom and walk in closet. We have to keep the door locked because Clue, our female bengal has learned to open all the doors. It's a bit exhausting but we love them all so much. Thanks so much for your tips.
Bengal cats tend to be dominant and territorial.
I would reach out to Jackson Galaxy on his channel
I just adopted 2 male kittens (Siamese) and I have a 4 year old adult female Siamese. I did the scent swap with tea towels and it seemed to work really well. they are not best buds yet, but they have been sharing the house for a few days with no real issues. I also got collars for all of them with little bells. That seems to have been a good move. They can hear each other coming and are not shocked if they come upon each other.
I "might" (very good chance) be getting a rehomed male Ragdoll cat this Friday ( Dec. 15, 2023) already have a Siamese also rehomed last Jan. I'm going to try this method, just hope they get along sooner rather than later so the isolation won't last too long. When I got the Siamese boy last Jan. he wasn't strange at all, slept on my bed the first night and bonded with me very quickly so I hope he adapts well 🤞🤞I like the idea of the bells, will definitely try it! Good luck with your babies!
@@kanases yesterday was great. I came in to find one of the babies curled up with the adult kitty on top of the cat tree and the other on the level just below. She still gets a little irritated with them (I guess because they have so much energy) but they are slowly acclimating to each other. Hope you have success!
Hice todo este proceso con el segundo gato que tuve cuando lo traje a casa. Con los siguientes no hice nada de esto, a los bebes los dejaba la primera noche en el baño y los sacaba al día siguiente para que se muevan por la casa y jueguen, ninguno quería volver al baño y lloraban por salir. Los gatos adultos no les gustaba nada lo de estar encerrados y querían estar en contacto con la gente. De todas formas a los gatos les lleva entre 2 semanas y 1 mes y medio acostumbrarse a un nuevo gato (dependiendo del gato) y tuve una gata que nunca aceptó las nuevas incorporaciones. Mi consejo: que un gato acepte a otro depende del carácter del gato, mucha tranquilidad durante la adaptación, atención y mucho amor.
Hello great tips, but what is the routine for 2 new cats to the home? all videos I find are when 1 is living at the home already..doesn't help me. Thanks,
I need this haha i have two cats
6 weeks into adopting a 4 year old rescue and introducing him to our 10 year old rescue girl. She still hisses and we're still at the door stage, having moments where we are like 'when will it get better?' but we know even if it takes another 4-6 weeks, we'll get there
It can take anywhere from 8 to 10 months for cats to get used to each other!! Don’t lose hope
Update?
@@ProdChikara Everything's great! After 8-10 weeks we began allowing them to be together in the home, despite the hisses we let them co-exist but still kept them at a distance. After 3 months we noticed things were improving, and they could eat near each other. It's just been 4 months, and they're starting to sniff each other's noses, and our 10-year old cat will lie on her back and entice him to play but he's still unsure. They share treats, and will lie kinda near each other... but every week that passes we notice a difference! We used to wish for them to be best friends and realised that's probably too ambitious, but they don't fight, and can live happily alongside each other. Thank you Chikara!
Thank you for sharing! It can feel discouraging when weeks go by and it seems like there’s no improvement
@@beckywiththefrizzyhairI'm 3 days in and I'm already discouraged lol
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What deworm do you recommend?
Thank you thank you, Mallory! I messed up the intro of our new cat to our resident cat. Messed it UP. So, back to square one. BTW, I'm not here to diss Jackson, and I respect him, but he has several videos on intros, and I missed the one with text on the screen that said "site swap". I heard sight swap! Oh no! Ohhhh yes I did. *sad* His other videos don't have that text on the screen, and I was extremely confused as to why he would say to site (thought sight) swap, but also say "Don't let them see each other!".
What a disaster.
This relationship building is going to take months after that goof.
Do you have any advice for introducing cats that don’t/won’t live together?
I’m hoping my cat and my friends cats will be able to be friends but I haven’t seen any advice specifically for introducing cats that don’t live in the same house. Thanks !!
I see, I need to buy a separate houses for my cats, gonna take some time
Thank you
Just subscribed for your very cute teeth 🥰🙂
So i have a Bengal female thats 10mounth she got castrated and is healing well 13 days done so 1 more to go to be fully healed.
New cat is a ragdoll Kitty, also female. The seller insisted that i should not have closed doors and should just have like bars. So i followed her advice even tho i preferred to take it slow. Bengal got curious and approached the gate meowing, the ragdoll was actually hiding but got curious and csme straight to the gate and they locked eyes. Bengal got crazy while the ragdoll was really mellow and showed zero aggression.
I have the ragdoll in my room and let the bengal roam freely in the remaining parts of the house. Ragdoll got rly comfy fast and sat in my lap and purred and bonded really fast on arriving day. So i slowly opened the door and have a gate, just to cehck what the bengal is doing. She was laying down on the couch, much calmer, no hissing or growling. Ragdoll approach gate and layed down and purred, they had eye contact. But i did notice that the bengal was shaking at times. Sry for my bad english and text wall, just not sure where to go from here, just start from scratch?
Can you correct/start over with these new steps if you already been trying without knowing any steps meaning they already been hissing at each other and staring and all in wrong order so is there a restart or is it too late
What if when you are ready to do supervised time and one cat continuously bolts toward the other cat in a very scary, territorial way? Could you use a harness?
hi a month ago my wife and i got a 3 month old female kitten, for our 2 year old female to have a companion ,last spring we had to put our older male cat down to heath problems.we thought it would be good for our resident cat she got along great with the older cat.This new kitten is so sweet but,willow has attacked her multiple times ive done all the steps getting very frustrated we have grown very fond of the new cat and i dont want to have to find another home for her , any advice would be great ive commented on other Yt videos but no feedback thanks Mark 😀 just subbed and liked ✌
The company she’s sponsoring prices are rediculous 400 for a cat tower lol
Would this work for cats who just visit? A friend and I each have a cat and want to be able to take them to our respective homes where they would be together when we each go on vacation, I guess the question is will they remember each other if we get them properly introduced?
I just got a 10 month for my 1 yr old to play with and this was very informative. You are smart and beautiful. Thanks.
That chatter at the beginning 😂. So weird, but cute.
That's Forest for you!
Which is best litter for kitten 🐾
Where’d you get your cat pillow in the background? 😍 it looks like my precious cat!
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I'm about to try this with my female cat by moving in with the Mrs who also has a female cat. Both adults.
Would there be a problem with being both female adult cats
Great video by the way truly amazing information
When I was 11 years old. My family adopted our 2nd cat in mid November 1981 from being a very sweet and friendly stray. Our 1st cat did accepted our 2nd cat instantly. They did wrestled just after their first meeting. They became friends to each other. We also adopted another stray cat in the early 90’s. Both cats got used to our 3rd cat during the summer. He was adopted in mid November 1993. All 3 got along no problem. We had 3 cats till March 1994. Back to 2. With my sister that we gotten 2 kittens from 2 different pet shops. One was a tuxedo Manx kitten and the other one was a cute red tabby kitten. Kittens do get along when they grow up close to each other. Both of the kittens did slept next each other or on top. My parents old red tabby cat was so laid back on my sister’s and my red tabby kitten. The old cat let the young kitten to sleep next to him. My sister’s has 2 cats that really got along really quickly about 5 days. They both became besties over 3 years now. Even my sister also have a cute small dog with those 2 cats.
Hi I'm just wondering if you have any extra recommendations for the case of the "new arrival" actually being two cats who already are familiar with each other, instead of just one new feline face for the resident cat to meet.
We're already in the first phase where my two boys are comfortable and happy in their sanctuary room, but I'm apprehensive about when we get to the supervised play dates in a couple weeks.
Any tips or advice is appreciated! Thanks for making this kind of content ☺️
Hi!! We are about to go through that situation! How's things there after a month has passed? Thanks for sharing ❤
This sounds so simple in theory, but my car went into his sanctuary room (my new bedroom) and within a couple hours was trying to escape to go check out the house. And in all the trying to escape, which he has done several times now by jumping over a 5ft board and pushing the door open, he has gotten eye contact with the resident cat.
He gets super stressed out being stuck in a room or even part of the house all day. I even tried the site swapping and both cats were more stressed.
Hmmm, any chance you can let the cats spend time in the same room as one another, but supervised? You don't want to control the situation at the cost of over-stressing either cat.
Hi , this is an informative video. But i need some help from you. So there was a feamle cat in my house and i adopted a male cat later. First two days they did a bit hissing but later they became friends without doing anything. But suddenly, the male one started beating the female one and she got some injury too. They did so at least 7+ times. I neutured the male one and now the female one fears the male one and do the hissing and the male one still whenever sees the female one alone, he do attack her. How can i make them friends? I tried the towel touching between them, but no luck.
So my situation is this:
I have a 5 year old female Mozie and I just got a new kitten he's about 11-12 weeks now and I've had him for about 2 weeks. I have done all the steps, seperate room, feeding on either side. (the feeding part isn't consistent as my cat isn't a big eater so I put her dry food there right by the door and she grazes when she's hungry (not sure if that's good enough maybe every other day she eats when he eats behind the door). So now it's been almost 2 weeks she has shown "interest" and sits by the door and paws under the door. My kitten is Mr. confidence so I don't see any issues with him, it's her she's super skiddish in general so I guess that doesn't help. Although we did have our boy Smokey and got her as a friend.. there introduction was ok and she really warmed up to him (he unfortunately passed away and she became depressed) so I feel a little discouraged now. but I'm at the point now where we put a screen door up. And she peaks around the corner at him and is very weary of him and does this pounce and scream/meow at the screen. This is the first full day of screen so hoping all goes well.. Any tips to help a scardy cat bond with a confident kitty? She does do better with cats so I know that's not the issue.. Maybe because she's more frightened she will just need more screen time to warm up? Ugh I feel so sad and want them to be besties
When the cat is get along with each other can i put their litter box in a same room?
can one litter box be used for 2 cats? I have a small apt and no space for a second litter box
Thanks.
Introducing cats is like the borg .... older cat: i am alpha cat you will bow down to me and be assimilated. RESISTANCE is futile ... followed by head bops 😂
A female cat was left on my street last year just before the cold weather so I too took her in. I didn't know she was pregnant, she had 6 kittens, one died and I gave two away 2. So now I have four cats, mother ,two males and one female. They are all now fixed and get along great. Now one person whom I gave a cat gave me back the cat about a year later, how do I reintroduce the cat back to the four I have without having a cat war.
I got lucky but I have also got unlucky interducing two cats together. Im doing it again tomorrow so Im gulping in on tips. Its a little dificult cause I dont live alone now and I have to work so im crossing my fingers
thanks for this great video :) I have some questions and hope someone could help. I got a new cat (3y, female) from a freind who can't longer take care of her and my old cat (15y, male) can be a little mean sometimes and i was afraid he would tear her apart lol. But suprisingly, he ignored her at the beginning and reacted amazing to her scent (rubbed against her furr and purred) and after a few days they seemed to be ready to see each other. That went pretty well too, they were pretty calm in the room together, fell asleep and they ate in the same room immediately. But i still followed those steps and didnt let them be alone unsupervised. Everytime they got too close, they would hiss, but both then just turned around and left, no agression. But yesterday my older cat suddenly wanted to slap her out of nowhere and she hissed and growled SO LOUD and he still wanted to slap her, but she hid behind a couch, which my older, fat cat cant fit in. Then my older cat left und i seperated them them for the rest of the day and today. So the thing is, why were they fine with each other at the beginning and now suddelny not anymore? I'm sure i rushed it way too much, its only been 2 weeks, but they really seemed to be ready for all those steps. How do i know if they actually are ready? And also i really can not distract them, if they are in a room, they will just focus on each other, not even treats can distract them and playing with them also doesnt work.
Hmmm...I think they're just feeling that territorial pressure now that they're in the same room. Do you think you can separate them in the same room so they can see one another from closer-up but not make physical contact?
@@AllAboutCatsYT thanks for the answer :) I could only put one of them in a carrier. But i heard that thats not a good solituon. And if i open the door just a tiny bit, the new cat hides at the end of the room, while the old cat tries to force his head through the door. They seem fine, as long as one cat is a little higher up than the other. But as soon as they are on the floor, my old one wants to get colser, and the new one runs away.
What if i started off completely wrong from the beginning? What can i do, cant do a sanctuary room, need help!
i clicked the video while cleaning my bed and i thought the intro was that one jason derulo song xD
Do you have a video for bringing a cat home when you DONT already have a cat? I did that. I closed the bathroom and extra bedroom door, but he still had the main bedroom and the living room/kitchen combo room. Our apartment is pretty small. I wish I hadn't tried so hard to feed wet food at the beginning because he barely ate for the first 3 days or so.
Hi! That's a good request. We do have an article on the subject here: cats.com/how-to-make-a-new-cat-feel-at-home