Hello Everyone,
I currently have one 5 month old cat. I have adopted a rescue cat, and she gets here in just a few weeks! She is coming to us already spayed, and my cat is due for his operation next week.
I have a spacious apartment, with plenty of room for them both to play - however, I only has one bedroom. The rest of the apartment is a pretty open space. I was planning on making her safe room our bedroom (we won't use the bathroom, as that is our current cats "safe area" with his litter, and scratching post. I'd rather not disrupt too much of his routine since we'll be adding his new sister to the mix
While browsing petfinder.com - I saw a method for introductions that didn't involve a safe room - rather a large kennel (about the size used for a medium to large sized dog), which would be "out in the open" and in my case, the living room.
There was barely any information given on this method other than to back the crate up against a wall, and cover the crate with a blanket, exposing only the front of the cage - then, you would gradually remove the blanket more and more everyday. Of course, food, litter, toys, etc would be in the crate along with the new cat.
I've searched many cat related forums to find out more about this method -but haven't been able to find anything.
I don't know if I'll be using this as my method - as leaving an animal in a cage that long when they have no medical necessity doesn't seem entirely fair to me - BUT - it could certainly help make things a bit easier, so we don't have our new cat waking us up at 4am wanting to play, as so many of them tend to do at those ungodly hours!
I would love to hear your comments/thoughts/ or experiences with this. Or, perhaps a link so I can learn more about it? Does this seem like a good way to ease along the introduction? Or, a disaster in the making?
Thanks Everyone!
I currently have one 5 month old cat. I have adopted a rescue cat, and she gets here in just a few weeks! She is coming to us already spayed, and my cat is due for his operation next week.
I have a spacious apartment, with plenty of room for them both to play - however, I only has one bedroom. The rest of the apartment is a pretty open space. I was planning on making her safe room our bedroom (we won't use the bathroom, as that is our current cats "safe area" with his litter, and scratching post. I'd rather not disrupt too much of his routine since we'll be adding his new sister to the mix
While browsing petfinder.com - I saw a method for introductions that didn't involve a safe room - rather a large kennel (about the size used for a medium to large sized dog), which would be "out in the open" and in my case, the living room.
There was barely any information given on this method other than to back the crate up against a wall, and cover the crate with a blanket, exposing only the front of the cage - then, you would gradually remove the blanket more and more everyday. Of course, food, litter, toys, etc would be in the crate along with the new cat.
I've searched many cat related forums to find out more about this method -but haven't been able to find anything.
I don't know if I'll be using this as my method - as leaving an animal in a cage that long when they have no medical necessity doesn't seem entirely fair to me - BUT - it could certainly help make things a bit easier, so we don't have our new cat waking us up at 4am wanting to play, as so many of them tend to do at those ungodly hours!
I would love to hear your comments/thoughts/ or experiences with this. Or, perhaps a link so I can learn more about it? Does this seem like a good way to ease along the introduction? Or, a disaster in the making?
Thanks Everyone!
so it could be quite useless on older kittens & adults.
