As of tonight, Daymon will have been home for a full week. His cold symptoms are gone, and I'd really like for the face-to-face meeting to happen soon, as I am off work between tomorrow and next Tuesday, and would like to have that time to supervise Holland and Daymon being together.
So far, Daymon has been in my bedroom full time. He desperately wants to get out of there, and I can already tell he's going to be a troublemaker (but that's another story). He doesn't seem to care that there's another cat in the apartment - he lived in a colony at the shelter. Holland, on the other hand, knows there is a cat in "her" bedroom, and she has slowly been adapting. For the first day, she wouldn't go near the bedroom door. She would hiss at me after I visited Daymon and had his scent on me. Over the past few days she's gotten comfortable with sitting outside the bedroom door (she doesn't puff up when she gets near it anymore). She doesn't seem too bothered (just a little annoyed) when I go in there and spend time with him. She hasn't hissed at me for days.
This morning, Holland did hiss when she saw Daymon putting his paws under the door. I have allowed them to see each other by holding the door ajar when they're on either side of it. Like I said, Daymon seems like he couldn't care less, Holland seems curiously cautious. I don't have a kennel, the only thing I have to contain one and not the other is a carrier, and I don't think I want to plop Daymon in the carrier to "meet" Holland.
So I need to know... Do you think it's safe to let them meet each other in the next day or so? I've got a spray bottle and a blanket handy. If I tried to predict their behavior, I'd say Holland will be the aggressor, and she has claws, but no teeth. Daymon hasn't shown any sign of aggression, even when Holland has hissed at him, so I don't know what to really expect from him. He's just a sweet, laid-back guy.
Thoughts?
EDIT - nice way I spelled "advice" in the title... 











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