So things have been progressing fabulously with introducing Gouda (10F) and Pistachio (6 mo.F) since we got Pistachio 1.5 months ago. We are keeping the doors open in our apartment most of the time, the cats have slept on the bed together during the day, and while they aren't cuddling and we still have some hisses and swats here and there, they are generally coexisting!
We were working a lot with the play time leading into scheduled meal time. This was super helpful in the beginning. Pistachio is super food motivated, whereas Gouda has never been food driven. We're now feeding them 1.5 feet apart with zero barriers in the morning and at night, and its going well on top of everything else! We've now reached the point though where Pistachio is dying to eat Gouda's food. She wants everything but what is in her own bowl. We rotate between four different kitten foods just to switch it up and have found the ones that she enjoys most, but she still wants to eat anything but her own food as of a few days ago. Naturally this has made it much more difficult to have them eating together since Pistachio starts crowding Gouda's space and trying to eat out of her bowl, making Gouda walk away from meal time.
I guess my real question here boils down to - do you think feeding them separately (at least in the morning) will cause backtracking or hinder the progress we've made over the last 1.5 months?
We were working a lot with the play time leading into scheduled meal time. This was super helpful in the beginning. Pistachio is super food motivated, whereas Gouda has never been food driven. We're now feeding them 1.5 feet apart with zero barriers in the morning and at night, and its going well on top of everything else! We've now reached the point though where Pistachio is dying to eat Gouda's food. She wants everything but what is in her own bowl. We rotate between four different kitten foods just to switch it up and have found the ones that she enjoys most, but she still wants to eat anything but her own food as of a few days ago. Naturally this has made it much more difficult to have them eating together since Pistachio starts crowding Gouda's space and trying to eat out of her bowl, making Gouda walk away from meal time.
I guess my real question here boils down to - do you think feeding them separately (at least in the morning) will cause backtracking or hinder the progress we've made over the last 1.5 months?
and started eating out of Ozzy's bowl. I decided to try feeding them together and suddenly Ozzy wasn't so interested in eating out of her bowl. 
