Hi Everyone,
We have just got ourselves a second cat. She's lovely, 3 years old and very loving. She is still quite jumpy but is fine when I'm around.
Before we got her, I decided to look up advice on introducing 2 cats. Obviously most of it is aimed towards a kitten, but I assumed the same principle applies. I set everything up, the new cat was going to stay upstairs in the bedroom and Kitty would have the run of the rest of the house as usual.
The plan lasted a couple of hours before a forgetful member of the house left a door open. Anyway, i've tried to keep to the advice as much as possible but seeing as they'd already met, their curiosity was gone. I've since given them a few hours supervised meetings a day. It is pretty much ok in the sense they don't fight. Kitty keeps her distance and does funny meows. Lou couldn't care less. She's used to other cats, so kitty isn't anything interesting to her. Whenever she goes near kitty, kitty hisses and sometimes, raises a paw, but never actually fights.
At the moment, they are both sleeping in here with me. Kitty is next to me and lou is on the arm chair.
What I'm worried about is that Kitty is still quite hostile towards Lou and I've noticed today that Lou was becoming a little less tollerant. I don't know how to make life better for them and for them to become better together. I hate the idea of Kitty not coming round to the idea of lou living here and would hate to have to keep them a part when we're not home.
Does anyone have any advice to calm this cat lover down?
Thanks
We have just got ourselves a second cat. She's lovely, 3 years old and very loving. She is still quite jumpy but is fine when I'm around.
Before we got her, I decided to look up advice on introducing 2 cats. Obviously most of it is aimed towards a kitten, but I assumed the same principle applies. I set everything up, the new cat was going to stay upstairs in the bedroom and Kitty would have the run of the rest of the house as usual.
The plan lasted a couple of hours before a forgetful member of the house left a door open. Anyway, i've tried to keep to the advice as much as possible but seeing as they'd already met, their curiosity was gone. I've since given them a few hours supervised meetings a day. It is pretty much ok in the sense they don't fight. Kitty keeps her distance and does funny meows. Lou couldn't care less. She's used to other cats, so kitty isn't anything interesting to her. Whenever she goes near kitty, kitty hisses and sometimes, raises a paw, but never actually fights.
At the moment, they are both sleeping in here with me. Kitty is next to me and lou is on the arm chair.
What I'm worried about is that Kitty is still quite hostile towards Lou and I've noticed today that Lou was becoming a little less tollerant. I don't know how to make life better for them and for them to become better together. I hate the idea of Kitty not coming round to the idea of lou living here and would hate to have to keep them a part when we're not home.
Does anyone have any advice to calm this cat lover down?
Thanks