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Hi all,
We've had our cat Linon, a 2yr old rescue kitty, 9 months. When she came to us she was a scaredy-cat, didn't come out of her starting room for a month, we didn't even see anything more than eyes in an igloo for the first fortnight! Now she is affectionate and will come to us and miaow for pets, but she's still what I would call nervous - she doesn't like us to walk past her when she's lay in the middle of the floor and will run away, she still spends about as much time under furniture as on it, and she gets very twitchy if you touch her with 2 hands at once. She loves company though, and likes to be near us - as soon as we sit on the sofa she'll appear and sit next to us, she'll sleep in the lounge in the day and upstairs in the spare room when we go to bed, etc.
The last month we've been taking care of a stray cat in the neighbourhood, to the point he has practically moved in, although we don't let him in the house and our existing kitty doesn't go outside. I've been trying to get a shelter to take him but they're all so full. He's an un-neutered male, incredibly friendly, just wants to sit on your lap all the time. No idea how old he is. We're now thinking maybe we should just keep him ourselves, since we love him (and he seems to love us) and the weather is starting to get bad.
Obviously we need to get our stray boy checked for any diseases he could pass on to our existing kitty, and also he'd have to be neutered before we could even think of introductions, which we would do very slowly and making sure our existing kitty still feels like the Queen of the Castle. My concern is more for our existing kitty, who is of course our first priority - since she is nervous, I don't know if introducing another cat would be good or bad for her. She seems to want affection a lot, and she was originally brought into the shelter with in a group with other cats, so I know she has been friendly with other kitties before - we also work long hours, so she might well benefit from having another cat around for company. On the other hand, I just feel like it might be a bit too early for her and I want to see her grow not revert to hiding under the sofa all day, especially since our stray is very confident.
Normally I would wait a few more months to see how she is before even thinking of getting another cat (and getting her more used to going outside etc especially before getting an outdoor cat!) but this stray seems to have chosen us and I want to help him... but I want to do what is best for both cats. Can anybody offer some advice? I've been going round and round on this in my head for days...
We've had our cat Linon, a 2yr old rescue kitty, 9 months. When she came to us she was a scaredy-cat, didn't come out of her starting room for a month, we didn't even see anything more than eyes in an igloo for the first fortnight! Now she is affectionate and will come to us and miaow for pets, but she's still what I would call nervous - she doesn't like us to walk past her when she's lay in the middle of the floor and will run away, she still spends about as much time under furniture as on it, and she gets very twitchy if you touch her with 2 hands at once. She loves company though, and likes to be near us - as soon as we sit on the sofa she'll appear and sit next to us, she'll sleep in the lounge in the day and upstairs in the spare room when we go to bed, etc.
The last month we've been taking care of a stray cat in the neighbourhood, to the point he has practically moved in, although we don't let him in the house and our existing kitty doesn't go outside. I've been trying to get a shelter to take him but they're all so full. He's an un-neutered male, incredibly friendly, just wants to sit on your lap all the time. No idea how old he is. We're now thinking maybe we should just keep him ourselves, since we love him (and he seems to love us) and the weather is starting to get bad.
Obviously we need to get our stray boy checked for any diseases he could pass on to our existing kitty, and also he'd have to be neutered before we could even think of introductions, which we would do very slowly and making sure our existing kitty still feels like the Queen of the Castle. My concern is more for our existing kitty, who is of course our first priority - since she is nervous, I don't know if introducing another cat would be good or bad for her. She seems to want affection a lot, and she was originally brought into the shelter with in a group with other cats, so I know she has been friendly with other kitties before - we also work long hours, so she might well benefit from having another cat around for company. On the other hand, I just feel like it might be a bit too early for her and I want to see her grow not revert to hiding under the sofa all day, especially since our stray is very confident.
Normally I would wait a few more months to see how she is before even thinking of getting another cat (and getting her more used to going outside etc especially before getting an outdoor cat!) but this stray seems to have chosen us and I want to help him... but I want to do what is best for both cats. Can anybody offer some advice? I've been going round and round on this in my head for days...
