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When you are in the room with your new cat as hard as this is, you need to let him be.

Your new cat needs to stay in your room for 48 hours.

So you may have temporarily close the household cat in a room whilst you transport the new cat into your home.

You will need to transport your new cat into the designated room without your household cat seeing the ‘intruder’.

You will need to prepare a litterbox, a scratching post, water bowls, biscuit bowls and meat bowls for your cat during their temporary stay. As this is a place where you can stay with your new cat in a relaxed environment.

So what do your need to do to successfully introduce two cats? Here is our tried and tested method of successfully introducing cats. Over time fear will develop into curiosity. The ‘intruder’ cat will also be fearful in a new environment with new smells.įear is the first and strongest emotion that is hard wired in us all, and the same is true for cats. When you introduce a new ‘intruder’ cat to your home, the household cat will feel a sense of fear followed by the need to defend their space. They feel safe and relaxed in their abode. If you have a household cat then you have to understand that they view your home as their territory.

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To understand how to introduce two cats for the first time you need to understand the concept behind what your are trying to achieve. We had no choice but to keep the two cats permanently separated. Introducing cats like this creates a permanent situation whereby the two cats will no longer tolerate each other.įrom this point no matter what we did Victor and Jack could not stand to be in the same room together. We learnt that day that you cannot introduce two cats out of the cold. We immediately separated the cats, but the damage had been done. Victor was smaller than Jack at the time and had quite the shock.

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When Jack met Victor he launched into full attack.

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Not losing any time we brought Victor home and left him free to explore our home and our pets… His name was Victor, and he was about 6 months old at the time. It was at this time we purchased one of our first Maine Coons. We thought that another cat may help him become calmer and improve his behavior. For example, you could be stroking him as he purred lovingly in your lap and then all of a sudden he would leap up and forcefully attack the hand that stroked him. It is therefore essential that kittens stay with their mothers for the first 3 months of their life.ĭue to the absence of a mother cat in Jack’s life he developed unfortunate faults. Kittens grown with their mothers develop into balanced cats. This is a crucial to the development of a well balanced kitten, and something a human simply cannot emulate. We later learned from experience in our cattery that the mother cat teaches her kittens how to behave from months 2-3 of age. Of course we were no substitute for his real mother but we did our best at the time. Against all the odds and with little or no experience at the time we managed to raise him, bottle feeding him and then weening him onto solid food. He had been abandoned for some reason so we decided to raise him as our own. We found him as a week old kitten at our local beach. I feel an anecdote may well be the easiest way to explain how not to introduce two cats together, learnt the hard way…