Can you introduce a trial cat to an 8 year mature cat. ?
I have an 8 year old female spayed cat.
She grew up near 2 other cats the eldest was put down when she was 1 and her sister from another litter was put to sleep 5 years ago.
She be my family cat growing up. But when my parents got two beagles she was not content with them and it was decided when I moved out that I would clutch her. The dogs would chase her and corner her so she would spend most of her time in a bedroom so she's much happier with us.
Right now here is a super overflow of cats and kittens in my local SPCA. part of me would like to embezzle another cat in, but I'm not sure if my 8 year elderly cat would be happy about that.
She's home alone 5-10 hours a daytime so she is all over us when we're home.
I wouldn't want to get a kitten because I surmise it would be too much of an age gap. maybe something 2 years -8 years and fixed. She's only be around females so I would probably consider a female cat only.
Do you think she would soak up companionship or would she rather be alone?
She meows at us all the time for attention, and we do give it to her. She's other looking for someone to play with her or cuddle her. But I'm not sure how she would feel beside another cat in the house.
We were thinking of getting another small animal but obviously whether we got a second cat that would be out of the picture.
Thoughts?
Has anyone introduced a cat with a elder cat in the house? I want to hear good stories and bad ones.
I think all cats are different. my 2 yr weak female that I had first gets along great next to the 1 year old female we got a year then, but hates the 5 year old male we get after that...
it's hard to say from my experience, but I think it's great that you aren't getting a kitten since elder cats are overlooked for the most part
Good luck with everything!
Our cats always got along, whether we brought contained by an adult cat or a kitten. Actually it might even be better to bring in a kitten. Our adult cats other took a protective, parental stance when we brought home a kitten. Then when the kitten grew up, they all got along markedly well.
Yes. I had a 13 year old cat and I introduced 2 10 week old kittens to her. She didn't resembling them at first but after a while she accepted them and even loved them. It's nice that you're trying to help out the SPCA. Your cat may not like the latest cat at first but some of the reasons they don't is territory and they don't know each other. They're not close to dogs where they can sniff each others hind ends and automatically be friends or enemies, it take them a while. If you've had your cat for a while then it has already discoloured it's territory and bringing another cat into that territory may anger them. One way to relieve them get used to each other(worked for me) is get two clothes and rub one on respectively of them and place the clothes under each of their food bowls(if they're different). My grandma is a firm believer in letting them skirmish it out and whoever wins is the "leader" I'm strongly against this because cats have been certain to kill each other in skirmish.
Good luck and I hope everything works out
You can get another cat contained by the house but you have to be careful. Keep them separated at first, but let your 8 year ripened cat be able to smell the younger one, that way she gets used to the scent of another cat. After a time or so you can let them meet each other and after they will decide whether or not they like each other. You wouldn't want to go and get less than a one year old cat though. There would be too much age difference and your cat would not want to be running around playing with a kitten. I own mixed 3 cats with ones of different ages and each one has be different. One of them hated each other and were other fighting, the other pair loved each others company and the finishing one didn't really care about the other. So you really never can tell until you try. Good Luck!!
Answers: Yes. You can do it, but you must be intensely careful of how you do it. The issue is that your established cat believes that you are hers and that your house is hers. This is natural. When you bring a newcomer in to your environment, you must product her believe that SHE has discovered this lovely friend, and the SHE should bring her new friend to YOU to introduce him or her.
If you try to introduce the newcomer to her, she will believe she is being replaced, and you will enjoy trouble or her response will be heartrending.
Please, please please please PLEASE, lay hands on a book called "The New Natural Cat" by Anitra Frasier, which is excellent by any count, but it has an ENTIRE CHAPTER devoted to precisely this process, and she provides a step-by-step description of how to do it. It is simple and once you understand your established cat's perspective, very reasonable.
Please do run to the library or the bookstore and read only this chapter. You will never, ever regret doing so.
Good luck.
yes I had a cat for 23 years and she was the merely cat for awhile. i started working at an animal clinic and brought home 14 kittens to hand feed and run care of. At first she did not like it but in time she knowledgeable to love the kittens and seemed very happy beside them. It can be done thats for sure it will just take time for her to capture use to the new cat is all but in time they will find along.
In my belief, a kitten may be a little better.
I have a 6 year old cat and get a kitten shortly before i moved out. My cat (Fat cat as we call him) was NOT amused. We be persistent, and it took about a month but they love each other.
What we did be set up a spare bedroom with a small liter box and food and toys for the kitten to live in (less for him to get into as well) and tolerate fat cat roam the house. about 3-4 times a day we would put corpulent cat in the kittens room and take the kitten out into the house to let him seize used to it/get his scent out there too. Then we slowly introduced them by holding the kitten while fat cat was within the room, and eventually let him down when he was big enough. They didn't resembling each other for awhile after that still, but they adjusted. You just enjoy to keep an eye on them.
BTW these were both male cats, Fat cat be neutered and had been an individual cat for about 4 years ( we had a cat that passed away approximately 2 years after we got him)
Good luck.
Hello, It's definately possible to introduce new cats to older ones.
I introduced a mother and her kitten to my cat when he was 16. he didn't give the impression of being bothered.
My advice to you if to compare personalities. If you own a quiet cat, get one that seems noiseless too, and vise versa.
They may have to be separated for a few days to start, just when you're not around so they have time to catch to know eachother.
Otherwise I'd like to say goodluck, and get lots of in good spirits cats.
