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By: How To Introduce A New Kitten Into A Home With Older Cat

How To Introduce A New Kitten Into A Home With Older Cat — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:35:45 +0000

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By: mel

mel — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:59:53 +0000

I’m looking forward to that next post! But also very glad to see more about Olwyn! We’ve had a lot of “armed truce” cat relationships here, most involve Robie with his only-cat tendencies and territorial nature. We introduced our new 1-year-old Fiona as slowly and calmly as possible, but he still stresses out over any invasion of his household. I don’t really want to put him through that again, or our other senior Khaki.

By: Margaret Elmendorf

Margaret Elmendorf — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:31:21 +0000

I am looking forward to hearing more about Olwyn. This is a good post, Pam. I have so many cats, I do have some fights. In fact I have three kittens that are a year old now, two girls and a boy, and the boy attacks this girls. They are all spayed and neutered. I think it starts out as rough housing but the girls really don't like it. And those cats get along well with the rest of the group. Most of them just stay to themselves, cause they are outside 98% of the time. .-= ´s last blog ..The most faithful dog =-.

By: catlindy

catlindy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:37:33 +0000

i am also waiting on the tip of my paws for thursdays blog…
i planned on slowly introducing monkey to the girls but he had other ideas….he is quite the escape artist… and then i weakened…. all three get along most of the time…but it is hard to tell when chase and ambush is play or harassment

By: WereBear

WereBear — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:33:03 +0000

Next post… Olwyn!

By: WereBear

WereBear — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:19:51 +0000

Thanks, Helena, and no, I have no cameras!

I’m so sorry about your Mom, and now one of your older cats. Thursday’s post is about “territory therapy” and I hope there will be useful information there. Also, your distress during your family emergency made the cats’ difficulties even larger. But it is fixable.

That new girl sounds like just the cat you didn’t know you needed.

By: Helena Handbag

Helena Handbag — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:18:00 +0000

Pam, do you keep hidden cameras in my house somewhere? Your posts over the last couple of months have been spookily relevant to our kitty civilization.

A gorgeous dark tabby begged me to hold and pet her at the satellite Humane Society adoption center at our local pet food store (I was in there getting christmas treats for our three cats and, as always, I stopped by to say hi to the cats). She was so compelling, and acted like she knew me: “well, THERE you are!” The HS volunteer was so taken with her abrupt interest in me, that she bent the rules and let me in to pet her. She jumped into my arms and melted, and that was that. On December 23, hubby, kids and I came back to bring her home.

We knew you are supposed to introduce them carefully over a long time, so we kept her in our third floor bedroom with separate litter box and food. They’d only had a chance to sniff and listen to each other when I got the call the morning after Christmas that my Mom had died suddenly. We dashed out of town, got back 5 days later, and found them all together, hissing and panicked. (Emergency teen cat sitter didn’t take segregation seriously!) It has been rough going ever since. Then a month ago one of our older sweeties died after a long battle with kidney failure. So, yeah, I’m hanging on your every word these days.

By: Alina

Alina — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:53:35 +0000

I don’t know about anyone else, but I would love an Olwyn update!