Introducing a Second Cat Into Your Home

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jstfrths - 10 Jan 2007 22:21 GMT

If you have to introduce a second cat into your house, your first kitty
cat may have trouble getting used to the new intruder. If you put a
little perfume on both cats, they will smell the same as each other,
they then will trust each other more. - from the cats section of
www.intellectual-playground.com

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MoMo - 11 Jan 2007 00:14 GMT

I always read once, but never tried myself, that you should take a towel and
rub it all over the cat that you already have in the house/apartment and then
rub that towel all over the new cat so that the new cat has the old cat's
smell on it and then vice versa over time.

>If you have to introduce a second cat into your house, your first kitty
>cat may have trouble getting used to the new intruder. If you put a
>little perfume on both cats, they will smell the same as each other,
>they then will trust each other more. - from the cats section of
>www.intellectual-playground.com

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Kim - 11 Jan 2007 05:35 GMT

Perfume? I can't possibly imagine the affects of perfume on a cat with
all those chemicals that get it to smell the way it does. And they get
to lick that off of themselves or each other? Cat vs. Cat by Pam
Johnson-Bennett.

http://www.amazon.com/Cat-Vs-Keeping-Peace-When/dp/0142004758/sr=1-1/qid=1168493
499/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-2328307-0939825?ie=UTF8&s=books

Even though my two cats have been living together for 4 years before I
started reading it, but it still very helpful especially now that I
have to deal with feeding them two different diets for 30 days.

> If you have to introduce a second cat into your house, your first kitty
> cat may have trouble getting used to the new intruder. If you put a
> little perfume on both cats, they will smell the same as each other,
> they then will trust each other more. - from the cats section of
> www.intellectual-playground.com

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Catcetera - 15 Jan 2007 16:39 GMT

How I introduce new cats:
A few months ago when my step dad was in the coronary critical care
unit someone had to inherit his kitties. Guess who got that honor? I
luckily have a large house that use to be a two family. the four new
cats stayed upstairs and my three others downstairs for about a week.
The door to the upstairs closes but leaves a gap at the bottom for the
kitties to smell each other and bat at each other under the door. I
then switched places for a couple days with my kitties upstairs and the
newbies downstairs. I then started leaving the door open for all the
kitties to decide where they would like to hang out. They all basically
intergrated pretty nice (some run ins but nothing real nasty). And all
the newbies really like my dogs too which i had concerns about. I
thought for sure they would not care for my pitt bull, Jenny, but all
but one adores her. My Nathan (a big orange fluffy newbie) just adores
Jenny wanting to sleep next to her all the time. Pics of most of my
babies are on my website, under "my pet family" fi you would like to
see them. Can I post pictures on this group? Please remember website is
a work in progress, and feel free to email me with any comments or
suggestions. Thanks and hoping everyone's process of integrating new
kitties in their home is as painless as mine was.

> If you have to introduce a second cat into your house, your first kitty
> cat may have trouble getting used to the new intruder. If you put a
> little perfume on both cats, they will smell the same as each other,
> they then will trust each other more. - from the cats section of
> www.intellectual-playground.com

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DLane - 17 Jan 2007 02:03 GMT

I just rub the new cat with catnip and watch the magic.

> If you have to introduce a second cat into your house, your first kitty
> cat may have trouble getting used to the new intruder. If you put a
> little perfume on both cats, they will smell the same as each other,
> they then will trust each other more. - from the cats section of
> www.intellectual-playground.com

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