Please can anyone offer me advice?
We have got a Bengal female kitten (Misty)who is 6 moths old. We got her at only 6weeks. We had no idea that this was too early at the time. She can be quite volatile with us. We decided that she was lonely and got another kitten yesterday a 15wk female bengal (Darcey)who is very affectionate but timid.
We stupidly made the mistake of introducing them immediately. Misty was growling and hissing. We have now secluded the new kitten to our daughters room, she is getting on fine in there. However out Misty is now very cross with us and growls whenever she smells the kitten on us. We have had to resort to washing all over before we can go near Misty. We are very upset that we may have upset our baby when we thought we were doing the right thing. What can we do?????
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HELP PLEASE!!!
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Hi, Kat,
I added a pink tag to your post, 'new kitten', if you click on it, you'll see many threads on this subject (try 'Can Someone Help Me', "Introducing a kitten to my other kitten," "Introducing new cat" and 'Help, we just got a new 5 week old kitten...'). And I'm sure other TDKers will jump in with suggestions.
You could try Feliway, a hormone diffuser, to help calm Misty down. Many TDKers swear by it. Otherwise, you need to introduce them very slowly and gently. Other suggestions include getting them used to each other's scent first, before they actually meet. Good luck!
Oops, also a fellow TDKer, Ann, once suggested these sites for good advice:
http://maxshouse.com/introducing_cats.htm
http://www.fourpaws.org/pages/adopting_pages/introducing_cats.html
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Welcome to TDK Kat, those tags Jcat added are great, I hope they help you with getting Misty and Darcey to be best of friends.
Just noticed you're a Brit Kat, it's good to have another Brit on board. My family are from Hereford, many generations ago. They sailed to New Zealand in the 1800's.Posted 2 years ago by Moonshadow_NZ #
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Kat, jcat has offered some good advice. Feliway does work I have heard. It's a good "stress" diffuser and I think there is something called the Bach's remedy but you have to make sure it's for animals and not people...not sure of the name but I think Willow and Windi's Mom uses that for Windi, who is a bit skittish...
We have other Brits on this site who will love to say hi. Madcatwoman. Pika, PollysMum, Metsa(Scotland), Eleneki(she's in Ireland)..I am sure I am missing a few more that haven't posted in a while :)Posted 2 years ago by cricketsmama #
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Welcome Kat to the fluffiest site on the internet. We're a family here, and glad to expand the circle for another.
Patience with introductions is the key...even though it's so very hard sometimes, we want the new baby to get along with the current Ruler of the House, and it sometimes just doesn't work out that way.
Current kitty needs lots of reassurance that you still love her 'the best', and the new one also needs to know you love -her- 'the best'. :-)
While they are separated, you can get an idea of the new baby's personality a bit better.
Keep us all posted and please share pictures of your kittykids as soon as you can!
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