Several years ago, I adopted two adult cats. They were both living in a shelter, and I wanted to give them a new life. Unfortunately, they did not hit it off. It took several months for my new pets to tolerate being in the same room without throwing a huge fit. Don’t make the same mistakes I made. Instead, use these steps as you help your multiple cats get along with each other.<\/p>
First, keep the cats separated. I should have kept my boys in different rooms for awhile so they would have space to acclimate to my home and to me before I pushed them to adjust to each other.<\/p>
Consider introducing scents next. Rub a towel against cat #1 then give it to cat #2. Do the same thing for cat #2. If you do this every day for several days, your cats start to understand that another cat lives nearby, and they can begin to get used to each other in a non-threatening way before they spend any physical time together.<\/p>
Your cats are now ready to spend a little more time near each other. Let them explore two rooms that are separated by a door. They won’t be in direct contact but will be close enough to start to make friends. <\/span> <\/span><\/p> Finally, you’re ready to introduce your cats in person. It will be normal for them to hiss a bit, so be prepared to distract them if necessary. And remember that you can still put the cats in separate rooms if they really don’t like each other.<\/p> Helping two cats become friendly with each other takes a little time. These steps will help. Remember to go slow, and give each cat plenty of individual attention as you encourage your pets to make friends.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Several years ago, I adopted two adult cats. They were both living in a shelter, and I wanted to give them a new life. Unfortunately, they did not hit it off. It took several months for my new pets to tolerate being in the same room without throwing a huge fit. Don’t make the same Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":739,"featured_media":68297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"enable_toc":false,"care_reviewed_by":0,"care_post_updated_flag":false,"care_updated_date":"","last_update":"2021-05-19","view_count":2588,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"member-type":[4],"vertical":[7,25],"platform":[2],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","member-type-all","vertical-pets","vertical-pet-care","platform-resources"],"acf":[],"created":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"member-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member-type?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"platform","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/platform?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}