Saturday, May 31, 2014

How to Integrate Cats

Integrating  new cats can be a challenge for your family. 
Cats are territorial, and don’t take well to unknown cats suddenly appearing in their territory and area. The inclination of most cats is to attack a new cat to try to make it go away, or to run away from it in fear. Some of them act badly.

Various factors can impact how a particular pair of cats will respond to new one. But until the two cats are actually confronting one another, one can't really know ahead of time how it will be. Each pairing is going to be different and really difficult, since cats are all individuals, with various characteristics, histories, and temperaments. The ages of the cats are an important factor as well.

Cats need some help from human to adjust to each other peacefully.
 Therefore, a slow, carefully managed introduction over many days, or even some weeks, is needed to give the best possible result. To just plop a new cat in with a resident cat can lead to a disaster and may have a terrible experience for you.

Introducing young kittens (under 5 months old) to adult cats requires some special considerations and situations, primarily for the safety of the  new kitten.  
Many of the same techniques used to introduce two adult cats are used in this situation, but also there are some important differences in details.


At the end if you want to have two healthy cats in your house which share their territory friendly with each other you have to be patient .

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