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Will my 2 yr old cat get mad if I get a kitten2007-11-25 12:33:16

I have introduced lots of new kittens to my cats and eventually they all get along or learn to tolerate each other.

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I've been through this numerous times. When I was younger, my parents found a kitten in their backyard. My and my brother's cats growled and hissed at her for a while before they got used to her. With my own cats now I've been through it twice. Akasha, my oldest growled and hissed at Tommy for about 2 weeks when I first got him (she was 1, he was 3 months). Now they act like they're best friends. I went through this again earlier this year when my husband and I adopted a week-old kitten. My other two (4 and 3 years respectively) growled and hissed at him. This time is took longer, mostly because Hobbes was too small for me to leave on the floor alone with the adult cats. When he got big enough to roam around supervised and my other two got more and more used to him, they accepted him as one of their own. So, it's in a cat's nature to growl and hiss at a newcomer, but if you leave them to work it out, they may become very close, or fall into a tolerable silence, but the upset will eventually pass.

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My big baby (oldest cat) was 2, or older, when we got my littlest baby (youngest cat). My oung cat is skittish around new people, and animals to I suppose. There was some hissing, and hiding. But now they get along with each other wonderfully. Though sometimes they play rough, and my little one gets scratches, and cuts. But that's not because they are fighting. Though I really wish the big one wouldn't do that.. I don't think he knows his own strength. But he's never been badly injured, so I'm assuming the play is just a healthy part of being a cat. My vet even said just to put some antiseptic on the cuts.

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It will be a long process to introduce them. What I did (told by the vet) was to take the kitten from room to room of my house, leaving the kitten there for enough time to have its' scent settle in that room and then I took the adult cat around the house room by room smelling the other cat, without them seeing each other, then when the adult cat got the point that there was another cat in the house I gradually introduced them to each other, letting the kitten roam around and watching the old one closely, even holding him.

If you take time to introduce them there should be no problem, remember cats are territorial, if you do get the kitten remember to buy the multiple cat cat litter, to prevent them from peeing all over the place.