Your older cat may have a period of time when it tries to establish a hierarchy with the new kitten.
Cat hissing at new kitten through door.
Do the same for the new cat.
Don t be alarmed by hissing or growling.
Use common sense and patience when integrating a new cat or cats.
Confine your new kitty for a few days allowing the cats to smell each other under the door and on towels you rub on them.
They should begin to stop hissing at each other s scents.
One of her black cat was hissing and trying slap my cat s face in one day not get along and her other cat have no problem with my cat cause they are sibling sister and brother so i.
Encourage interaction through the door.
Alternatively spend more time playing with your cat or give it some new toys to stimulate it and keep it from getting anxious.
If you ve adopted a shy cat or kitten to provide companionship for your resident cat a quicker integration may be best.
To get your cat to stop hissing try giving it some space and time to relax and calm down since cats sometimes hiss because they are stressed or nervous.
Cats need to have order and a new member in the home must know where it ranks.
This morning new cat was on stairs putting paw thru door old cat saw it and ran toward door batting it.
These are normal reactions.
Your existing cat will smell and hear him through the door.
Remember you know your cat s best.
Take a piece of chicken wire or similar material at least 5 feet high and place it across the doorway of a room with no other exit.
Here s the thing old cat never makes any hissing growling or hair up just chases.
I only get kitten till grow into cat.
Hissing is a distance increasing behavior.
Place your new cat s food near the door of his room so he stays near it.
It s normal for cats to hiss at something new or something they don t understand.
Let your current cat smell the towel.
New cats female will growl if approached but no hair up or ears back male cat doesn t do anything just wants to get closer to her.
How to introduce a shy cat companion the exception to the rule.
3 months ago i brought a new kitten home she was a kitten from an alley cat i i quarantined her for 2 weeks while inside vet visits with new kitten nikita.
Open the door to the confinement room and place a see through baby gate at the door.
Natasha is my older cat about 7 yrs old.
But last year i live in the basement at my sister s house and had to bring my cat to upstairs and my sister have 2 cats.
Take the introductions slowly.
