My cats like eachother!

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Kathy02

Cathlete
Ok, for those of you that remember our christmas surprise: The kitten that we already had really liked Gidget our new/old addition to our family. But Gidget did not like the kitten. Gidget would growl and hiss at the kitten as soon as he'd enter the room! I was getting to the point where I thought they would never like eachother. But just over the past month now we've been noticing that Gidget doesn't hiss at the kitten when he tried to play with her. As the matter of fact she plays back now. And the kitten has begun to lick Gidgets head, and then Gidget licks him. Of course this interaction always leads to the two of them chasing eachother through the house, but I'm just so gald that they are getting along!
I just thought I would share my updated story on how things are going with the new cat.

Kathy
 
Ahhh, yes, the joy of feline introductions. We have had incredibly good luck with all of our cats getting along. We introduced a crazy kitten in December (to our 4-year-old male, because he needed a friend to play with), and they became instant play buddies. Then, in January after our 5-year-old female calico passed away due to lung cancer, we adopted a 1-year-old female kitty and everyone was getting along nicely within a couple of days. We always try to do the standard new-cat-introduction procedure, but the new cat usually wants so badly to get out of the isolation room, that it lasts about 2 days and they we just let them all loose in the house. LOL! It's always so great to see the cats finally get along with each other, though. It's a sense of relief!

And all 3 of our cats chase and wrestle with each other - it's hilarious (they're playing, not actually fighting). You'll see a blur of fur run down the hallway accompanied by a galloping sound. Then, you'll see another blur of fur following the first blur of fur. And more galloping. I swear sometimes we have horses instead of cats. ;)

I'm glad to hear your little ones are getting along. :D
 
Emily that is too funny! I always thought it was so strange that a small little cat could run soo loudly! They really don't sound as graceful when they are running do they? A hurd of elephants is what I'm usually reminded of when my cats go running through the house now. But horses works just as well!

Kathy
 
I'm glad Gidget has finally realized the up=side to having a new cat in the house!

I think it's so cute when my cat Bobsie washes the head of one of her brothers (Simon loves it, and washes back, Scooter tolerates it). She does a very thorough head and ear cleaning, punctuated with moments of her bumping her head against theirs and kind of twistiing it into theirs, like a version of a "kitty kiss"!
 
That's great. It usually took my older cat a week or two before she tolerated kittens or new cats. But usually by a month or two you'd never know they weren't raised together as the chased each other down the hallways.

Colleen
 
Yes, any time we've had a cat and brought a new one in, the first one was never happy. But after a while, they'd get used to it and usually end up enjoying the company.

I had this one cat, Axl (I was a Guns n' Roses fan when I got him). Axl was so cool! And very playful! We had this game where we tied a cat-toy mouse on a string and attached it to the arm of a kitchen cart. We'd swing it really high and Axl would leap WAY up to grab it, sometimes doing these flippy-twists in the air. But then when he was 3, I brought "Smithers" home. She was a kitten, about 4 months old. Axl was NOT happy! He hissed and growled at her and would just sit there all puffed up staring at her. Eventually they became very cozy...but Axl never did his trick with the toy mouse again. It's as though he felt he needed to look "cool" to Smithers.

Axl and Smithers remained friendly for a couple years, until Smithers became an adult and started getting really snuggly to her humans. Axl wasn't happy about that, because I think he considered us HIS humans. Then he wasn't so nice to her anymore. He also started spraying in the house, even though he was neutered before he was a year old.

Neither cat was at all happy when we had our baby. They both ran away within 3 months of her being born. Talk about JEALOUS!

Hee hee...I just remember that Axl beat up our german shepherd/pitbull when he was a puppy. He got up on his hind legs and started beating poor Duke on the head, and knocked him right down the stairs!

Animals are awesome.
 
I'm glad to hear the kitties are getting along. I know what you mean about thinking they never would. My husband and I adopted our second cat (who was 3 months old at the time) and our nine year old cat was so angry. He ignored us for months, and I mean months. We actually had to put the little one in a separate bedroom when we weren't home just to avoid conflict, it was that bad. Finally, after nearly a year, we went away for a weekend and decided to let the two of them roam free in the house together (because we new the little one would be scared to death shut up in that bedroom by herself). I guess they worked out their differences, because when we got back, they were getting along just fine. Now, three years later, they are best buds.

I love cat stories.
Shelbygirl
 
>I had this one cat, Axl (I was a Guns n' Roses fan when I got
>him). Axl was so cool!

I just wanted to say that I love this name for a cat! :D You should have gotten a girl-kitty and named her Rose. ;)
 
We have four cats, and the two older ones who've been together for a long time absolutely do not like the two additions we've made to our cat family in the past couple of years. We took in a boy kitty who came up outside and who was pretty friendly, if not a little jumpy. One day he showed up badly injured, so we took him to the vet and cleaned him all up and brought him in. He's calming down now, but he was the most ornery thing to our other two kitties for the longest time. Now we've got a 1 1/2 year old kitty that I still think of as a kitten. Her name is Lucky, because she's lucky to be alive...she almost died as a one-week-old kitten because her mommy died. It took a while to nurse her back to full health, but she's a riot now. She gets along great with the boy kitty, but the two older girls don't want anything to do with her. So, we have a very divided and volatile cat family. Why can't they all just get along?
 
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