Need some tips on how to introduce a new kitten to a home with 3 adult cats?

Need some tips on how to introduce a new kitten to a home with 3 adult cats. Asked by newbie3916791 52 months ago Similar questions: tips introduce kitten home adult cats Pets > Cats.

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I would put it into another room where they can smell it for awhile through the door. It is easier to get a young cat that doesn't have the scent of sexual maturity yet, to mix with the older cats. My male cats didn't mind a female cat that was not fixed yet.

I also rubbed the scent of the new cat, u\onto the other cats when I petted them.

Slowly I am in the process of integrating a 4 month old kitten with a 14 year old cat. So this is fresh experience here. If possible, give the kitten its own space.

I temporarily re-did the spare room as a kitten haven. Everything the kitten would need--toys, scratching post, food, water, litter box, various beds and hidey-holes to play in, etc. The first day, the kitten stayed in there with zero contact with the old cat.(And he howled. And ripped up the carpet by the door trying to get out.

And howled some more. So he got to sleep in the bed, where the old cat never sleeps anymore.) The cats met the second day, of all places, at the vet. The old cat already had an appointment (he's got cancer; he goes once a month) and the kitten had his "new kitten" exam.

I brought them in separate carriers. The first 5 days, when we were home, the kitten was allowed to roam the house, but we kept an eye on him. If we left, even for an hour, he got locked up.

He proved himself madly in love with the old cat, but the old cat wasn't interested in being friends. The 6th day, we left them alone together while we had lunch at a restaurant. No bloodshed.

By the 7th day, we weren't locking the kitten up at all.In fact, I tried it, in order to give the old cat a break (he needs his rest), and the old cat cried and looked for the kitten. And the kitten howled and ripped up the carpet. My old cat was used to having a cat friend--the cat he was raised with died and he's been lonely.

Since your cats are used to other cats as well, I predict you will have a similar experience. Both cats now use the spare litter box and the old box, both eat the kitten food in the spare room and the adult food downstairs, and both sleep in all the cat and human beds (not together, but near each other). Right now, the kitten is stretched out between my keyboard and the monitor, sleeping.

The old cat is to my left, next to the keyboard, also sleeping. Peace. :) Sources: image source: my cats, my blog: 360.yahoo.com/bertpiedmont .

Slowly The trick is getting the old cats used to the new one. Cats are actually usually rather accepting of new kittens; they get really mean to full-grown cats. But going slowly is best.

First, put the new kitten in a room for a day or two, and let the cats smell it under the door. (If you're really nuts, you can cut a hole in the door and screen it with chicken wire, like I did. But that was a little overboard.) The kitten will need a litter box, food, and water.

Then bring the kitten out into the rest of the house, supervised. Let the other cats play with it. Let them hiss and spit at each other; they do that.

Just don't let them hurt each other. Do that for a while (an hour or two) and then put the kitten away in the room. Repeat for a few days.

If the cats are being OK, you can even leave the kitten unsupervised. Eventually you can just leave them alone while you go out. That always makes me nervous but I've never had a problem.

Move the kitten's litter box next to the old litter box (or boxes, with that many cats). After a few days you can retire the kitten's litter box, if you want, and it will share with the other cats. If you have one cat being particularly obnoxious you may want to let the other cats into the kitten's room to acclimate to the kitten, but exclude the obnoxious one.

This sounds all paranoid, and it's really overkill. Most people just drop the kitten off and have it fend for itself, and most of the time the kitten does just fine. Some cat will befriend it and they'll get along as a team.

Do it very slowly in small steps. From personal experience I can tell you that cats hate anything that upsets their routine. So bringing a new cat into the picture is going to upset the routine and add a whole bunch of complexities to their social relationships.

One author suggests the following steps, which are what I have followed for years. The Safe Room and First Vet Visit Put your kitten in a separate room for a couple of days - we call it a "Safe Room. " It can be Make sure she has her own bed, food and water dish, and litterbox.

After she has been cleared by your veterinarian, you can open the door to her "safe room" a crack, to allow the other cats to sniff and peek at her. Rub her with a towel to impart her scent on it, then put the towel in the sleeping area of your existing cats, so they’ll become accustomed to her smell. Reverse the tactic by giving her a towel or blanket with the scent of your older cats.In a couple of days you can put her in a carrier and allow the other cats to come in and sniff her.

Expect a bit of growling and hissy-spitty behavior at first; it’s instinctive. However, soon-- within a week or two, the bunch of them should settle down and be getting along just fine. The key is not to rush things, and to give both sides a lot of individual attention in the interim.

cats.about.com/cs/kittencare/a/kitcareon... We took in a kitten in January. I turned a spare bedroom into her room for several days.By day three we were able to introduce her to my older cat, who is very sweet natured. By day five, they were running and playing.

In other cases when the older cat (or cats) weren’t so sweet natured, we took a lot more time to make the first introductions. We kept the kitten in a carrier during these first few visits. Eventually, the older cat calmed down and started to play with the kitten almost immediately.

Three factors will determine how quickly you can introduce the kitten. Tempers of the other cats; size of the house; age of the kitten. If the other cats are sweet natured, you have a lot of house space and the kitten is at least six months old, you can move more quickly.

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Slowly. Our kitten required no introduction interval. He was everyone’s best friend from the first moment.

But he seemed like an outgoing person the moment I saw him at the shelter. For other cats, coming from difficult and uncertain histories, we have introduced them slowly by letting them have their own rooms for a while. The new cat gets to meet the existing cats by smelling them under the door.

Depending on how everyone seems, this can last for one to three days. After that, everyone can be more relaxed. One cat never did adjust, and we had to keep him in seperate rooms for several years.

Here’s what the Humane Society suggests: hsus.org/pets/pet_care/our_pets_for_life... .

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