With you already there lives one cat or a cat. But suddenly you decide to take one more fluffy friend, or you were given by his friends for the period of the holiday and asked to look after it. Not important, for what reason you had one more resident, now you are faced by a problem of acquaintance of two cats. How to make it so that animals got on among themselves and did not carry all house in attempts to sort out the relations? At cats such different characters. Someone will quietly apprehend appearance of a new cat, and someone will be ready aggressively.
Instruction
1. If animals still small, then is to acquaint them with each other the easiest. Little kittens adapt to appearance of the new friend easier. Let a kitten into the room with other animal and see to their reaction. Let they will sniff at each other and will get acquainted. Prepare for one and for another separate pans and drinking bowls even if then they will eat from one ware. Pay to kittens identical amount of attention, let any of them do not feel deprived. If you notice that they show aggression on the relation to each other, or someone one is ready on fighting, then it is possible to give to drink soothing for cats. If you show consideration for kittens during this period, then will notice soon how they amicably and cheerfully play together.
2. More difficult the situation is if it is necessary to make friends adult cats as they already have the built-up character. It is difficult for some animal to accept the fact that in their territory someone else will live. For a start let's cats sniff at each other. Better if the new animal at the same time is in carrying, and its door will be closed. Perhaps, you will see at once that cats begin to hiss at each other. If it there is no that, can try to let out a new cat. Only you watch closely reaction both. If you see the first signs of aggression, then divide animals.
3. If from first minutes the cats did not find mutual understanding, then lodge them in different rooms. In the room where there will live a new animal, put a feeding trough and a toilet. Let he at first will grow roots in one room. And give to the old cat a laying or other thing from which the competitor's smell proceeds. Let him gradually get used to him. With the same purpose several times a day change animals rooms.
4. Pay enough attention to both one, and second animal. That anybody of them had no reason for jealousy.
5. You can pull an iron grid that cats could not get through it between rooms, but at the same time could see each other well. It is possible also from two parties from this partition to put bowls with food. It will help cats to get used to coexistence too.
6. When you notice that cats ceased to hiss, try to a fight, the grid can be removed. But at the same time during few weeks you should not leave animals of some. Leaving for work or on affairs, it is better to part them on different rooms. If within several weeks you see that animals behave well and friendly, then it is possible to consider that your task of their acquaintance is carried out.