Appearance of a new cat in the house for a cat – the old resident – the real stress. It is a right reason for it to doubt love of the owner. Such situation and for a brand new cat is difficult. How to make so that they as soon as possible reconciled and peacefully got on in the house?
Instruction
1. First of all try to help to accustom quicker to the newcomer to a cat on the new place. Acquaint him with all residents – both people, and animals, show the new territory. Slowly the cat old resident also has to get over changes. Let's it sniff at a basket or a bag in which you brought a cat. Calm him, let know that the new animal will not oppress or offend him.
2. In advance prepare a separate bowl for the newcomer. It is also desirable to prepare also separate beds and toilets. Bowls deliver on distance not less than two meters from each other as animals can perceive each other as competitors. Later, after they will get used to each other, bowls can be shifted.
3. Surely keep a new cat on a quarantine to avoid a drift of infectious diseases. It will be better if they live about a week in different rooms. But do not forget, as the isolated cat needs your attention therefore communicate with it, pay attention. But only after visit of the pet of a hand it is necessary to wash.
4. It is better to organize a meeting of two cats in advance. At the first meeting you hold the cat on hands. Do not interfere with contact of two animals at all, they have to find out who is who. As cats very much value the territory, fights and hissings, of course, are inevitable. If a fight was developed serious, separate them and isolate for a while from each other. To make sober fighters, it is possible to use water. If everything was, and a fight did not take place, then it is necessary to undertake nothing, cats will get acquainted and will gradually make friends.
5. The aggression in relation to the stranger, cats can express differently - from a territory tag, to the full from food. Therefore, try to befriend them gradually. So, it is possible to allow them to see in day on half an hour, gradually extending their meetings. It is possible to interchange the position of them in order that they got used to each other smell.