Thanks Diane. Wonderful!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Diane Rosenfeldt Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 10:45 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: RE: o/t established cat and new cat My first instinct was to say, first own cat, then after a while,
Kitty. BUT. Then I thought of my own move, when Gail and I combined
our respective households -- me with Missy, Luc, and at that time Phoebe, and
her with Tribble and at that time Kitty. We hadn't introduced them all to
each other, even though we lived a hallway away in our apartment building.
It just didn't seem like a good idea. When we moved, we weren't too
worried about the females, who were all sort of loners and wouldn't have
territorial issues. We were worried about our two big Alphas, especially
because Tribble especially is so confrontational. But when we let them out
of the carriers and they saw each other, it was literally
like:
(nose touch) "Dude!"
(ass sniff) "Dude!"
No territorial stuff at all. (It
probably helped, in the long run, that this house has 11 rooms and they wouldn't
have to see each other at all if they didn't want to, but they didn't know that
then.) So I'm wondering if, since there will be big changes for both cats
anyway, it would be fine to introduce them to the new place at the same time,
and maybe there wouldn't be territory wars. I don't know. Might be
completely dependent on the cats' personalities, whether the original cat NEEDS
to be Alpha?
Diane R.
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