Hi, I haven’t really posted since I joined awhile ago, mainly I just look at the kitties.
But, I had to tell you about the new addition to our family and get any ideas on introducing my Ginger boy to her.
On Saturday my partner and I picked up Electra, a 13 year old calico from one of the local Feral rescue groups. She had been abandoned in a feral colony in a biggish town nearby. The person feeding and trapping the ferals recognized that she was domesticated, they brought her in and found out that she had to have several teeth pulled, had a urinary tract infection and was starving. They took care of all her problems, though she is stil on an antibiotic. She is still looking for a forever home, we are just fostering her. Her former foster family is taking a long trip and she was bullying their 15 year old cat.
Now we already have a 7 year old male orange tabby. Who commutes between my apartment and my partner’s apartment (there are several reasons why we can’t live together full-time). He is currently with me and Electra with my partner, but assuming Electra doesn’t get adopted in the next few weeks, I’m going to want to spend more than one night at the other house (I only leave Ginger alone for 24-30 hours and not more than once a week) and Ginger will come with me and meet his new “older” sister.
We have no idea how Ginger will react since he has been an only cat since we got him at 5 months. The apartment is so small that there is not really anyway to keep them seperated and still have access to food and litterbox.
We have thought of taking a shirt that my parnter has worn (with her scent) and then have Ginger mark it and then take it to Electra and vis versa. We could also put Electra back in her carry crate for the first introduction, but we wouldn’t want to keep her in it very long. Any other ideas?
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