At the vet
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2nd Night: Kitty had a quick veterinarian exam in the afternoon, to make sure he checked out healthy. He also received his Rabies vaccine. Although he did meow quite a lot in his travel sack, he was generally a very well behaved kitten, and seemed to like his sack a lot. I am sure it is a good safe place for him so makes him feel comfortable. On our way home, I again introduced him to our current cats while he was contained. Our female was not pleased, with lots of hissing going on. The males again seem curious, but no ruffled feathers.
So far, our kitten still has no name! We are working on that.
We spent a lot of time in his room with him playing and petting him. He seems to be getting a lot more confident, and less hissing when we walk into the room. As you can see from the photo below, he is learning who we are. I swapped out his crate pad for a t-shirt our cats like to use, and vice versa. This produced a lot of hissing and growling for him, and our female cat. Cirrhi is rather put out – she’s being very crabby, swatting and hissing at EVERYBODY, including us. She gets over it, but is generally displeased. Everybody enjoyed some special soft food (including kitty in his room – we’ve discovered the key to his heart!)
Getting comfortable
He has a lot of spunk, and does a good amount of hissing and growling yet if he scents another cat. He does seem quite vocal so far, meowing at us when we come into the room, and sometimes crying when we leave. I wonder how much of this will hold as he matures.
2nd Day: Happy to find our new kitty had eaten a bunch of food, and used his litter box again. I always worry about vaccine reactions so this was good to see. He’s a bit of a maniac in the litter box though – tosses litter sky high! This morning we left the door open to his room for quite some time – keeping our eye on him, and the other cats. Anytime one of the other cats looks in, he starts hissing and growling, and creeps under a footstool to be safe. It is quite comical. He is half the size of most of our cats! Ritter mostly takes off running. Kai is not interested, though expressed a few quiet meows at us. Cirrhi continues to be annoyed, though with perhaps a SLIGHT bit less hissing and swatting.
We’ll try keeping the door open more tonight and see if he ventures out. I am just afraid he might go under something and we’d never get him back into his safe room. I’m not overly concerned about the other cats, I know what to expect, and know that given the right amount of time, everybody should warm up to each other eventually. We’re hopeful new kitty and Ritter will be good playmates.
More to come!
