Bella meet Kitty. Kitty meet Bella

[Dee-O-Gee]

I started a picture thread the other night which also brought out concerns of our kitties, Bella and Kitty.

14+ has given us a wealth of knowledge and thought that Bella & Kitty deserved their own discussions.

14+; today we brought out the baby powder and hubby lightly rubbed it into his palms then stroked each cat gently with powder on palms. Hubby has always been the "go to" cat person in our house so we all designated him to this procedure.

Kitty has been the one living in our daughter's room while Bella has ruled the rest of the house.

After rubbing the baby powder on each, we re-introduced Kitty back to the main living room with Bella on one couch and daddy coddling Kitty.

Both looked at each other then Kitty got up to investigate Bella's being there. She sniffed Bella while Bella just looked at Kitty.

Kitty then quickly dashed off upstairs back into our daughter's room.

While this was a small step, it was a huge success for Kitty.

We're going to keep working on the re-introductions and allow Bella to venture up to our daughter's room, supervised of course so they can sense each other out calmly.

14+ for your guidance and suggestions. We couldn't have taken this leap without your assistance!

[Chaser]

Glad to hear it went well!

But having not been around much lately I'm not sure who Bella is?

And not being so much a cat person I have no idea what the heck tha baby powder was for?

But it sounds like good news!!!

[Dee-O-Gee]

Quick overview Chaser;

Daughter was finishing up her university and moved back home in December bringing her newly adopted kitty, Bella with her.

Kitty has disapproved of Bella's existance and 14+ gave some great ideas regarding a re-introduction that includes gently rubbing baby powder on each kitty to start an equal, fresh relationship between them both.

It was so nice to see Kitty finally come out of her hiding today and enjoy a few short minutes with all of us in the livingroom!

Progress continues......

[Chaser]

Awww...kitty introductions have never seemed like an easy time to me. Best of luck!

[14+kitties]

Yay!!!!!!!
Small baby steps. Even if they are never firm buddies it would be nice if they could be in the same room and not squabble. There is a big age difference between the two of them which at times works against being friends.
My brain was mush last night so I got things a little mixed up. If Kitty is the one who likes spending time in your daughter's room then let her stay there. If things backslide you can always do the re-introductions from there if need be. I thought it was Bella that was always upstairs. For now just let them decide if they want to be in the same room and watch. The only time I would separate them is if there is hissing and excessive swatting going on. Then a "time out" for Kitty wouldn't hurt.
Good luck. I'm glad things were better today.

[Dee-O-Gee]

When Bella first came into our house, she did stay upstairs in our daughter's room. However; after a month, Bella started to scope out the rest of the house which resulted in Kitty running and finding refuge in our daughter's room. Kitty has always felt comfortable in our daughter's room even without Bella here. So we moved all of her food, toys and box into our daughter's room for her comfort.

Since our daughter's return, the room has in fact change drastically in that we moved out the old bedroom furniture to accomodate our daughter's dorm/resident furniture. I'm sure that this change in atomsphere has also triggered this unfortunate behaviour as well.

Today, wasn't a good day. Kitty snuck into our bedroom and did a NASTY job on our bed. Needless to say the duvet cover went into the washer and the duvet got dropped off at the cleaners.

Patience is growing thin.