Hi.
So we have just gotten an 8 week old kitten a week ago.
We have done the scent exchange and also had the kitten in the carrier asleep on the couch while the older 8 year old cat was free to roam.
Most times he just walks past the carrier...other times he will stop and hiss.
When we put the kitty in my daughters room, the older boy will smell the empty carrier...and sometimes will hiss, sometimes just smell.
We now have the kitten (whose a female) in a playpen in the corner of the family room.
My older boy (when he thinks we’re not looking) will go past the pen, stop and do a hiss... BUT... over the last 24 hours, he will actually come out and lay in the family room...about 3 metres from the pen. He still does the walk past and hiss...but he will actually allow himself to fall asleep on his side in the same room.
My partner picked up the kitty and sat about half metre from the older cat. He did a bit of a hiss and with his other hand, my partner went to pat the older cat, while he did nothing to the kitten, he did swipe my partner. My partner feels that that may have been a mistake on his part.....
My kitten is currently asleep in her pen, and my older boy is currently asleep on the floor about five metres away.
So, is it going to plan.....and are we doing the right thing?
Any further advice will be helpful...xx
P.S: while he has hissed and done little growls, he hasn’t swiped at her, or fluffed his body up to seem “larger”....xx