Introducing cat and kitten

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Tomorrow we go and pick up our new kitten. We already have a cat, how do we go about introducing them in the right way? The last thing I want my cat to feel is she's being pushed out in favour of the kitten as that will never happen, she's my baby
Do I shut the kitten in a separate room, we have stairgates on some doors, and let them meet that way through the gate?
Want to do the best for both cats

I would absolutely keep the kitten in a separate room to start with. Scent swapping.
Think the Blue Cross offer advice on this. Get some feliway?
Ensure both have their own escape routes and places to sleep. Food and water separate. And litter tray.
And be careful kitten doesn't get out if big cat is in and out.

Watching this with interest - we adopted a one-year old cat today and we want to get a kitten asap!

We also have a dog - they have sniffed each other (dog held by lead) and the new cat walked forward boldly and swiped at him - she is feisty!! But poor dog

We introduced pair of kittens to put curmudgeonly 6 year old Siamese boy this summer. We kept the kittens separated from him for a few days, swapped their beds over so they had each other scents and used Feliway Friends diffusers.

Initial introductions were made by carrying him into their room ana watching his reactions. Once he became tense we took him out again and then repeated the following day.

We also put separate food and water bowls out for the kittens and have kept this up although they eat his food as well as theirs these days!

They are a proper little family now.

Thank you everyone, I'm hoping she takes to him okay, she used to live with an older male cat until he died so fingers crossed!

i thought "introducing" meant pictures....!

we will need pictures

This video explains it well:

I will post pictures slim just for you ** but had to put off collecting kitten until Saturday as DS is unwell. Thank you everyone for your help

Hope DS feels better soon
I'm sure the kitten will cheer him up
Love the video.

Okay so I pick him up tomorrow morning and I've set up an old travel cot, put all his bits in, thought I could pop him in there to start with so he's not over run with a completely different house, and then our current cat can meet him though the cot as you can see in. See how it goes from there
Obviously he won't be kept in there a long time just a little while to introduce him to our cat and so he can get his scent on all his new stuff and know it's his

Please post back on how it goes, as I'm thinking of doing the same - I have a cat who really doesn't get on with other adult cats, so I was hoping that a kitten (carefully introduced) might be better.

I kept mine in separate rooms for at least a week. My pfbcat was very put out I did the scent swapping etc. When they met it looked so scary I had to utube everything to check the big one wasn't eating her. I didn't dare leave them alone today tbf once they had been introduced it was only a couple of days and they were best friends. They do everything together. For me slowly was definitely the way to go.

Our pair of new kittens have been in their own room for a week. Last couple of days we've let them out to meet old girl and apart from a couple of hisses it's going ok. Helped by the fact the kittens are nervous and seem to get she's boss so she feels less threatened. Planned to carry on allowing them to meet when we are in but to keep in own room when we are out for another week I think.

The suggestion from Jackson Galaxy (look him up on YouTube) is that as part of the scent-swapping process you set up a temporary half-door between their two areas. You feed them both on either side of the half door so they can smell and hear each other close up. Then after a few days you remove the door but still have their bowls a bit separate and just have them together for feeding. You just increase the periods together from there - and yes to separate areas and places to retreat to.

Here I go outing myself again (just name changed ) but here he is the newest addition chase! He's very vocal, just got him home and he's having a nice explore at the moment. My cat is not sure what's going on, she's had a sniff of the empty cat carrier and a hiss tried to give her some chicken as a treat but she turned her nose up and insisted to be let out. They haven't met yet...

And so she doesn't feel left out

ooh look at him in the corner!

sorry, did you say you had a name for him, maybe I missed it and I find scrolling jumps about so badly with these ads...!

Chase my son named him after paw patrol...
He's currently under the sofa finding his own feet, he's very vocal, luckily his new collar has a bell so I can kind of know where he is haha

Chase is cool :)

"He's currently under the sofa finding his own feet"

literally? That would be too cute

I had to take in a stray once, it was tiny....while I was trying to find a cat rescue to call, it went into a tiny gap between the cooker and the wall and then started panicking as it didn't yet have "reverse out" planned in its head!

Haha slime I can just imagine that!
I really want to just cuddle him but he'd rather hide at the moment, he's adopted my ds' little chair under the table and that seems to be his bed now

Has he been ready for any cuddles? My friend fosters rescue cats and it can take a while.

We've had a couple but he's not keen at moment haha
I'm so impressed how well he uses the litter tray, lady I got him from said he was nearly there but he's taken himself to it every time. I was worried about accidents but so far so good!
He loves his food and toys as well.
My cat is a bit put out, but she's up in our room and will be sleeping on our bed as usual so hopefully she knows she hasn't been replaced