I’ve messed up

[mrwolf1234]

I have a 3 yr old cat who is lovely but mostly an outdoor cat. He doesn’t really like coming indoors apart to sleep. We have moved house, next door only and my cat knows the house as my sister used to live here so he has been in it etc. So we moved out feloway plug ins around the house but then we got a new kitten.

Stupid idea know the kitten is fine and has settled in but my male cat won’t sleep in the house. He comes back to eat and that’s it. He is out all the time.

I don’t know what to do. I know I’ve been rubbish and it’s only been a week from all this happening but I feel so guilty.

What can I do?

Thank you

It may be the heat. And the light nights rather than the new house.

Most of my cats have been sleeping outside for the last couple of months too. It's the weather. How long have you had the kitten?

I presuming it's still early days. I'm sure everything will be fine and he'll start coming in once it gets cold, if not before.

Thank you for replying. And sorry for my awful typing I’m on a tiny phone lol.

We got the kitten Monday and moved last week. He’s been sleeping out since we got the kitten.

I just feel like my cat feels pushed out by the kitten. They ha e seem eachtoher and he just ignore the kitten and kitten does spiky cat.

I feel reassured now. I love my older cat so much. I got the kitten as we love cats as a family and it felt right.

Did you keep the kitten in a separate room for a week and introduce them?

One of mine is put all the time now but i keep her in on a night. Can you grab him amd make him stay in, put the kitten somewhere else?

The warm weather is keeping them out more than usual. If you brought him in at night, would he have somewhere separate from the kItten to sleep? Introduce them slowly.

I did all the 'right' things when I brought my kittens home..kept them in a separate room for over a week, then stairgate so Portia could smell and see them... and she still camped outside for a month and refused to come in!!! And she was 15 at the time so not a fit youngster.

She got over it eventually, and while she doesn't like either of them (three years on!) she ignores them apart from giving Obie the odd slap. Cats are funny creatures and it will take time..in this weather there is no incentive for him to come in, but I bet he will eventually. I had to feed her outside, eveything..I was very worried.

He will stop sulking eventually :)

Mine wasnt a kitten but a rescue dog, my four decamped to the patio, refused to come in the house ate outside like ferals for about three weeks, but one by one they realised it was much nicer indoors and the dog though big was a softy with them so there is hope , as people have said when he comes in to eat shut the door and keep him in overnight

and yes the weather my two older ones are using the place like a hotel only coming in to eat then lining up at the back door to go out again, sometimes they win, sometimes i win