We have two cats, unrelated but rescued together 9 weeks ago. About a year old. They spent the week before we took them home in the same pen, but hadn’t met before that. One is very shy but as soon as she started to gain confidence they’ve got on fine, playing together.
Until today. We let them out for the first time. Bold cat has had a good nose around, up on the fences and into other gardens. Shy cat went out for about a minute, decided it was all a bit much and came back in. And now apparently her sister is all wrong and she keeps hissing and growling at her.
What Google has told me is that I must now separate them and do slow reintroductions … I can’t really see how to do that in our house, short of shutting someone in a bedroom. And given they met in a pen as complete strangers and learned quickly to live together, surely they’ll come round?
I say ‘they’ - bold cat has no issues, and would just like to play with her sister. They’ve not come to blows (yet). Any advice or reassurance welcome!