Thread: Meet Jolly!

Welcome, Jenny, you've joined a great bunch on the forum. I've only had my MC's since May and October and I've learnt heaps since I joined. Prepare to be amazed, amused, bewildered and besotted when your furry arrives!

I had a similar experience as Rachel when I brought Wicca home - Freyja had ruled the roost for 4 months and didn't take well to her new fluffy companion. Took 2 weeks before the fur settled, another week for the cats to actually become proper friends, and a further week before Freyja decided we'd been forgiven. I was exceptionally stressed throughout (although we'd also had quite a bad flood at the house at the same time Wicca came home, so that didn't help!). However, here we are a month on and the two cats are inseparable, the best of friends and all is well.

There are two schools of thought on the forum regarding the integration of a new kitty.
1) once you've acclimatised the new kitten to litter tray, food and water bowls etc, let it roam the house and mix with your existing cat/s and leave them to get on with it
2) keep new kitty safely tucked away in a room so that it can hear/smell the other cats, and they can do the same, via the closed door. Then after a few days, let the new kitty out with supervision.

My breeder and several friends recommended suggestion 1, and that's what I did. At the end of week 1, I thought I'd made a big mistake and was so anxious that I might have changed Freyja's personality forever and had no idea how to fix it, so hung in there for another week. By the end of week 2, we were over the worst and I was pleased I went with the 'let them get on with it' strategy. Should I ever be in the same position in the future, I would probably take the same approach.

Is Jolly your gorgeous little bundle of fluff's name? He's very cute - got that lovely kitten face! And huge ears!! Looking forward to more photo's.