Thread: Maine coons and friends

and the great thing is that she will keep discovering - again and again and again! endless fun! ;-)
I am more and more convinced that the only thing you need about introducing a little friend is time. At first she'll hiss at him, she might hide for a little while - but she'll come round eventually and you'll end up finding them cuddling cosily together one day.
My mum's cat who was very silly (only liked my Mum - everyone else was prayed to bog off and leave her human, in her territory with her own mice and spiders for her to hiss at) never took to the little lost kitten we tried to introduce though. May be the difference between her and Ripley - other than Ripley is a nice, well bred MC and my mum's cat was a grumpy gutter cat in the first place - is that Ripley stays inside whereas my Mum's cat had the option to go sulk outside. She stayed outside until my Mum finally gave the kitten away. And then she came back in and cuddled with my Mum like nothing happened going like "kitten? what kitten?" Sigh.

I had a similar experience to yours, Alekto. I begged my mom to rescue a kitten; we brought it home and the introductions were horrible. Our resident cat was my baby, but she was a fierce hunter and a tough street fighter. Her mom was feral and it took her quite a few years to really calm down. There was no way we could have trusted her around a kitten after we saw her reaction, so we re-homed the kitten. If we had done any real research for introducing them, maybe it would've turned out differently. I do think a lot of it, though, was due to my cat just being extremely territorial. For years I thought all cats hissed and growled if you pet them while they were eating- my MC's actually start to purr. I think the general MC temperament is definitely suited to socializing, so I'd give it a go.

One Maine Coon is never enough. They are such wonderfully loving, sociable and entertaining cats, why not have another one?